Also in today’s Pop Culture Fix: Danielle Savre and Stefania Spampinato hanging in a hot tub, a DND homebrew campaign featuring an all fat + queer cast, TV’s colorism problem, Dominique Jackson discusses mentoring queer youth of color, and more!
This week we’re talking about the political strife in Haiti, the US’s messy exit from Afghanistan, the development of new COVID variants, your bimonthly legislatively institutionalized moral panic report — and the attacks on citizens’ rights plus the attempts to hold them at bay that are rocking Texas legislative chambers.
Hong Kong’s drag scene, Free Britney, how to find an LGBT-friendly pediatrician, Candace Parker and more!
MJ Rodriguez’s mom reacts to her Emmy nom, the trailer for Fear Street: 1666, and would you let the cast of Gunpowder Milkshake kick your ass?
“It’s astounding, and it’s not just for me. I’m winning for so many people out there, so many babies out there, the generation that comes after me — that’s who it’s for, it’s not for me.”
Benedetta is lesbian nun camp melodrama, Ryan Murphy’s Pray Away is fucking harrowing, people are still watching the heck out of Legend of Korra, and more!
Elite sports are failing Black women, readings on Sue Bird and Lil Nas X, the anxiety of girl tripping this summer, and Let Elle Woods Be Gay You Cowards!
Plus! The the trailer for Fear Street: 1978, a verrrry interesting piece of Batwoman casting news, the USWNT Preath wondergoal that wasn’t, and more!
It’s *official* official that Sha’Carri Richardson will miss the Olympics completely, the dangers of being Very Online (ha!), and bigots have finally accomplished their goal of gutting the Voting Rights Act.
Grimes says her next album will be a space opera about a lesbian A.I. romance? Nah. Also, behind the scenes of Batwoman season two, the search for Renee Montoya, the PLL reboot fills in its cast, why Fear Street is built around a queer love story, and more!
Japanese pop superstar Utada Hikaru came out as non-binary, getting pregnant when you’re 40 and your partner is trans, and please — do not shove garlic up your nose!
Abbi Jacobson’s A League of Their Own found their coach, EW drank three rounds with the women of The Bold Type, the power of teen girls in shaping pop culture, and more!
So many articles about the Lesbian Avengers! Also, Pride has always been a glorious mess, how the pandemic got us addicted to longing, and Black activists are taking the voting rights battle right to Joe Manchin’s backyard.
Also: That Batwoman finale, Loki is (finally, canonically) bisexual, close out Pride with some happy lesbian movies, and never enough Buffy.
Fighting for America’s last 21 lesbian bars, the dos and don’ts of Hot Vax Summer, and let’s go bisexual Loki!
Harley Quinn is sexy and screaming in The Suicide Squad trailer, plus a Disney+ musical Pride event, a bisexual buddy for iCarly, Sharon Stone has some feelings about Meryl Streep, and more!
An official directory of 54 queer-owned bookstores across the US, Navajo Nation celebrates its first official Pride Parade, women in the craft beer industry, and Onlyfans is leaving the sex workers who built it behind.
I thought about what it meant to be part of Black sex working community and our long history of organizing, mutual aid, protests and movements. I thought about what it meant to stand beside one another screaming at the top of our lungs.
Plus also, Naya Rivera’s final role, teasers about Work in Progress and The Boys, lots of Batwoman goodness, and more!
It’s been a busy few weeks with heartrending news developments centered around the violence of residential schools in Canada against Indigenous people, many major decisions from the US Supreme Court, ongoing crises in Texas, and the continuing spread of COVID-19 and deadly variants around the world.