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Literature

My Teenage Obsession Gets a Second Life and a Queer Adult Spin

“Had my teen girl self been sure of herself and comfortably queer as I am today, she may not have become so obsessed with advice columns in the first place.”

Kim Wong-Shing May 20, 2021 1 Comment
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Literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Spontaneous Touch

Rediscovering spontaneous touch through reading, starting something new, the secret feminist history of the Oxford Dictionary and more.

Ryan Yates May 20, 2021 1 Comment
Three people side by side. Sasha on the left has brown skin and a braid. Fei in the middle has hair shaved, wears a dangly orange earring. Trang on the right has hair shaved and wears a red hoodie,
Gender Visual Art

These Portraits Depict the Radiance of Asian Trans Leaders

Trans Vietnamese artist, Jean Pham, shares an original portrait series, spotlighting and revering trans Asian leaders as subjects in the midst the heightened violence in both Asian and trans communities.

Jean Pham May 20, 2021 8 Comments
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Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

Queer Tarotscopes for Gemini Season 2021: What Do You Have to Learn about Choice and Connection?

Gemini and the Lovers want us to interrogate our desires, to recognize what is truly driving us forward, to celebrate the spaces and places and ambitions and communities that encourage us to be our full, complete selves. What does it feel like to be seen, truly recognized for the person that we are?

meg May 20, 2021 10 Comments
Dickens faces "the camera" in this one panel comic. They are in a green shirt, against an orange and grey background, creating the colors of the Palestinian flag. They say to the camera: "A power imbalance between two entities, that leaves one of those entities perpetually fighting for their rights and their lives, is not a ‘complicated matter’ that requires a graduate degree to push back against."
Webcomics

Foolish Child #96: It’s Not Complicated

It’s Genocide. Even when it’s enacted and funded by the United States of America.

Dickens May 19, 2021 48 Comments
A collage of two photos: Sara Ramirez on the left and Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte on the right.
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Sara Ramirez Joins the New “Sex and The City,” Guess You’re Watching After All

They’re playing a lusty non-binary queer comic. Plus trailers for: Feel Good, Betty, Black Lightning’s series finale, that St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein comedy, and more!

Heather Hogan May 19, 2021 1 Comment
Brown feet walk through the bright green grass with red flowers strewn about. The person has on a green dress like fabric, but it's not shown in clear detail.
Gender

What You Think A Woman Looks Like

Recognizing that I was never going to fit comfortably into my American peers’ idea of masculine or my Indian family’s idea of feminine meant freedom to throw out both scripts and write a new one.

Nat Razi May 19, 2021 28 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

“Pose” Episode 304 Recap: Home Free

I’m wrestling with holding a desire to respect and honor the stories of love, resilience, sacrifice and unfair, unjust, cruel death that is the truth of queer history and simultaneously, frustration at media that seems to prioritize trauma narratives and spectacles of pain over world making and future dreaming.

Chinelo Anyadiegwu May 19, 2021 3 Comments
Demi Lovato is Non-Binary: Pop Star poses in front mirror in three photos, in a green suit, an orange suit, and back to the green. In each photo they have their signature pixie haircut.
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Demi Lovato Is Non-Binary and Proud, Pop Icon Says “Keep Living In Your Truths”

“I am proud to let you know that I identify as non-binary & will officially be changing my pronouns to they/them moving forward.”

Carmen Phillips May 19, 2021 15 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Yes, Samira, “All the Way Tired” Seems like the Right Vibe for a New Parent

Personally I am scared of how gorgeous Hayley Kiyoko looks!! Also, I am thrilled to report that the soccer MILFs continue to be MILFs and Quinn Wilson, ever the innovator, using her dog camera to make selfie art.

Christina Tucker May 19, 2021 7 Comments
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Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Even Lesbian Penguins Are Shacking Up, I Guess Everyone’s Ready For Hot Vax Summer

Police banned from NYC Pride until 2025, the joy of Black hair, the forgotten women who changed the face of journalism, we’re (probably) really gonna lose Roe v. Wade this time, and the expert COVID-safe guide to a horny, healthy summer.

Carmen Phillips May 18, 2021 12 Comments
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Movie Reviews

The Mitchells vs. The Machines: Abbi Jacobson Is The Queer All-Ages Hero We’ve Been Waiting For

The Mitchells vs. The Machines is genuinely hilarious and actually for really real gay.

Heather Hogan May 18, 2021 11 Comments
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Book Features

“We Are Watching Eliza Bright'”s Sixsterhood Is a Collective Narrator of Queer Possibility: An Interview with A.E. Osworth

When queer voices — especially those of trans people, and Black and brown people — are so frequently ignored or actively silenced, centering a narrator made up of them turned out to be an active effort.

Lindsay Lee Wallace May 18, 2021 2 Comments
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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Sue Bird Grapples With Being Hot Mom Age

The WNBA is back! Owl House is back! Janelle Monáe joins Knives Out 2! Good news abounds!

Heather Hogan May 17, 2021 2 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

“Batwoman” Episode 214 Recap: And Justice for Some

I believe in loving loud and hard, but also holding the things you love accountable, especially when you know they’re capable of being Great. This show has given us greatness and I believe it still can, and that’s why this hurts so much.  

Nic May 17, 2021 16 Comments
Screenshot from Legends of Tomorrow Episode 603: Zari is surrounded by glitter and extending costume wings at the end of a singing performance.
TV Show Recaps

“Legends of Tomorrow” Episode 603 Recap: Zari’s Got Talent

Ava and the Legends end up entering a reality competition singing show on their quest to save Sara, who is poisoned on a mystery planet.

Valerie Anne May 17, 2021 12 Comments
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Podcasts The L Word

“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.”

Riese May 17, 2021 3 Comments
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Movie Reviews

“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.

Drew Burnett Gregory May 17, 2021 2 Comments
In a hand-drawn image in the colors of greens and dark navy blues, a young Asian person with short hair stares at their own image sitting against a mirror inside of a closet.
Identity

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?

Diamond Yao May 17, 2021 5 Comments
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Quizzes

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.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya May 16, 2021 31 Comments
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