Results for: Feel good
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Taco Tuesday: Finding Home Again
In the very first edition of a biweekly column all about tacos, Yvonne writes about her personal connection to the delicious, Mexican super food and her search for damn good tacos far away from home.
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Follow Your Arrow: Musician and Furniture Maker Sean Desiree on Small Steps Towards Big Dreams
Musician Sean Desiree — who alone makes up all parts of the indie band bell’s roar — explains how they juggle being a musician by day with running a furniture-making business by night, how they learned to deal with rejection, and what’s it’s like being a queer person of colour in an industry and genre dominated by straight white men.
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PHOTOS: Amber Rose’s Feminism is For Women Who Have “Been Through Sh*t” and I’m Here For It
Amber Rose’s Slutwalk truly embraced and celebrated the duality of women’s lives in the modern world, and it was a radically inclusive event — one with an explicit policy against all forms of oppressive language and behavior as well as an explicit intent to include, lift up, and acknowledge the unique and compounded struggles of trans women, women of color, queer women, poor women, and differently abled women.
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Read A F*cking Book: Tanwi Nandini Islam’s “Bright Lines” Adds Color To LGBTQ Fiction
In a multigenerational, transcontinental tale, Bright Lines weaves together issues of gender and sexuality across cultures, migration, in/dependence, family secrets, conflict and tragedy, and well, botany.
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“Her Story” Stars Wanna Tell Real Trans Love Stories
Talking with three of the stars of trans-created webseries Her Story about love, representation, staffing a set with trans women and so much more.
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GBT Pods Won’t Keep Trans and Queer People in Immigration Detention Safe
Jennicet Gutiérrez, Rita, Karolina and Joselyn tell us what real support for undocumented trans women looks like.
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At The Diner With My Father
Sometimes the only way to remember the good times is to recreate them yourself.
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Interview With My Queer BFF: Yvonne Interviews Mary
“Yup, we were just lesbians in a library. You know, just hanging out.”
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Drawn to Comics: First Black Female-Owned Comic Shop and “Mooncakes” Are Great for WOC in Comics
If you’re a fan of women of color-owned comic shops or webcomics about queer witches and werewolves of color like “Mooncakes,” I’ve got some good news for you!
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We Cry With Charleston: How I’m Healing as a Black Queer Christian
“Now more than ever, I think it’s important to say alabanza to those who were slain, to lift their names up in prayer and to remind those of us still living that Black lives do matter — they’ve always mattered and will always matter.”
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Being Lesbian While Black & How Five African Women Saved My Life
There’s just something about feeling inauthentic, impossible and insignificant that really makes life a burden, and that’s where I was for years. I was sick of living and wavered between a fear of and desire for death. I’m better these years; so far so good. I’m still here, I’m Rwandese, I’m queer and these are my mentors.
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“The Same Difference” Breaks Down All The “Rules” of Being Butch
The Same Difference takes the lid off of the many boxes that we as a community put ourselves into in respect to gender.
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In Lumberjanes Issue #17, Jo Comes Out As Trans and It’s So Awesome
“Jo’s trans identity was just another integral part of her character, and it developed very naturally — she was a leader, she was VERY passionate about being a Lumberjane, she was also trans.”
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Comedy Crush: Phoebe Robinson Loves Comedy, Captain Planet, Turkey Jerky
Phoebe Robison is a “comic, writer, and connoisseur of all things brignorant.” (That’s a combination of brilliant and ignorant). Phoebe has appeared on Last Comic Standing, Broad City, Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, and Late Night with Seth Meyers.
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How Dare They Do This Again: Stonewall Veteran Miss Major on the “Stonewall” Movie
“These people need to be acknowledged for the role they played. And that they existed! It’s so important that they at least realized that Marsha and Sylvia existed and that they did so much to help the community.”
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A Trans Woman of Color Responds to the Trauma of “Tangerine”
“Why is it that trans women of color have to experience so much violence to remember that they have each other’s back?”
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The Speakeasy Presents the Magic of These Revolutionary QTPOC Friendships
Our QTPOC besties are vital to our existence so we wanted to create a list filled with our stories to celebrate just how magical they are.
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Fool’s Journey: Cristy C Road’s Next World Tarot is the Deck of your Queer Punk Dreams
“Aside from bringing another deck to the world, I’m excited to create a deck that illustrates a blend of mind and body outcasts. The deck originated as a ‘queer deck’ but its definitely grown since that. I want to focus on people’s cultural and subcultural backgrounds, I want to blur fundamentalist spirituality, but maintain a lot of the traditional concepts behind the images.”
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Speakeasy Night At Klub Deer: The Playlist
The QTPOC Speakeasy is throwing a house party/pajama jam on Mt. Feelings and everyone’s invited! Come for the throwbacks, stay for the dance-off. We even put together a mini-playlist for you, bb.
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The QTPOC Speakeasy Salon: What About Your Friends?
Drop into the Speakeasy Salon for advice on love, to show off your fresh shape-up, or to just trade some jokes with your people. And if you missed your appointment, we’ve got some highlights and QTPOC cuties right in here waiting for you!