Hulu’s Handmaid’s Tale Is Queerer Than It Ever Was and Closer Than I Knew
Every time I return to it, The Handmaid’s Tale offers me something new. In the Hulu series, the “new thing” is “more lesbians.”
Every time I return to it, The Handmaid’s Tale offers me something new. In the Hulu series, the “new thing” is “more lesbians.”
Sometimes chopping just isn’t an option. Maybe like me this week you can’t use your dominant hand. Maybe you’re sick or just really tired and don’t have it in you to stand in the kitchen for long enough to do all of the things.
From A to Z (ok, technically to W), organizing terms you may know and some you should know! Get in here and learn what positionality, patch throughs, Twitter storms, U-1 consensus, and grasstops engagement are all about!
“Being queer isn’t something that I can separate out from being a writer, astrologer, artist or entrepreneur and I would never want to.”
I needed Bollywood to show me it was possible to be a South Asian queer woman who could find love and have a happy ending.
On Earth Day, we marched for Science. We marched for space exploration and cures for disease, for electricity and for the planet, and for everything that science has a hand in which is, well, everything.
Hillary calls out Trump at LGBT fundraiser, unicorn frappe style thief you’re welcome, a new free font in honor of the creator of the rainbow flag for your next protest sign, British teachers’ union support LGBT-inclusive all-ages education, ignoring advances from dudes like a damn lady ostrich, the L.A. Times embraces singular “they,” and your LGBTQ YouTube content is no long blocked! Yay!
Where to have public sex, how many dating apps you should be on, whether sex is better high or drunk, how your sex life relates to your masturbation life and more.
Reed, who grew up in Carol City and graduated from American Senior High School, was just 28 years old. She is the sixth trans woman of color under the age of thirty murdered this year, and the eighth Black trans woman murdered this year.
You never have to watch a cis white dude play video games again.
I made a friend! And a blue cake to celebrate!
Topics include Rachel Dolezal, transformative justice, Coachella, true love that isn’t true love at all, a new kind of “crowdsourcing,” Slack, and so much more!
When you wanna be “on theme” but not in “full costume,” here are some retro-inspired looks that’ll really impress the ladies in San Junipero.
We’ve got cosmonauts, laundry tips for misandrist vampires, and a lot of puns about those fellows at Pompeii — too soon?
Relax, it’s Friday. Enjoy some dog content.
Lumpy Space Princess makes me happy. That’s all.
Kristin of Everyone Is Gay and My Kid Is Gay gives advice for a 16-year-old and her mom trying to deal with coming out as bisexual and gender nonconforming!
Ijeoma Oluo interviews Rachel Dolezal, gentrification, republican trans women, Poly Styrene, that NYT piece, an update on my swimsuit situation and even more!
A new Broad City short shows Abbi and Ilana enjoying this day, Tig Notaro talks about SNL stealing her material, Jane Lynch is done having sex, a peek at KStew’s directorial debut, and a new lesbian friend for Quinn on season three of UNreal.
I am not white, and I don’t particularly want white kids. I definitely do not want to pay for white sperm.