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Also.Also.Also: Sara Ramirez Has Consciously Uncoupled from Their Husband, Is Available For Your Queer Activist Date Dreams
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.
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Also.Also.Also: Legally Blonde Came THIS CLOSE to Having a Gay Ending, What like It’s Hard?
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!
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Extra! Extra!: All Eyes on the Legislative Battle for Texas
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.
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There Were 122 Lesbian, Bisexual, Queer and Trans Candidates in the 2022 Midterms, Here’s How They Did
A red wave was coming, they told us. But they didn’t account for a new record for out LGBTQ candidates, who ran the table all across the country.
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Chicago’s Black Sex Workers Hold Each Other Up
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.
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Also.Also.Also: It’s Not Your Imagination, Your Mom Really Does Need That Therapy
Brandi Carlile on her morning routine, guess who’s IRL gay from Falcon and The Winter Solider, and these anti-trans sports bills aren’t just transphobic — they’re racist, too.
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Also.Also.Also: Get Ready for Our Alien Overlords, I Hope They’re Hot
115 queer authors share the books that changed their lives, queer farmers, dealing with post-pandemic FOMO, and… why are we all talking about U.F.O.s right now?
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Also.Also.Also: This Lesbian Basketball Wedding Is the Love Story You Need Today
Andrea Mingo and Danielle Robinson tie the knot, NASA forbids TikToks from space, your cat might be aloof but she actually really loves you, and more!
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The Revolutionary Anger of Asian Women
Our anger can be a tool of resistance in a post-pandemic world. Instead of burying or relinquishing it, we should learn to use it.
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Extra! Extra!: How to Begin to Process the Unfolding Horror of COVID in India?
COVID returns to the forefront of this week’s Extra! Extra! as we look at the outbreak of COVID in India and the threats posed by variants across the globe. We look at the one thing that’s proving stronger than COVID: capitalism and how that’s impacting our recovery. The team also examines new developments on the immigration and criminal justice fronts and ponder what it means to hear the president tell transgender Americans he’s got their backs.
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Also.Also.Also: Queer Poet Aurielle Marie Gifted Lizzo’s Dress After Viral TikTok, Its the Black Joy for Me
The viral TikTok with all the joy you need. Plus: an ode to queer cross-stitch, who’s looking out for activist burnout, and the Respect for Marriage Bill is
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Also.Also.Also: GQ Declares Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird “The Most Beloved Power Couple in Sports”
One Million Moms is boycotting this American Girl doll for having lesbian aunts (lol what!?!?), a history of Black Queer Chicago and AIDS Activism, and Serena Williams the GOAT has so many trophies she can’t keep them straight.
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Hallmark, Dabur and the Politics of LGBTQ+ Inclusive Advertising
I would argue that it becomes impossible to really talk about LGBTQ+ rights without delving into religion because religions the world over have long called us sinners. This is as true in America as it is in India.
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On R. Kelly and the Question of Justice
As someone who has taken her rapist to court, I know that justice looks different for everyone.
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Also.Also.Also: Happy Birthday Audre Lorde and Toni Morrison
The queer art for divorce, advice on cohabiting with your girlfriend for the first time (should you split the rent?), the librarian war against QAnon, Carmen Maria Machado on Phoebe Bridgers, and more going into your weekend!
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Also.Also.Also: Kehlani Said “You Wanna Know What’s New about Me? I Finally Know I’m a Lesbian.”
Arkansas has now officially passed the most extreme anti-trans law yet, Tracy Chapman is the queer mentor you’ve been waiting for, ranking the 25 Best Muppets, and what happens if you lose your vaccination card?
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Extra! Extra!: What in the World Is Happening with the Vaccine Rollout?
This week’s Extra! Extra! looks at some sobering and some hopeful news related to sex workers’ rights, coverage of the insurrection in the context of the ongoing impeachment trial, an update on the COVID-19 pandemic and America’s fumbled vaccine roll out, and more.
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The Elf On The Shelf Is A Cop: We Need ‘The Anti-Fascist On The Bookcase’
The Elf on the Shelf as we knew him is dead. We need the Anti-Fascist on the Bookcase.
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Extra! Extra!: What Do We Make of the US’s Latest CDC Masking Guidance?
This week we look at the latest horrifying anti-trans legislation passed in Tennessee, the ongoing failures of America’s criminal justice system one year after George Floyd’s murder, the latest round of violence in Gaza, disparities in vaccine access and more.
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Also.Also.Also: It Turns Out “Josie and the Pussycats” Were Right about Everything
Kehlani really is a lesbian, just to be EXTRA CLEAR, queer Asians making their own community spaces for to love and protection, and meet the Instagram account dedicated to queer Arab history and pop culture.