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Friendship

Getting in Bed With Kristin: Making Friends, Making Dates, Making Podcasts

Plus: Sam in a basket!

Kristin April 26, 2019 4 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #288: They Emerged To Twist Thirst From A Cloying Wish Into Full-Bodied Desire

Topics include Ramona Quimby, female thirst, dentistry, Christian Moms who make money selling printables on their blogs, murderabilia, women outside, the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and more!

Riese April 26, 2019 12 Comments
Culture

Lesbian Visibility Day 2019 Roundtable: Celebrating Our History and Our Future

“Society does not respect women, but that’s the whole thing about lesbianism. Women are literally the whole thing. Women are my foundation”

the team April 26, 2019 39 Comments
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Taylor Swift Didn’t Come Out But She Sure Did Make a Gay Music Video

Rainbows, a thousand women in suits and ties, unicorns, cats on cats on cats.

Heather Hogan April 25, 2019 55 Comments
TV Reviews

Let’s Talk About Star Trek Discovery: Hot Women in Space

Riese and Kayla talk about that Season Two finale, pros/cons re: Discovery in general, our hopes for the future, Tig Notaro in space, Three Hot Mommies and more pressing Star Trek processing.

Riese April 25, 2019 36 Comments
Music

Queer Your Ears April 2019: New Releases from Queer & Trans Artists

It’s a great time to be queer and/or trans music fan! There was SO MUCH incredible music to cover this month.

Abbie Jones April 25, 2019 14 Comments
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Literature

Lez Liberty Lit Is Under, and Lost

Carmen Maria Machado, writers’ roles in addressing climate change, why you don’t need to publish a book by 30, a liberated Cinderella, and more!

Ryan Yates April 25, 2019 1 Comment
Book Lists

8 Crime Books Featuring Women Loving Women & Other Queer People

These awesome eight crime books, including mysteries, thrillers, and true crime, all feature queer women!

Casey April 25, 2019 16 Comments
TV Reviews

Charmed’s Witchy Women of Color Lesbian Love Triangle Deserves All Your Attention

With just two episodes left this season, I made you a Charmed Cheat Sheet, filled with all the important details of this topsy turvy magical world.

Carmen Phillips April 24, 2019 21 Comments
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Foolish Child #44: Con Artist

“It looks like a museum for straight white women in here.”

Dickens April 24, 2019 6 Comments
LGBT History Sponsored

Edie Windsor Is This Week’s Modern LGBTQ Trailerblazer #WCW

“Marriage is a magic word. And it is magic throughout the world. It has to do with our dignity as human beings, to be who we are.”

Heather Hogan April 24, 2019 26 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Tessa Thompson and Brie Larson Broke The Lesbian Internet With Their Red Carpet Canoodling

Plus: Robyn Crawford is writing a book about her life with Whitney, Younger’s season six trailer, Peabody Awards for Killing Eve and Pose, Barbara Lopez is hyped on winning March Madness, and more!

Heather Hogan April 24, 2019 9 Comments
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Evan Rachel Wood Is a Muppet IRL

In which we hit the pool with Janelle Monaé, enjoy Tessa Thompson cosplaying as Prince, and try to figure out what the hell’s going on between Emily Hampshire and Teddy Geiger.

Stef April 24, 2019 10 Comments
Movie Reviews

“Daddy Issues” Is a Very Queer Very Good Movie

The first IMDb user review for Daddy Issues is titled “Heterophobic movie.” I cannot argue. I also cannot complain. May we blessed with an entire career of heterophobic movies from this properly queer filmmaker.

Drew Burnett Gregory April 24, 2019 6 Comments
TV News & Trailers

Queer to Queer: A Live Comedy Read from the Very Lesbian Diaries of Anne Lister

Calling all nerdy sluts in Los Angeles!

Heather Hogan April 23, 2019 20 Comments
TV Reviews

“Clink” Hopes to Step Into the Women’s Prison Drama Gap Left by “Wentworth” and “OITNB”

If life’s taught me anything, it’s that even the straightest-seeming woman can shuffle into a fictional prison meek as a lamb, and five seasons later is striding the corridors as Top Dog with a hot blonde on her arm.

Sally April 23, 2019 13 Comments
Queer Fashion

Find Your Fit: The 30-Year-Old Leaning Into Quirky, Adult Androgyny

“My early 20s was all about 1950s vintage librarian looks (fit n’ flare dresses, patterned tights, cardigans) but in the last year (legitimately writing this to you on my 30th birthday), I’ve found myself leaning towards a much more androgynous style.”

M April 23, 2019 6 Comments
TV Show Recaps

“Legends of Tomorrow” Episode 412 Recap: As Is

Sara dives into Ava’s personal Purgatory to work out their issues and save her girl.

Valerie Anne April 23, 2019 9 Comments
Dating

A Brief Investigation into Dating Someone With the Same Name as You, A Real Thing People Actually Do

A brief investigation into the particular phenomenon within same-sex relationships of same-name relationships. Are you okay with being Megan to her Meghan? Why??? I am listening.

Rachel April 23, 2019 116 Comments
Movie Reviews

“JT LeRoy”: Kristen Stewart Is Phenomenal But Everything This Movie Tries To Say About Gender Is Bad

JT LeRoy is not a great movie. In fact, it’s pretty bad. And yet in so many ways it’s the perfect JT LeRoy movie, the inevitable conclusion to this whole twisted saga.

Drew Burnett Gregory April 23, 2019 3 Comments
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