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.
Get Baked Basics: Chicken Stock
Stock photography in its most basic sense.
Cats and Feminism and Cartoons! Wheeee!
Ali’s Team Pick: Feminism, cats and cartoons all in one happy place.
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.”
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.”
Make A Thing: Embroidered Cards
Embroidering a birthday card will impress people but no one will actually know it actually takes zero crafting skill.
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?”
RIP MSN Messenger
When someone saw you through puberty, coming out and university, you have to pay your respects. Goodbye dear friend.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Ode to My Pantry: Vinegar
What goes best with fries? Why vinegar and limericks of course!
Sunday Funday Is Predicting a Queer Future
The queers are taking over: in sports, on courts, and even in Texas.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Jill Bennett Is Back With New Comedy Series, “Second Shot”
Jill Bennett is BACK starring in a new comedy series, “Second Shot,” which she also co-created and produced.
The Comment Awards Will Be Your April Fool
“This week was pretty uneventful but it was warm enough to eat lunch outside and I learned that a group of owls is called a parliament so things are looking up.”