Sunday Funday Is Busking With Brandi Carlile
A showcase for trans and nonbinary games creators, Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan’s podcast, queer tarot and mysticism, this picture of Janelle Monáe!!! And more this Sunday Funday.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Inappropriate Content
Instagram’s new censorship. Plus sex workers unionizing, porn to save the bees, weed and your sex life and more.
Anonymous Sex Toy Review: The Squish, a Cute Little Thing From Unbound
In which three powerful women come together to discuss the same vibrator.
Queer Tarotscopes: Taurus Season Means It’s Time for Practical Magic
Taurus is a season of practical magic, a time when we learn how to balance independence and intensity with deliberation, focus, and comfort.
Raising Baby T. Rex: Having It All Is a Big, Heteronormative Lie
What I’ve learned is that parents and moms especially, even cool radical-minded queer moms, even boss-lady moms with lots of confidence in their own abilities, really can’t escape the “working mom” BS.
Juliana Valdés of “Amar a Muerte” Is the National Champion of Coming Out Stories!
“This isn’t wrong. Love is not a perversion, okay? And you know what? This is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever felt in my whole life.”
Queer Journalist and LGBT Rights Activist Lyra McKee Killed in a Terrorist Incident in Northern Ireland
“Lyra was a ball of energy, passion and wit. To know her even a little was an inspiration.”
Boobs on Your Tube: Game of Thrones’ Lone Lesbian Lives!
Yara returns to the Iron Islands, Sara Lance and her biceps return to Star City, and The Chi returns to Showtime.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Happy Almost 4/20, What’s Your Favorite Vice?
BLAZE ITTTTT!!! Happy Friday let’s talk about our vices!
The Comment Awards Are Celebrating You, and Also These Butches
“Relationship Milestone: Buying a two-pack of coconut oil to make vegan gingerbread for her, then never hanging out again.”
Vegetarian Chopped Liver and Pynk Pickled Eggs for Passover: A Two-Part Recipe
This vegetarian, kitniyot-free vegetarian chopped liver feels really homey and comfortable and hearty and celebratory. Chag Pesach sameach!
“The Magicians” Makes Magic Out of Pain in a Finale Full of Big Queer Feelings
The Magicians finale was all about making magic out of pain and choosing your family.
“Riverdale” Episode 318 Recap: The Power of Grief
Oh great, now Toni’s in the farm, too.
Also.Also.Also: Tegan and Sara are Ready to Take You Back to High School
Plus: Stevie Nicks, the TIME 100, the 20th anniversary of Columbine, and an entire section dedicated Beyoncé’s “Homecoming” just because we can!
What to Do About Every Gay Crush You’ve Ever Had, Have Now, and Will Have in the Future
Crushes are wild and often irrational, but I’m a Capricorn so I’d like to make them slightly more logical. Here’s how you can do that, too.
Queer Women Truly Are More Likely to Be Tree-Hugging Hippies
“Although not all of us are saving our shower water to nourish the eggplants growing next to our chicken coop, our study and several others show that we are indeed more environmentally aware than our heterosexual counterparts.”
15 LGBT Documentaries on Kanopy, Free Streaming Film Goldmine
Not all libraries have Kanopy access, but if yours does, you are hot to trot, my friend. Much like the subjects of the documentary about same-sex ballroom dancing, Hot to Trot, discussed within! Just a little LGBT documentary humor for you.
Look At These Butch Heroes
It’s time to celebrate the butches that make this world better.
How I Let Queer Literature Come Out to my Middle School Students for Me
Middle school is weird. It was awkward as hell when I was a hormonal, monstrous, uncertain twelve-year-old, and only slightly less so when I went back to teach English. So when I found myself, a 23-year-old rookie teacher, standing in a cafeteria fielding a question about how lesbian sex works from a seventh grader, I can’t say I had any right to be surprised.
No Filter: Maybe Rachel Maddow Will Go Fishing With Melissa Etheridge!
Also, find out what Kristen Stewart got into at Coachella and help me decide what Samira Wiley ordered from Red Lobster for her birthday?!?!?