Alyson Stoner on the Power of Movement and Queer Joy
“One of the most beautiful things, especially in the queer experience, is joy.”
Holidays Are for Best Friends, Teletubbies, and Arthur
Every holiday season, I revisit 2000’s Arthur’s Perfect Christmas and its lessons about friendship.
Hallmark’s “Friends and Family Christmas” Is The Cheesy Holiday Romance Sapphics Deserve
“Friends and Family Christmas is everything that those of us who want an easy, cheesy Christmas romcom could ask for. Low stakes, lots of twinkly lights, and two openly queer actresses playing the romantic leads.”
My Favorite Queer Christmas Movie Is “How To Blow Up a Pipeline”
Yes, it’s a Christmas movie actually. Let me explain.
25 Things To Do if You Need a Break From Your Family This Holiday Weekend
8. Go down a social media rabbit hole trying to figure out what your favorite high school English teacher is up to.
I Think I Accidentally Bought My Fiancée a Haunted Music Box for Christmas
Who knew the vintage clown music box that inexplicably plays “Memories” from the musical Cats would be haunted?
Gay People: I Need Us To Care About Palestine
“In a world where it is clear that the nation-state is an outdated model that cannot hold us down, that cannot protect us, I ask: what do we owe each other? What do we owe the land? How do we protect each other, and the land, in this increasingly turbulent time?”
Power Ranking Italian (and Italian-American) Christmas Desserts
My ancestors really said “Ok, let’s make a dessert that looks like cured meat.”
Queer Mom Chronicles: Christmas With a Tween
My mother warned me that it goes by fast, but f*ck. The constant back and forth of being the mom of a tween is breaking my heart.
Tie-Dyed Christmas Cookies and Coquito
Are you really going to tell me that you don’t want melt in your mouth sugar cookies and cinnamon, coconut, and rum to wash it down with, right this very moment? Because I don’t believe you.
Join Me in Making DIY Holigay Soap
It’s the holigay season! It’s time to do cozy things and get gifts for your loved ones. I figured I would do you a solid and tackle both of those things in one fun post!
10 Budget Friendly Holigay Dates
We can’t all vacation to a ski chalet to drink hot cocoa and enter their gingerbread house contest for a weekend! Here are some cheaper alternatives to capture some romantic holiday magic.
We Got High and Watched Hallmark Hanukkah Movie “Round and Round,” and Yes of Course the Sister Is a Lesbian
“Do you think we think everyone is gay because they are or because we are or because we are high or because of Jewish?”
How To Romanticize Being Solo for the Holidays
Going it solo for Christmas is turning out to be annoyingly emotional. However, what’s helped immensely has been romanticizing the whole affair.
You Need Help: Can My Spouse and I Boil Our Menstrual Cups Together?
“Is there any sanitary reason NOT to?”
The Limits and Possibilities of an Anti-Zionist Hanukkah
For me, and so many Jewish people, the lack of certainty, the encouragement of complex discussion, is what connects us to our faith.
Quiz: Which Gay Holiday Archetype Are You?
Are you a Hot Cocoa Mommi, a Fire Pit Butch, a Chaos Elf?
Holigay Gift Guide: Things Marketed To My Former Gender That I Actually Want
I was always bad at being a girl but now, with inflation, fast fashion, and heightened capitalism…I am so glad I figured out I was trans years ago.
Holigay Gift Guide: Goblin Mode
We have gifts for those in your life going goblin mode this season or all seasons, presents for the filthy gremlins you picked up on your quest, and offerings for the absolute trolls who are near and dear to your heart.
Holigay Gift Guide: What To Buy the Muscle Masc in Your Life
I’m including some tighter budget items and more size-inclusive options as well, because I don’t think anyone should be kept from being their best self in the gym just because of finances or lack of available larger sizes.