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Rainbow Reading: A New Story Collection From Carmen Maria Machado Is Coming!
Plus, book awards for Torrey Peters, Sarah Schulman, Darcie Little Badger, and more!
Sundance 2022: “Girl Picture” Has Queer Romance, Figure Skating, and Plenty of Teen Angst
These stories are reminiscent of other coming-of-age movies, but the performances and specificity of the characters — as well as the clever structure — elevate the film as a whole.
I Loved “Archive 81” — Then I Found Out Melody Got “Straightwashed”
By erasing Melody’s queerness, Archive 81 gains nothing and loses a lot.
Foolish Child #112: Encanto
Every Madrigal sister’s journey deserves to be over analyzed into redemption!
Pop Culture Fix: HBO Max’s “Batgirl” Casts Ivory Aquino as Alysia Yeoh, DC’s First Trans Movie Character
Also! The problem with How I Met Your Father, why you shouldn’t write off Che Diaz, how Whitney and Robyn fell in love, and more!
I Used Instagram Mantras As Therapy — And It Worked
They served as daily messages your best friend should tell you when you’re hurting — and in desperate need of a silver lining.
No Filter: Keke Palmer Is So Stunning and Charming, She Should Be the Host of Everything on Earth Forever!
Also: Cynthia Nixon is doing Fashion now, which I am very pro!! And I cannot get over the fact that Niecy Nash and Jessica Betts are matching in this random selfie? Color coordinated!
Also.Also.Also: Ah Yes, the Scammer-To-Girlboss Pipeline
A fun lil read on how scammers became cultural icons, a celebration of Tatyana Ali’s ‘90s fashion, an ode to plant parents, and who’s all gay at the winter olympics.
As a Black, Fat, Disabled Person in Love, My Monogamy Feels Radical
For me, navigating polyamorous dynamics with white people is inherently taxing and painful as a Black person.
Freeform’s “Single Drunk Female” Finds the Funny in Sobriety
Single Drunk Female is a show about starting fresh, not just about drinking or not drinking.
It’s Your Anniversary: Rent Was My First Class On Anti-Capitalism
I felt even more galvanized by the queer anti-capitalist characters I had come to know so well — and felt seen in the small choices I made to work towards an anti-capitalist future.
You Need Help: Your Future In-Laws Won’t Come to Your Wedding
It’s obvious you love your fiancé very much, and want to protect them from any agony the world wants to hurl at them. Unfortunately, you mostly can’t. But here’s what you can do instead.
Sundance 2022: “Mija,” “Sirens,” and “Nothing Compares” Find Hope in a Hopeless World
This year at Sundance there are three documentaries about women in music — women who are tasked with navigating the hostile industry and our even more hostile world.
Pop Culture Fix: One Year of JoJo Siwa Being Gay
Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne are making a second lesbian movie, Tessa Thompson and the many layers of identity, Jasmin Savoy Brown is having a moment, and more!
Eight Queer Punk and Counterculture Books Set in the 90s
90s queer punk / counterculture / DIY books coming up!
“Euphoria” Episode 203 Recap: Great Tits and Kurt Cobain’s Haircut
It’s a big deal to have a trans girl character who is wearing a binder! I wish I trusted Sam Levinson to get into it more and to do it well.
Morgan Thomas On Weaving Genderqueer History Into Their Debut Short Fiction Collection “Manywhere”
“I was really interested in writing about specifically Southern and genderqueer characters, in part because I felt like I hadn’t seen myself in both the literature and in the sort of ‘mythos’ of the South. So I wanted to fill in that gap.”
Quiz: Which 70s Soul/Disco Diva Are You?
We often romanticize the 70s for the music and the fashion — the two best parts about the decade. But could you really hack it as a badass babe in that era?
Very Special Gay Episode: In 1986, Golden Girls Created the Most Enduring Lesbian Joke on Television
10 years before Ellen, 25 years before Santana (and if you’re keeping track — 35 years from today), Blanche Devereaux launched the joke that just will not die.