Bishop wrote seventeen drafts of this poem, so that’s one hundred and thirty six iterations of master and disaster. The losses pile up in a life, and each time you survive them, you have proven to yourself you can withstand more.
If you’re in the market a whey protein smoothie, you’re in luck! That’s what you’re getting on this week’s “To L and Back.”
Plus: She-Ra season three (featuring Geena Davis), non-binary Android emoji, certified Mommi Diane Keaton wants to play gay, the battle for gender-inclusive passports in the UK, and more!
The importance of small weak everyday social ties, the difference between the narrative you build about a relationship and its truth, why PornHub buying Tumblr won’t save it and more.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN???
“If I was a drink, I’d be bagel store coffee: better in the morning, culturally Jewish, a lil dull, a lil sweet, always reliable.”
This would be a solid Mother’s Day breakfast plan if you’re celebrating tomorrow! Otherwise make it anytime but especially for beachside mornings, slow weekends at home, and any day when waking up queer in this world could use a little sweetness.
Plus updates on: The Good Fight, The Chi, and Grey’s Anatomy!
I need your help. Maybe you need my help. Let’s all hang out and give each other good and bad advice!
“If Katie McGrath could spend her one precious month of Supergirl hiatus to go on the other side of the globe, where every spider is a killer, to kiss women on screen again, I can face another day of my gay life.”
Topics include Law & Order, LA bookstores, podcasts, Jared’s Galleria of Jewelry, Barilla pasta, the millionaire hermit, the stolen kids of Sarah Lawrence and so much more!
Pell’s Val is a lesbian antique shop owner from Portland with a new set of knees and thirst for young love.
As a queer person, it’s a relief to watch work like this. It gives us permission to just be free, to just be queer, to just be ourselves. That’s what great queer cinema can accomplish.
Distinctly queer camp is increasingly part of Riverdale’s DNA. The gothic-glam horror keeps on outdoing itself.
“When it first came out I loved the show for its humor, for its raw portrayal of depression and grief, and because, like any rational person, I’m deeply in love with Phoebe Waller-Bridge. But it wasn’t until about a year into my transition that the show started consuming my thoughts.”
Amy Poehler’s punch-drunk gal pal comedy features longtime SNL writer Paula Pell as a lesbian vintage shop owner with a brand new knee and fresh desire to fall in love.
What we want is not to be brave, but to be free.
“You can have friends or you can correct people’s grammar.” Plus poems about soft bodies on a planet in peril, an argument for binge reading and more.
We’re allowed to expect more from our stories in 2019.
Plus: Watch Laverne Cox get ready for the Met Gala, Suranne Jones’ gay struttin’ on Gentleman Jack is on purpose, the CW wants a full season of Batwoman, Disney’s live-action Lady & the Tramp will replace the racist cat song with a new Janelle Monáe track, and more!