The Mystics guard chose to sit out the 2020 season in order to be in the fight for racial justice and because, as she told The Athletic, “I can’t compartmentalize having the luxury of dribbling a basketball while people who look like me are being shot and killed every single day, many by the hands of police.”
Finally, Danielle and Joanna are reunited are years of radio silence. Will Joanna’s voice still move Danielle as strongly as she remembers?
There’s a difference between domination as a way to take control or claim power over another person — the way certain lovers have done with me — versus domination as a way to provide comfort and care, and to grow one’s power without harming anyone else.
The public library is in the unique position to pick up where public education leaves off—to succeed where public education fails. It’s time we start rethinking what a library can be.
Ramirez quietly updated their pronouns on Twitter and Instagram a while back, but this is the first major post since then to address their gender directly. Congratulations Sara, we’re so happy you’re living more authentically every year and showing us all the way!
I can confirm that no matter what you’re looking for — YA, non-fiction, memoir, romance, literary fiction, comics, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, historical fiction, poetry — there are queer and feminist books on this list that you will love!
In my own myth, New York has been the cornerstone of what shaped me, finally allowing myself to be in my queerness. While the New York I inhabited and the one of Audre Lorde’s life looked radically different, Lorde’s relationships and the women she loves and lusts for each leave her fuller than before.
The relationships between boredom, work, art, pandemic, and banana bread; the bourgeois romance of pandemic isolation; read books about “disreputable women” by women writers and more.
“I really don’t need to be in my house simmering over the racist comments on violence against Black people.”
Samira Wiley, Jamie Clayton, Theo Germaine, Heather Matarazzo and so many more are coming together to tell the stories of the early days of the LGBTQ civil rights movement in the U.S.
It’s all so well done, and between the intense female friendship conversation and a few other things I can’t mention without giving too much away, I felt like I was seeing aspects of my queer life I don’t usually get to see on screen.
How have you defined (or not) your role over time? Has it changed, did you at first think you “were” one thing and now you ID differently? how did that feel and what did it bring up? How do you ID now, and where do you see it as part of that ~ journey ~?
Not only is this film more than its labels because Sandoval sees her character’s humanity — it’s more than its labels because Sandoval is so good in all her roles. This is a patient and artful film, nuanced in its writing and direction, and filled with stellar performances.
The X-Files creepiest cases, Janelle Monáe on Michaela Coel, Amber Benson is hype on the Buffy reboot rumors, The Powerpuff Girls is getting new and gritty, this Kate McKinnon Tiger King biopic sure is happening, and more!
Bella Thorne is VERY into thirst trapping lately, Indya Moore even makes a mask look good, and Amandla Stenberg take us on a guided tour of Copenhagen.
Did Denise Richards cheat on her husband with Brandi Glanville? Are the best liars the ones who are very bad at lying? Let’s delve into the reality TV show where logic and kindness go to die.
These lesbian penguins! “Bring It On” nostalgia! And some vintage Carmen Maria Machado for your reading needs!
A spectre is haunting queer sexting — the spectre of “duck.” Here’s how to fix your autocorrect and what to add to your dictionary for better queer sexting.
YES I’M CHEATING RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE DON’T @ ME.
With a total of five lesbian, bisexual, queer and trans Black women characters in the main cast, Lena Waithe’s “The Chi” certainly made history this summer. But did making “The Chi” gayer turn it into a better show?