Topics include Dollar Stores, Black media, Peak comfort TV, a 16-year-old model in the 90s, Hamilton, racial disparities in coronavirus cases, Ziwe Fumudoh, the primaries and so much more!
One thing that’s been great about quarantine is that everyone has gotten to spend more time with the robots in their life!
“I wish I were a Magnificent Melissa, but if we’re being honest, I’m at BEST a Smiling Rob.”
Four scenes from my life as a trans femme.
Broken up with during quarantine, exploring your sexuality in quarantine, feeling concerned about being “okay” in quarantine, sage advice for parents of a non-binary kid and more!
Life moves fast. Time is a warp. It’s possible that you missed some of these tension-filled erotic S L I C K moments. Join A+ so you can read the slow, tight tension — right before the frenzy — that I love to revisit.
“She raises both hands to the orchestra and she smiles into the audience. She nearly breaks her face in two because she knows, she really knows, that she did it. She’s the star.”
Or are they the same thing??????
Elena Delle Donne’s ongoing struggle with the WNBA, a collection of some of the most moving and queer tributes to Naya Rivera, Mrs. Frizzle’s queer legacy, and more.
I swear the Blockbuster cashiers knew I was gay before anyone else in my life.
Of 118 major studio releases in 2019, 15 included gay men, eight included lesbian or bisexual women, and zero included trans characters.
The past and future of trans narratives, a new Black-owned bookstore in the Twin Cities, updates on everyone’s pandemic diaries and more.
Law and Order: SVU presents Olivia Benson as a savior of survivors, and as a kid she was my hero. Later, I came to acknowledge that the cops cannot, will not, and do not want to save us — they’re harmful and unnecessary.
Anne Lister is that dyke.
Glee’s cast remembers Naya Rivera, She-Ra showrunner Noelle Stevenson is non-binary, Scooby-Doo’s Velma is a lesbian, and HBO Max is making a When Katie Met Cassidy film.
“What right do I have to feel grief over this? It’s not my loss.”
Also, Melissa King’s dog is Top Chef, Rahae is single handedly bringing back hats, and Janet Mock remembers Paris.
These vibrators are strong. Really really strong.
The WNBA’s abbreviated schedule for the season was released, new music from The Chicks is only a few days away after 14 years, a fund for Black trans women artists, and did the American Girl company steal the identity of a nonbinary astronomer for a doll??
Part of decentering romantic relationships from our lives, part of being independent, part of seeking a kind of individuality that cisheteropatriarchy denies, has to include removing a value judgement from these very things.