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Music

Almost Famous: Dalice Malice

A queer trans* folk singer from Chicago and maybe now also the butchest femme you know.

Crystal April 10, 2013 3 Comments
First Person Issues

Trans and Schizophrenic: When Diagnosis Impacts Transition

If he had read my medical records he would have known that my first psychotic break was exacerbated by my fear that I would never be recognized as a woman.

Sam Ashkenas April 10, 2013 58 Comments
Gender

Trans Woman Denied Admission to Smith College: Why “Just Checking Female” is More Complicated Than it Sounds

Smith College’s inhospitality toward trans women ultimately threatens, rather than upholds, their institutional image as a women’s college.

Sarah Giovanniello April 9, 2013 45 Comments
Recipes

Get Baked Basics: Chicken Stock

Stock photography in its most basic sense.

bcw April 9, 2013 20 Comments
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Cats and Feminism and Cartoons! Wheeee!

Ali’s Team Pick: Feminism, cats and cartoons all in one happy place.

A.E. Osworth April 9, 2013 11 Comments
Life

Idol Worship: Ten(ish) Questions with the Coquette On Getting Your Sh*t Together

“I’ve been doing this shit for half a damn decade, and I honestly couldn’t tell you how any of it happened.”

Carmen April 9, 2013 35 Comments
Community

15 Funny Things Rachel Said Recently

“five years from now when i’m living in a tree writing tracts about how monsanto is part of the illuminati cabal on recycled seventh-generation paper bags, you can pinpoint this as the moment it started.”

Riese April 9, 2013 47 Comments
Crafts & DIY Projects

Make A Thing: Embroidered Cards

Embroidering a birthday card will impress people but no one will actually know it actually takes zero crafting skill.

Hansen April 9, 2013 15 Comments
Politics + Activism

The Future’s Not Here Yet: Neither Gay Rights Movement Nor Feminism Has “Succeeded”

“Do u think part of the reason gay rights has moved forward while women’s rights backwards is b/c gay rights includes men’s rights?”

Rachel April 9, 2013 34 Comments
Geekery

RIP MSN Messenger

When someone saw you through puberty, coming out and university, you have to pay your respects. Goodbye dear friend.

Kristen April 8, 2013 46 Comments
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Guest Playlist: Kaki King’s Australia Mix

Kaki King made you a playlist. It’s a playlist made for you, by Kaki King. A Kaki King playlist.

Kaki King April 8, 2013 17 Comments
Love + Sex

VIDEO: Lesbian Proposes Dressed As Blaine Warbler, Glee-ful Musical Number and Adorableness Ensue

A bunch of cute girls dressed as prep school boys serenading a lady about to be proposed to by another lady? This is why same-sex marriage matters.

Riese April 8, 2013 40 Comments
Queer Fashion

Style Thief: How to Dress Like Bomb Girls’ Betty McRae

Betty McRae is the hottest Canadian bomb factory worker in all of TV Land. Let’s strip her down.

Lizz April 8, 2013 15 Comments
Community

Straddler On The Street: Maddy

Maddy is the president of Q, Barnard’s only queer student group, and now she’s running for president of the Student Government Association! Go Maddy, go!

Vanessa April 8, 2013 7 Comments
Food Lists

Ode to My Pantry: Vinegar

What goes best with fries? Why vinegar and limericks of course!

Kristen April 8, 2013 19 Comments
Society + Culture

Sunday Funday Is Predicting a Queer Future

The queers are taking over: in sports, on courts, and even in Texas.

Carmen April 7, 2013 21 Comments
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Dancing Naked

This week on NSFW Sunday: all vaginas are awesome, what it’s like to act in a lesbian sex scene, interviews and more.

Ryan Yates April 7, 2013 19 Comments
School

On Being Gay at One of America’s Most Anti-Gay Schools

A former student’s tale of coming-out as gay at Liberty University raises interesting questions about the place of LGBT people in conservative, evangelical Christianity.

Rose April 6, 2013 24 Comments
Geekery

Life-Saving Tech For Your Boobs: This Bra Detects Cancer

This bra can detect cancer. It could detect cancer long, long before our usual methods (mammagram and…uh…mammagram) would normally even be recommended. It could improve the visibility of screening for cancer.

A.E. Osworth April 5, 2013 20 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #70: We Confront The Mysteries and The Terrors of Life Through Them.

Topics include Vice, meth, makeup, Bally’s, Wal-mart, celebrity culture, sex abuse, Girls of Riyadh, Zanesville, and sex in 1950!

Riese April 5, 2013 9 Comments
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