“Just because something is constructed as a social category, doesn’t mean that it’s not enormously meaningful. It doesn’t mean that we haven’t built a whole damn civilization on it.”
Lots of stuff happened to gay people this week! Mostly good, some bad! It’s only Tuesday, but so far, the future is bright.
We did our own highly scientific research to determine where in the country you’re most likely to meet other queer ladies, hang out with other queer ladies and admit that you’re a queer lady in public!
Rachel’s Team Pick: Trying to make a list of only 10 badass women writers is really hard.
Lizz’s Team Pick: Tip #2: Play to the top of your intelligence. “I am trying to write a book. The book begins with me as a college student, a nineteen-year-old girl. I did a lot of dumb shit at that age.”
“What we’re asking you to do is vote in favor of civil rights. Not what your district says,”
Go ahead girl, put yo poetry in it.
So many short story books have at least a little touch of queer — like these from Dorothy Allison, Mary Gaitskill, Thisbe Nissen, Amy Bloom and more!
Do you spend way too much time on this website? Here’s how you can keep on doing that, but call it “work.”
“Less than half of the teachers surveyed believe a gender nonconforming individual would feel comfortable at their school. “
To keep you motivated, feeling yourself and letting anyone within beat thumping distance know you are too.
Phillip Parker was 14 years old. He was gay and he lived in Tennessee and now he is dead.
This week on NSFW Sunday: lesbian erotica, the G-spot, corsets, and the Lingerie Bowl.
Also, does anyone else want a sandwich?
At some point, between the night where my friend walked to her ex’s house with my keys, phone and money in her boot, the night where I sobbed to strangers about losing my credit card in the bathroom and the one where I held my friend’s hair as she vomited onto the street, I realized “Oh shit, this sucks.”
Comic book style drawings of queers and quotes in curvy font provide a face and a narrative for queers who live under governments trying to squash their rights, build fences to keep them out and create legislation for swift deportation, among other things.
Actually, this post contains Top 10 Candy Situations You Can Buy at a Drugstore and 6 Underrated Candy Situations, so the headline doesn’t even approach the amazingness of this post.
Gay marriage is inching closer to a legal reality in America thanks to mayors, and in Washington thanks to Microsoft.
Etta James, crooner of “At Last,” and “The Wallflower,” died today. Etta, you will be missed.
” I did not feel one with the human race in that moment. That was the moment it had a direct effect on me & my rights – that is when I decided to make this documentary.”