Demi Lovato is pansexual, Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird keep making headlines (and commercials), Chyler Leigh is coming back to Grey’s Anatomy, Lil Nas X is dancing with the devil, and more in today’s Pop Culture Fix!
I promised myself I wouldn’t spend this entire recap yelling, “BLACK WOMEN THOUGH!!” but in this scene (and another later), we get three Black women sharing screentime, and two of them are queer main characters on a network superhero drama. I didn’t know I was allowed to want this when Black Lightning entered my life, and for it to be happening again? Teenage Nic is screaming right now.
Riese: So then we cut to Dylan’s condo or wherever.
Carly: Wherever Dylan lives.
Shannon: Her corporate housing.
Riese: Yeah, her corporate — Dylan has her tea because she’s like, “I’m entertaining a British woman at 11:00 p.m.”
Carly: “So I must make tea!”
Shannon: “Crumpets and tea.”
Trans people have been reported as experiencing an epidemic of violence. But why does the violence happen in the first place?
Louisiana is in the top three states for the highest amount of anti-trans violence. Remnants of laws from the 1800s continue to trap trans people in a cycle of abuse.
You knew it was only a matter of time.
What does it mean to be sexually authentic? What will happen to our boundaries after vaccination? Remember Tumblr porn?
Never doubt someone with lesbian moms!
Shit is starting to get real for girls, guy, and gays of Purgatory as we creep through the fog toward the final episode.
Instead of seeing Asian American, queer, immigrant women as “in-between” cultures, we are in fact witness to a world far more connected.
Plus updates on Station 19, Genera+ion, Legacies, and Nancy Drew!
Just remember: it only gets harder from here on out!
This week’s Extra! Extra! brings you news on a smattering of issues: more anti-trans legislation and rising transphobia in the U.K. alongside a ruling in Japan striking down the ban on same-sex marriage, more perspectives on the shooting in Atlanta, what exactly is happening at the U.S. border, an early look at the Chauvin trial and more.
It’s easy to feel like you’re the only one who still doesn’t feel okay when you’re grieving and dealing with mental health challenges in a culture that doesn’t know how to make space for either; we wanted to take this time to be honest about what we’re struggling with most at this point so at least you know you aren’t alone.
I tried to lead restorative justice in my own sexually abusive (former) t4t relationship. I did this because I am an abolitionist and know people are more than the worst things they do. What I didn’t know at the time: we should have not been the ones to facilitate the process. With leftist language co-opted, I didn’t know I was allowed to leave; I didn’t know I was allowed to have boundaries.
Netflix’s “Deadly Illusions” is the worst best most bananas homoerotic thriller currently begging for your attention and if you are gay and hate yourself, you should answer its siren song.
“I’m not picking raptor! I know what will happen if I pick raptor!”
We were hoping not to have occasion to revisit this conversation as a one-year anniversary, but we do, so here we are, exploring the question: What do you feel like you’ve taken away from this past year of pandemic life?
Here’s why the filibuster is a Jim Crow relic, Raquel Willis and Richie Shazam on imagining our queer and trans futures, Megan Rapinoe playing soccer in a suit is today’s thirst trap of choice, and celebrating Jessica Walter with 13 of Lucille Bluth’s most iconic moments.
I’m simply begging these characters to go to therapy.