Baopu #50: Too Awesome for Mom and Dad
“My parents fight so much. And when I spend time with them I become miserable and toxic, just like them!”
“My parents fight so much. And when I spend time with them I become miserable and toxic, just like them!”
“for a second i was like…………….did i break this channel
with my confession”
The Sinner’s Second Season has a black lesbian lead and a very compelling mystery. Plus updates on: Coronation Street, General Hospital, Younger, The Young and the Restless, and Killjoys!
This Friday, we’re getting ahead of the game and making a playlist together for cuffing season! Add your favorite song to our collaborative playlist and talk about it in the comments!
“All my favorite lesbian love stories start when the hats align.”
Topics include the Avital Ronnell case, “blackqueer heartbreak and forestalled nostalgia,” airplane hijacking, disaster tourism, Otto Warmbier, Myers-Briggs, the war on drugs, stripping in Portland, what it’s like to be black and work in fashion, the War on Drugs and more!
“Intense but very brief sobbing in the shower while you get ready for work because your roommate never leaves the fucking apartment and it’s the only time you can.”
“At the end of the prologue, I had to put the book down, because I had broken out in ugly, heaving sobs on a Monday night in the dog days of summer, after a hot and heated and emotionally heavy July eclipse, drinking a glass of rose in my apartment in Harlem.”
“The debate found Cuomo clumsily trying to paint Nixon as nothing more than a deranged actor only to be met, repeatedly, with the passionate rejoinders of a lifelong activist and New Yorker who graduated from the public school system, sent her own kids through the public school system, and rides the crumbling New York City subway every day.”
In the pool hall, my sweetheart and a close friend tease me one night: “unimpressive,” “pure luck,” “you aren’t that good.” They were trying to get my ire up so that an hour later when I told them to stare into each other’s eyes as I fucked my sweetheart’s body, I would mean it with a snarky competitive vengeance, I would mean it with power and control, I would be pushed to take what I want.
Everything you need to know before her new TV show!
Thirteen of the queerest films from Kanopy, a database you can access through your local library!
A new history of BDSM. Plus women in translation, the Asian and Asian American literature explosion and more.
As I quickly learned from the jump, when two queer Latinas are trying to get married — something that sometimes feels like is unheard of — there’ll be some bumps in the road.
We have searched high and low (brow) and located all the lesbian and bisexual characters you can expect to find on new and returning television shows this fall.
Also, Lena Waithe gives you the eye and Samira Wiley will totally hold that for you.
Models of sex education that focus on what is “age-appropriate” for children inevitably leave LGBTIQ youth in the dark about their own identities.
Plus: Marceline and PB in the Adventure Time finale, Alex Danvers is maybe getting a new love interest, Roseanne’s gonna die in the Connors spin-off, LGBTQ rep in kids’ shows, rebooted TV with POC characters, and more!
Lesbian mumblecore is practically its own genre at this point, but there’s something extra sweet and authentic about this movie.
When the sex we want is criminalized or considered more “perverted” than the sex cisgender heterosexuals are engaging in, a handkerchief in the back pocket is a quiet way to show off our sexual deviancy in a world that doesn’t want to see it.