I hadn’t experienced transphobic violence in medicalized form before. But I’d experienced it in many others: in punches and pushes, through threats with weapons, or by being run off the road by cars while I was on foot.
“I’d actually never even seen a woman in a blazer before. Like a men’s cut blazer. It really was like Fun Home. Inside I really did feel like I KNOW YOU!”
Michelle Obama’s a true ally, Sue Bird’s joining the NBA, Brandi Carlile learns that Pluto isn’t a planet anymore, a rap for RBG and more!
This week, the internet got obsessed with pubic hair. Also: how to be more dominant in bed, sexts to send when you’re out of ideas, the hot new trend of later-in-life lesbianism and more.
“I share all this because I feel like everyone I know is struggling to keep it together lately, to have-it-all or to be-everything-to-everyone or to fight-the-good-fight.”
Shhhhsh-sh-sh. I have one minute left.
All American tackles internalized homphobia, Charmed gives Mel a devastating choice, Eleanor Shellstrop is horny even when she’s getting dragged into hell, AU! Charlie returns to Supernatural, Beth and Valencia are leaving Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and more!
Let’s have a check in about fall TV!
“It’s the urgency of being a girl, in the broadest sense of that admittedly binary term, of being a marginalized person and knowing in your heart that you have the power to change your world.”
“My mom watched The L Word before I did, so really this must be her fault.”
Blobs explore what getting dressed feels like.
What impresses me most about The Bisexual isn’t that it skewers The Discourse, but that it ignores it completely in favor of having an actual conversation.
Life is a roleplaying game and the roleplaying game is life.
“I was unwilling to buy a binder. It seemed like a declaration, the kind I was nowhere near ready to make yet. But for that winter, I had the bag.”
It’s been a banner year for queer women on the big screen!
We can finally settle it: Anissa Pierce is a top! Here’s some hot lesbian sex, tinged with a bit of angst and sadness, coming your way!
Topics include a hot Out 100, Celine Dion smashing the gender binary, Kehlani on being pan & preggers, “The Gilda Stories” becoming a movie, Stan Lee’s date with Patricia Highsmith, “8 Celebs Who’ve Opened Up About Their Lesbian Affairs” and more!
Noelle Stevenson’s remake of the short-lived but much beloved cartoon series is a brilliant homage to the original Gal Pals of Etheria and an absolute masterclass in feminist storytelling.
A new executive order from Trump changes the rules for how someone has to have entered the US to apply for asylum, leaving many immigrants — including LGBT migrants seeking asylum — in dangerous limbo.
Happy Thanksgiving from Sam the Cat!