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Book Features

Read a F*cking Book Club: We’re Reading “When They Call You A Terrorist”!

We’re gonna read Patrisse Khan-Cullors’ new memoir and it’s gonna be great!

Ari January 16, 2018 3 Comments
Television TV News & Trailers

Starz’s “Vida” Promises Next-Level Queer Latinx TV and We Can’t Wait

TCA wraps up this week but we’ve already picked the show we’re most excited about: Starz’s”Vida” has a Queer Latina showrunner, a writers room that’s 100% Latinx and 50% queer, an all-POC mostly-female directing team, and so many queer and gender non-conforming characters!

Riese January 16, 2018 10 Comments
Movie Lists

11 Black Experience Movies to Watch on Your Martin Luther King Jr. Day Off

These films are beautiful and poignant — though at times painful and heart-wrenching — testaments to Black Lives and just how much they matter, not just today, but always.

Reneice Charles January 15, 2018 4 Comments
First Person

Monday Roundtable: Very Superstitious, Writing’s on the Wall

Do you pick up pennies for good luck? Does part of you still think stepping on a crack will break your mother’s back? Did you know that apparently “to kill an albatross is to cause bad luck to the ship and all upon it”? Bummer!

the team January 15, 2018 13 Comments
Movie Reviews

“Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart: Lorraine Hansberry” Is the Documentary We All Need and Deserve in 2018

She inspired a Nina Simone song. She was clocked by the Feds. She wore pearl earrings. She gave a generation of Black actors the roles that would define their careers.

fonseca January 15, 2018 6 Comments
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Playlist: My 2018 Brand Is for Wealthy Divorceés When Martha’s Vineyard Isn’t Enough

Scene: French countryside in winter. I am wrapped in a floor length faux fur coat and earmuff. My new diamond earrings and rings sparkle in the brisk sunshine. From afar, I watch the children playing with their au pair in a grassy knoll.

Ari January 15, 2018 10 Comments
Health

Winter Gym Class: Get In, We’re Going Snowshoeing

Welcome to the Winter edition of Gym Class! Get outside and enjoy the season with snowshoeing. It’s suitable for most fitness levels and it’s best to snowshoe with a partner, so it makes a great winter date!

Katrina January 15, 2018 2 Comments
Movie Reviews

“Proud Mary” Review: Taraji P. Henson Is a Hot-as-Hell Ass-Kicker in a Lukewarm Film

I thought Proud Mary was going to be Taraji P. Henson’s Atomic Blonde moment, but the movie never lets her reach that action star potential, throttling her with a weakass story that she nonetheless sells the hell out of because she’s Taraji P. Henson.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 15, 2018 5 Comments
Society + Culture

Sunday Funday Is Lovin’ Up With Our Old-Timey Gal Pals

Jessica Platt is the first out trans player in the Canadian Women’s Hockey League, Disney gal pal pairing you’ll freak out over, rare vintage photos of 18th and early 19th-century lesbians, 90-year-old lesbian veteran sues the U.S. Air Force, and lesbian herstory accounts you need in your life.

KaeLyn January 14, 2018 11 Comments
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NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Thinking About Sex Robots

How to buy a vibrator, how to get back together with an ex, vulvic aura portraits, what your astrological sign says about how you masturbate and more.

Ryan Yates January 14, 2018 3 Comments
AF+

VIDEO! Getting In Bed with Kristin: New Year’s Revolution

It is 2018, I still have a bed, and I had a damn great time talking to all of you about how we are going to tackle this new year from every angle like the Amazons we are. *muscle flex*

Kristin January 13, 2018 5 Comments
Webcomics

Grease Bats: New Year’s Resolutions

“Sure, I’ve mostly only eaten free fortune cookies for the past two days, but I’m FINE.”

Archie January 13, 2018 19 Comments
Crafts & DIY Projects

How to Make a Vision Board (From a Vision Board Skeptic Willing to Change Her Ways)

It’s time to do your favorite thing: focus on your feelings!

Carmen Phillips January 12, 2018 36 Comments
Straddleverse

FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Building From Small Moments

Let’s talk about those really tiny really good things that happened to you this week!

Ryan Yates January 12, 2018 76 Comments
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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Lounge-Of-Center

“Petition to call a group of feminists ‘A Simmering Rage?'”

Darcy January 12, 2018 26 Comments
Food and Drink

Radical Queer Nutrition: Meet the Witch Who Wants to Help Heal Your Guts

Over the next few months, certified nutritional therapist Lark Malakai Grey will be exploring various aspects of nutrition that will help make your body — which is wonderful how it is — a more comfortable place to live in.

Lark Malakai January 12, 2018 84 Comments
Music

Hayley Kiyoko’s “Curious” Is Your New Favorite Queer Music Video

It’s like Kiyoko is using every muscle in body and move in her repertoire to drag queerness to the front of her entire music career.

Mey January 12, 2018 14 Comments
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Playlists

Playlist: My 2018 Brand Is Gay Cowgirl, but Fancy

Imagine if Coley Taylor from “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” saw Hayley Kiyoko’s “Girls Like Girls” video first day of sophomore year of college and it freaking changed her life. I’m her ten years later.

Mey January 12, 2018 14 Comments
TV Lists

Gay Hairplay: Top 11 Times a Girl Touched Another Girl’s Hair on TV and Film

Lesbian and bisexual gal pals caressing each other’s hair on TV and in movies has gotten a bad rap, probably because that’s what most fictional queer women have historically done instead of kissing on the mouth. But hairplay can also be really sexy!

Heather Hogan January 11, 2018 57 Comments
Sex

You Need Help: When Strap-On Sex Leaves (Accidental) Bruises

Strap-on sex shouldn’t leave any bruises unless you want it to.

A.E. Osworth January 11, 2018 8 Comments
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