Radicalizing Cathedrals Way Before Pussy Riot: Meet The Top 10 Feminist Saints
Sometimes you just need someone to pray to when the radio won’t stop playing Blurred Lines.
18 Keen Insights On Lesbian Sexual Activity From 1966’s “The Lesbian Handbook”
“It is true that sapphism is also to be met with in quite young girls, but only if they live in houses of prostitution or in girls’ colleges.”
16 “Hard-Core Facts” About Lesbians From 1963’s “A New Look At The Lesbian”
Conversations among their own group consist of sexual gossip, certainly in excess of what we might have designated as “good taste.”
Masters of Homosex: 9 Vintage Books That Lied About Lesbians
Are you the college girl, the office girl, the career gal, the prostitute, the matron, the man-hater, the bohemian, the frigid wife, the dull dyke or the unsuccessful heterosexual?
More Than Words: The F-Word, Pt. 2: Feminists(??!??)
“Melaine Randall has said that “the day we start defining feminism, it has lost its vitality.” I’d parry with “the day we start defining feminism, we get an enormous headache and end up subjecting readers to like 1500 words of confusion, because it is impossible.”
A Muslim RuPaul At The Dawn Of Islam: Tuwais and the Mukhannathun
The mukhannathun are an inspiration for queer Mulims, and queer non-Muslims alike. They’ve certainly inspired me.
More Than Words: Which Witch is Which?
“[No one can break] the spell laid by language on this word.” Happy Halloween, witchez.
More Than Words: Amped For Camp
Are all camp-related words fun to say? Maybe.
Idol Worship: Selena, Queen of Tejano Music
Selena, the Queen of Tejano Music, bidi bidi bom bommed her way to my heart when I was just a kid and my love for her will never die.
More Than Words: The F-Word (Pt. 1) — Féministes
The first self-defined feminists, boobs, and a lemonade ocean.
Idol Worship: Coretta Scott King
Celebrating the First Lady of the Civil Rights Movement.
More Than Words: Adjective Invective
In which the hysterical, nagging, irrational Jennifer Weiner won’t take “strident” in stride.
More Than Words: Pronouns Pt. 3 – They Said/Ze Said
The grammatical is political.
More Than Words: Pronouns Pt. 2 — How’d Gender Get In Here?
“I’d skipped a really basic question: why do some languages, including English, have gender woven into them in the first place?”
More Pride, Less Prejudice: 5 More Bitches for the Banknotes
Here are some women – queer, feminist, or courageous long before either of those terms was invented – whose names ought to be common currency, and on it too.
Idol Worship: bell hooks Was Right
After the Trayvon Martin verdict, one particular (12-year-old) bell hooks quote blew up the Internet. It’s not the only part of her philosophy that still makes sense.
More Than Words: So Androgynous
The word that gives “you do you” a whole new meaning.
Idol Worship: What I’ve Learned From Amelia Earhart
“I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried.”
Idol Worship: Brenda Howard, Bisexual Curmudgeon and Mother of Pride
“She could be difficult, she could be stubborn, she could be outrageous and she always stood up and spoke out for bisexual people and challenged biphobia even in the most hostile environments. Blessed Be.”
More Than Words: Notes On (A-)Camp
Sideways oxen, promiscuous Protestants, Susan Sontag and now us.