Results for: women of colour
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PHOTO GALLERY: Queer in the Kitchen
Your communal photo gallery is here! Gaze upon nearly 200 queer as fuck kitchens, and the queers who queer them.
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Follow Your Arrow: For Books’ Sake’s Jane Bradley Champions Women Writers
“There’s no denying that women writers are affected by systemic, institutionalised sexism in the media and publishing industries, but women who are queer, trans, of colour, disabled, sex workers, from low-income backgrounds and/or otherwise outside the mainstream are inevitably impacted more than most.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Virtual Assistant Lizzy Goddard on Entrepreneurship and Chronic Illness
“In 2013 I was too ill to work, living on disability benefits, and had just dropped out of my masters degree. I was introduced to the world of lifestyle design, which then led me to the world of online business. Here were all these people, working from home/travelling, and running fun businesses from their laptops. About 2 months in I was making more than enough to live off, had doubled my rates and was hovering around fully booked…and now I’m a full-time, accidentally permanent VA!”
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Follow Your Arrow: #periodpositive Creator Chella Quint on Challenging Taboos With Joy
“I’m psyched that I invented a thing, and I don’t wish to make money from it. I just want to try to retain a little influence over it with the support of fellow taboo-busters so we can make some changes around here.”
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Witch Hunt: Build Your Altar and Celebrate Lammas With Us
Are you looking for information on how to make an altar for fire signs, why Ursula the sea witch is so great or what exactly witch kink is? We’ve got you covered.
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How to Write About Trans Women
“The photo on your cover or hanging above your article comes next. Go for broke here. Images of hairy legs in high heels or emerging from tutus are classics you can’t go wrong with, like Strauss’ Blue Danube waltz or light summery pastas with basil and garlic. The goal is to suggest that trans women must look like comical parodies of womanhood, like clueless men.”
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The True Price of Salt: On the Book that Became “Carol”
“There are many American readers for whom The Price of Salt would still be a revolutionary, shocking, immoral novel, the kinds of readers who have never, to their knowledge, met a lesbian or bisexual or pansexual woman before and who imagine us all as monstrous caricatures.”
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Witch Hunt: The Vernal Equinox Makes Everything New Again
A playlist for curing a broken heart, thoughts from a witch who watched The Witch, a celebration from the Witch in Into the Woods, a rumination on rituals, a new original illustration from Molly Ostertag, and so much more magical goodness awaits you inside.
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Girl, It’s Your Time: Trans Artist Vivek Shraya On Finding Freedom and Wholeness
“Gender self-determination is vital and I can feel great about who I am when I am at home. But I live a life where I engage with other people and doing what feels good for me is a lot more challenging when I step outside the door. With pronouns specifically, it’s hard not to feel like you are dependent on others to ‘validate’ your gender, or rather, it’s hard not to feel like your gender is not valid when people use the wrong pronoun.”
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Fool’s Journey: Tarot Gift Ideas for the Cardslingers in Your Life
Want to spread some tarot love this holiday season? Treat your friends (or yourself) to some handmade woo with these self-published tarot decks and handcrafted accessories!
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Ten Imaginary Lesbian Horror Films
Remember children, these movies are imaginary, but the horror is real.
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Listening to the Living and the Dead: Ruminations on #justiceforLeelahAlcorn
This post/essay/etc will be an exploration into what justice for Leelah Alcorn might actually look like and some of what is needed to ‘fix society.’
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43 Of The Gayest Things You’ve Fought About With Your Girlfriend
“Whether or not selfie culture upholds or demolishes the patriarchy”
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Ellen Talks Love With Ellen, Everybody Talks About Cara Delevingne, New Fox Project Seeks TWOC Lead and Other Stories
Also in today’s fix: a breakdown on gender and racial diversity in TV writing, Ellen Page and Ellen Degeneres talk coming out, lots of people talking about Cara Delevingne, Rosie O’Donnell’s guest spot on Empire, Olivia Wilde has made out with girls and other important stories!
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UK Home Office Says Aderonke Apata Can’t Be Gay Because She Has Children, Duh
“By ignoring the complexities of coming out both those who identify as bisexuals and lesbians with mixed dating histories like Ms. Apata are seen as demonstrating the idea that people can choose their identities with relative ease, and therefore the threat they face is technically self-inflicted.”
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I’m Not Happy About My Appearance In Ch4’s “Girls To Men” Trans Docuseries
Most trans stories on TV are forced into narrow, misguided and often inaccurate narratives. Here’s something you need to know about Channel 4’s “Girls to Men,” which airs tonight.
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Fool’s Journey: Cristy C Road’s Next World Tarot is the Deck of your Queer Punk Dreams
“Aside from bringing another deck to the world, I’m excited to create a deck that illustrates a blend of mind and body outcasts. The deck originated as a ‘queer deck’ but its definitely grown since that. I want to focus on people’s cultural and subcultural backgrounds, I want to blur fundamentalist spirituality, but maintain a lot of the traditional concepts behind the images.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Pathfinder Pace Smith On Chasing Your Heart’s Calling
“Own it, grrl. The world is getting queerer and queerer, and all the big businesses that refuse to acknowledge that are in their death throes. Your time is coming. Follow your heart. Do what you love. Start now.”
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10 Trans Women Pioneers They Definitely Didn’t Tell You About In History Class
While it’s important to acknowledge famous names like Christine Jorgensen and Lili Elbe, it’s also important to talk about other trans women who might be less well-known, but have had their own big impact on trans history.
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Follow Your Arrow: Musician and Furniture Maker Sean Desiree on Small Steps Towards Big Dreams
Musician Sean Desiree — who alone makes up all parts of the indie band bell’s roar — explains how they juggle being a musician by day with running a furniture-making business by night, how they learned to deal with rejection, and what’s it’s like being a queer person of colour in an industry and genre dominated by straight white men.