Brittani’s Video Party: Jenny Slate, Robyn, and Lena Dunham are Mean Elves
A “Mean Girls” mash-up, Jenny Slate’s webseries, a Robyn robot, and the new season of “Girls” are going to party because it’s already past their bedtime so might as well.
Protecting the Protectors: UN Moves to Increase Protections for Women Human Rights Defenders
Significant opposition to a UN resolution to protect women HRDs raises questions about how to balance local contexts and values with universal human rights, as well as remind us of the very real risks that these women face every day.
BREAKING: Beyoncé and Jay-Z Announce Temporary Vegan Diet, Queers Rejoice
“This is basically all I’ve wanted all my life,” Rachel Kincaid, Senior Editor of Autostraddle, told me.
Trans* Activists Degender Wesleyan Bathrooms, Face Charges and Fines
“We demand that Wesleyan University stop segregating bathrooms along gender lines and provide all-gender bathrooms in all buildings in the University.”
Also.Also.Also: Bill O’Reilly Should Eat Some Sriracha and Shut Up And Other Stories We Missed This Week
From prom to the Mormon Church, folks got a lotta ‘splainin to do.
7 Massive Injustices LGBTQ Immigrants Face In The Detention System
Here are some things you need to know from a report that details the inhumane treatment faced by LGBTQ people currently detained in the U.S. and the fight to resist these massive injustices.
Sunday Funday Is Giving Thanks for Queer Folks and Dianna Agron’s Fake Mustache
I just don’t get blackout on the holidays like I used to.
Also.Also.Also: Sara Quin Has A Lot of Feelings But She Was Bound 2, and Other Stories We Missed This Week
What if we’re all wrong about Kanye West? What if we’ll never understand him. What if he and I share a soul.
“It Was Personal”: Why I Don’t Take Part in the Trans Day of Remembrance
“There are a thousand ways to die from being trans. But they’re only included if they can be made as sensationalist as possible. Never mind that all these things kill you just the same.”
The Whole World Can Learn Something From Southeast Gaysia and the ASEAN SOGIE Caucus
What’s far too often missing from the narratives of global activism is the nuances of local contexts and agency of “oppressed” people, who don’t simply sit around waiting to be saved. Here’s where the ASC comes in.
Sunday Funday is a Total Queer Vixen
Laverne Cox makes us proud, Illinois marries us off, and then Martie comes out to play.
Spilling the Sweet Tea on Queer Organizing in the Deep South
We got chills and teary eyes in the first session when leaders from the southern based LGBTQ advocacy organizations we invited told us simply that we didn’t have to leave the south. I can’t remember ever having heard anyone tell me that so plainly before.
American LGBT Workers of Color Are Part of a Broken Bargain
For queer women of color, intersectionality isn’t just a “concept” or a “framework” for theorists to use for mind exercise — it’s a lived experience.
Brittani’s Video Party: M.I.A. Has a Dance Party for Singles
GoldieBlox feminist toys, M.I.A.’s new video, a lesbian dating expert, and a woman about to have surgery have a dance party in video party.
Also.Also.Also: Liz Cheney’s Not The Best But Bill O’Reilly’s The Worst and Other Stories We Missed This Week
Frida, as always, is flawless.
LIVESTREAM: Celesbian-Studded Online Telethon For Abortion Access In Texas Starts NOW
Kate Moenning, Holly Miranda, Natasha Lyonne, Lea DeLaria and more from the cast of Orange is the New Black will be talking about vagina justice, so you better tune in and watch online.
More Than Words: On the Word “Gay” and Definitive Dilemmas
Which should change first — society or the dictionary?
Not Just A Flicker: The Rise Of The New American Left
Grassroots leftist organizing is happening all over the U.S. right now, across generations, race, gender, sexuality and class.
Sunday Funday Looks Great In A Tuxedo And Gives A Great (Gay) Tip Every Time
Now put a smile on, betch.
Recent EU Court Ruling Might Make Life Less Miserable For LGB Asylum Seekers
Last week’s ruling by the European Court of Justice is being hailed as a “landmark” change for LGB asylum seekers – that is, if you’re willing to overlook how asylum seekers in the EU are regularly detained, demonised and deported.