“To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 608: Last Word
“You can trust someone not to kill you with a knife, but still not trust them with your feelings.”
“The Retreat” Is a New Kind of Lesbian Horror, Full of Catharsis and Dykey Swagger
Despite the real-life horrors queer women face, horror cinema has largely shown queer women as predators. The Retreat attempts to change that.
How Tam Found Empowerment in the Closet
What are you to do when you are a Vietnamese asexual and aromantic woman who grew up in white, cishet, francophone-dominated Montreal in the 1980s and 1990s?
What Chain Restaurant Appetizer Are You?
This quiz will have you wishing you could drive to a suburban strip mall to plop down in a booth and order off a plastic menu.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Would Love It If We Made It
Pelvic pain during sex, changing experiences of love, the best solo sex of your life and more.
Reine #21: I’m Your Dad Now
Lesbians make the best father figures.
Boobs on Your Tube: When We Say Sparks Are Flying on “Legacies,” They Are LITERALLY Flying
Plus updates on New Amsterdam, Charmed, Nancy Drew, and Top Chef. Also “Gen Q: Season 2″… this summer perhaps?
“Shrill” Gives Fran the Queer Joy She Deserves in the Final Season
I look at her and I see my killer body, my effervescent personality, my sweet determination, and even my quietest fears.
Mythic Quest’s Queer Season 2 Storyline Gets Gamer Girl High Score
The Mythic Quest queer storyline features Ashly Burch as game tester Rachel who has a big lesbian crush on her co-tester, Imani Hakim’s Dana.
Okay Tina Fey’s “Girls5Eva” Really Is Super Great and Super Gay
Girls5Eva is honestly hilarious — and it’s a lot easier to feel like you’re in on the gay jokes when you’re actually represented on-screen.
So You Want to Wear Shorts This Summer
We covered the return of the 90s and the 70s in our last edition, and you can expect to see that trend continuing here! The 90s influence is especially strong in the athletic short space — think Princess Diana and her iconic bike shorts. The 70s vibes are coming in hot with prints and patterns, which I personally am digging!
Trans Fiction, Trans Imagination: Notes on (AcroYoga) Camp
Sitting there, eyes closed, I could feel the subtle movements of the two people I was touching. To my right—someone I’d never met. I’d glimpsed basketball shorts, ragged tee, short hair. Muscular, athletic body. My hand on an unfamiliar, living knee.
The Comment Awards Are Really Into the Void
“The last quiz revealed I am Anne Lister’s boots. Now my gender is ‘a tiny piece of arugula stuck between Tilda Swinton’s teeth.’ I can see where this is coming from but I am starting to feel slightly concerned.”
Also.Also.Also: Alison Bechdel Is Working on a “Dykes to Watch Out For” Animated TV Series!
Oprah wants you to listen to “To L and Back” — which means we are close, personal friends with Oprah now! Also: the radical queer history of Atlanta, the UK bans conversion therapy, and the WNBA is back for its 25th season.
I Still Can’t Believe Marvel’s Never Heard of Bisexuality
Captain Marvel is so gay the writers had to add a line of dialogue to try to convince the audience Maria and Carol slept in different rooms. You know, on account of the house they shared and the daughter they were raising together.
S L I C K: Syd Sysco Volume LXIX: At the Feet of the Goo Empress of 61 Cygni
It was her. Her thighs, her stomach, her chin, her eyes, her balls, her lips, her long fingers. Her breasts like year-long tear drops hanging against a backdrop of soft white clouds in the sky. She sat down on the stone facade and her thighs spread like water.
16 Fictional Queer Redheads You Can’t Handle
Carol Aird knew what she was talking about when she said you can’t handle a redhead.
The Complicated Nature of Sex for Asian Women
Our trans subject editor Xoai Pham speaks to Jayda Shuavarnnasri, Thai-American sexuality educator and resident #SexPositiveAsianAuntie, about sexual violence, myths about polyamory, and what it means to take up space as Asian women.
“Supergirl” Episode 607 Recap: Nightmare Before Hiatus
In the mid-season finale, Lena and Kelly join Alex and the team and face their worst fears as they make one final push to save Kara.
Ellen DeGeneres Is Ending Her Talk Show Amid Endless Backlash (But Reportedly Not Because of Backlash)
I’m grateful for Ellen. And I hope she does continue to try to do as much good as she can in the world. I also hope, along the way, she learns that calls for civility have most often been used to silence the oppressed, that kindness is not justice, and that being nice isn’t enough.