Lez Liberty Lit: Values-Driven Art Making
The past and future of trans narratives, a new Black-owned bookstore in the Twin Cities, updates on everyone’s pandemic diaries and more.
Yes All Cops, Even Olivia Benson
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.
My Top 10 Television Characters: Heather Hogan, Who Loves a Tough Exterior and a Gooey Marshmallow Center
Anne Lister is that dyke.
Pop Culture Fix: Ali Liebert Is Making the Hallmark-y Lesbian Christmas Movie of Your Sugar Plum Dreams
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.
Foolish Child #76: You Don’t Need to Justify Your Grief
“What right do I have to feel grief over this? It’s not my loss.”
No Filter: Frankly, 2020 Owes Us These Photos of Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris
Also, Melissa King’s dog is Top Chef, Rahae is single handedly bringing back hats, and Janet Mock remembers Paris.
8 of the Strongest, Rumbliest Vibrators for When Your Love Affair With the Magic Wand Ends
These vibrators are strong. Really really strong.
Also.Also.Also: Will Thailand Become the First Southeast Asian Country to Legalize Same-Sex Partnerships?
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??
You Need Help: How Do I Stop Getting Emotionally Attached to My Pandemic Crush?
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.
Criterion’s “Portrait Of A Lady on Fire” Release Is Incredible — We Still Deserve More
Portrait of a Lady on Fire is only the third film in the Criterion Collection to feature queer women that’s actually directed by a queer woman.
Naya Rivera Is Dead at 33, Glee Star’s Body Recovered from Lake Piru After 6-Day Search
Naya Rivera was a firecracker, a superstar, a singular talent who simply could not be relegated to the background.
What Is Even Happening in Andrew Cuomo’s Bananas New Covid-19 Poster for New Yorkers?
“I can only describe my current emotional state as 🙃 “
“Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts” Is the Best Queer Animated Series You’re Not Watching
Or maybe I was the only one not watch. Either way, we should all be watching!
Tana Wojczuk’s “Lady Romeo” Profiles Shakespearean Actress Charlotte Cushman, Leading Man of the 19th Century
What kind of choose-your-own-adventure occurs when a queer lady with an unbending will and a penchant for leaping about onstage with a dagger strapped to her thigh is born in 1816 and refuses to espalier herself to convention? Tana Wojczuk’s “Lady Romeo” would like to tell you.
Pop Culture Fix: Janelle Monáe Wants to Play Storm, Preferably in the “Black Panther” Sequel
Also: Wynonna Earp’s season four episode titles, the real puppers of Last of Us 2, Keke Palmer covers Cosmo, your BSC personality based on your sign, and more!
Sunday Funday Is Swimming With Valentina Sampaio
Happy Sunday! Celebrate the swimsuit issue, watch a short film by FKA Twigs, learn about the founder of the MCC and find out which Pokémon character was supposed to be a lesbian??! Let’s get this bread!
NSFW Sunday Is Bruised Like A Peach
What to do when you’re too sore from a spanking to sit, being solo poly in quarantine, whether or not coconut oil can cure yeast infections and more.
It’s the 6th Anniversary of our A+ Membership Program! Thanks to You, We’ve Come So Far
Happy anniversary, babes; we wouldn’t want to do this with anyone else.
Reine #10: Building A Kinder World
We are going to build a kinder, safer world.
Boobs On Your Tube: Sorry, “The Bold Type” — We Can’t Agree to Disagree
The Bold Type is romanticizing repugnant viewpoints, like hardline immigration and conversion therapy, and treating those issues like they’re things we can just agree-to-disagree on. Also: an inexplicable In The Dark finale.