Playlist: Proudly Trans, Proudly Horny
Pride means owning our horniness!
Reine #35: Some Good Things
Life is too short to always fold your laundry. Sometimes you need to read books in the sunshine instead.
Needle Play Brings Me Back into My Body Over and Over Again
Editor’s Note: This essay includes descriptions of piercings with hypodermic needles and blood in a BDSM context and brief references to self-harm. Needles are an edge. They encompass many spheres and much stigma, reminding us that we’re flesh sacks filled with fluid a mere pinprick can pierce. IV drug users and those who are tattooed […]
“Fire Island” Is a Perfect Summer Reminder of How We Find Our Families
The Bechdel test has always been dangerously limited when implemented carte blanche, especially when talking about people of color.
Boobs on Your Tube: “Roswell, New Mexico” Proves Multiple Queer Couples Can Co-Exist!
Plus updates on Charmed, Legacies, and All Rise!
Obsessed: Spiritual Guru and Alleged Arcturian Alien Teal Swan
Culty spiritual leader and self-proclaimed genius healer Teal Swan is the subject of Hulu’s “The Deep End,” Gizmodo’s “The Gateway,” and also my nightmares
Grab Your Backpack (No the Other One): Here’s a Pride Survival Pack!
Here are eight books, seven poems, six people to follow, five ways to support black trans people, four places to donate, three shows, two albums, two games, and one tool to get you ready for Pride 2022!
Tobin Heath Says “Gay Vibes,” Christen Press Says “No Days Without Lesbians”
Just a couple of BEST FRIENDS in matching clothes. :)
So You Want To Wear a Bathing Suit
Behold a bunch of suits that have the structural integrity to stand up to some serious wave action and that are absolutely gonna keep you looking fresh and stylish!
The Comment Awards Are Legs Out and Faces Painted for Pride
“Please do the sunscreen first, THEN the face paint, or you may end up with tan lines that say BI BI BI on your face! Just for instance!”
“Tahara” Is a Queer Teen Comedy with Death and Depth
This is exactly what I want from contemporary low-budget queer filmmaking.
Member2Member Advice: Pod Swap
Members, come share your podcast and Youtube recommendations with each other!
“Nevada” and the Multiverse of Sadness
This is how it feels to come to art too late. It’s no longer an experience of immediate connection, but one of processing, of rewriting.
Rebel Wilson Has a Girlfriend, Her Very Own “Disney Princess”
Happy Pride!
I Have To Choose Between Being Disabled and Queer
In queer spaces, I cannot be disabled. In disability spaces, people ask if my spouse is my sister. I hope that someday I don’t have to choose.
How To Survive a Miscarriage by Marathoning 168 Episodes of “Survivor”
One thing you have in common with every contestant on the classic CBS reality television competition program Survivor is that you are not pregnant.
070 Shake Is Free In “You Can’t Kill Me”
If I could describe 070 Shake’s sophomore album in one word, it’d be freedom. She embraces the infinite.
Playlist: Summer Songs To Dance to During Pride When You Have an Unbearable Crush
“Girls Make Me Wanna Die,” a new single by The Aces, dropped today. So we made a playlist all about queer crushes.
In Our Own Time: Queer Temporality, Pride, and Diana Goetsch’s “This Body I Wore”
Lately I’ve been thinking about the concept of “straight time” — the way a life unfolds, or is expected to unfold, within heteronormative frameworks.
Pop Culture Fix: Ariana DeBose Is Crushing on Evan Rachel Wood in Westworld’s NYC-ish New Season
The Motherland: Fort Salem season three trailer, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is adding a non-binary character, Ms. Marvel is finally on Disney+, and more!