Today, in honor of our 13th birthday this month (!) and the extraordinary fundraiser Nicole is leading to keep us going (hopefully for 13 more years and then some!) we are hosting a rare and special open thread! Get in here!
111. I wrote hundreds of love letters to Janet Jackson. I never sent them, but was convinced that we would end up married some day.
Photo albums, HTML customization, and choosing your profile song all offer endless possibilities to express yourself.
Also! Mary Lambert crying while covering Melissa Etheridge is for sure the gayest thing you will see today, Tegan and Sara are so excited about the New York Post’s lesbian fashion op-ed, and Stephanie Beatriz recorded Encanto’s Waiting on a Miracle while she was in labor!
Want to revel in everything Gigi? Drag her relationships with Bette and Dani to the top of the Generation Q region. Did you share the internet’s disdain for Miranda and Che? Drop them to the bottom of the Grown region. Make whatever choices for whatever reason seems right to you.
And frankly her IG does not clear up a whole lot?
Kristen Arnett on Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill is your must read of the day, there’s a boycott of ubiquitous organic brand Amy’s Kitchen you’ll want to know about, and we’re all angry at work — now what?
“The process of writing for me is the great work of life. It is the nexus where everything that matters to me intersects.”
Astrid & Lilly Save the World is a fun, silly sci-fi show with two fat female heroes, one of which is queer and crushing.
You don’t need to have one particular vibe, type, or style. You don’t have to have it all figured out now, next week, or next year.
“I felt disconnected from my art because I had part time and full time jobs that took up most of my time in the world. I wrote on scraps of paper during lunch breaks and tried, at the end of the day, to have an hour or so of “creative time” for myself.”
I don’t know about you, but every single year when the cold depressing months come around, I cheer myself up by putting together a list of potential crafts I could do to pass the time.
There are so many names I have been called that I now have taken on for myself. Call it reclaiming. I’m not sure what it is but it has largely to do with the work I’ve done on accepting my body for what it is, whether I love it or not.
Plus! Say goodbye to your friends (Baby-Sitter’s Club), Abby Wambach and Glennon Doyle present Brandi Carlile with a trophy, Sophie and Sian’s first kiss on Corrie was Brooke Vincent’s first kiss for real, and more!
Eve vents to a stranger about her ex (Villanelle) and Villanelle seeks therapy about her ex (Eve). Tbh, Villanelle and Eve should do couples therapy.
Being 13 is somehow this pure, unending, embarassing hell. Even still, some moments from our 13-year-old pasts stood out to us as particularly cringeworthy.
Their approval puffed me up like the topping on a lemon meringue pie, but I didn’t have the heart to tell anyone that it was gluten-free.
Remember when Eve served Villanelle shepherd’s pie? And then Villanelle demanded the recipe from Niko? I certainly do.
Most of us probably didn’t have a girlfriend at 13, so now is your chance to cuddle close to your “best friend” and tell her how you really feel!
The Six Chicks? The mere premise of wanting to skip from 13 to 30? There’s a reason this iconic film connected with me so deeply when I was a closeted preteen.