Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe are making the best TV right now, the average human is streaming eight hours of content these days, Wanda Sykes on her coming out story, a whole new Dolly Parton music video, and more!
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Also, Gaby Dunn is still hot, Rhea reminds me of outerwear, Stephanie Beatriz dyes her hair and dogs continue to be the best friend celebrities need in these times.
Are we at the start of a new protest movement? Also: Happy Birthday Dolores Huerta, sex workers should request pandemic relief, and some Animal Crossing news you can use.
As a known homosexual, my two greatest skills are yearning and making playlists.
Now is a great time to escape to outer space, don’t you think?
Betrayal burrows into brains. When cheating comes to light, there’s a tendency to obsess over the minute details. You’ll replay things in your head, wonder how they were able to get away with certain things, and sometimes even be hard on yourself for it.
This week’s Extra! Extra! COVID-19 takes a look at the particular threat the virus presents in communities with low access to health care and how the economic fallout from social distancing is making the situation even more dire for marginalized people.
Also: a One Day at a Time deleted scene you’ll love, Brandi Carlile pays tribute to John Prine, Killing Eve and Grey’s writers talk about their upcoming seasons, a Disney family singalong, and more!
Freeforms’s new alternate-universe elite witchy fighters series didn’t waste any time getting gay, gay, gay.
A masterpiece of heterophobia, in screenshots.
Yearning, grief, and tension fuel the show, which is at its darkest now.
Happy Sunday! Let’s read good books, watch good TV, and celebrate those who are working hard for us.
Don’t text or try to get back together with your ex; it’s okay to say no to Zoom hangouts; and stop sneaking out for lockdown sex.
Spin the Bottle does NOT fulfill social distancing guidelines but everything else is on the table; let’s get our Disney Princess sleeping bags out and get this STARTED.
“Ink revolutionized our way of speaking, the ideas of the dead are recorded in ink, the dead speak through ink, it just had this really mystical element to it.”
My kitchen process is a lot like collaging. I like to ask myself, “If I were at a party in my fridge, who would I want to pull into an unexpected and fascinating conversation together?” In the end, what I decided on was a cookie convo flavored with browned miso butter, bacon fat, cinnamon and cocoa, studded with walnuts and bacon bits.
Celeste reconnects with the energy of the universe during quarantine.
We finished reading “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler. At its core, the book is about embracing truth and change, which is especially true now — when our world seems much closer to Butler’s science fiction. We’d love for you to talk to us about it!
This week’s Extra! Extra! takes a look at a variety of human rights and governance issues which have existed for a long time. Some of these problems are being exacerbated by or taking on new dimensions because of the pandemic. Others are flying under the radar as the COVID-19 crisis has drawn our collective attention.