Monday Roundtable: How Do We Live with Ourselves?
Everyone has some things that make them hard to live with — like, literally, like in the same apartment as them. Here are ours.
Sunday Funday Is Beat For the Gods With Laverne Cox
Laverne Cox’s music video Beat To The Gods, LGBTQ athletes winning at the Olympics, Daniela Vega is the first openly trans presenter at the Oscars, gender-inclusive makeup launch, Pulse survivors join gun control activism, and tear-jerking photos of Black kids watching Black Panther that will probably destroy you in a good way.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Knows How To Muff
The dating apps working to create safer experiences for people of color and queer and trans people, how to muff, how to have boundaries and more.
VIDEO! Getting in Bed with Kristin + Reneice: You Can Cook Food!
Reneice got in my bed and we MADE COOKIES. That should be all you need to know but I will also tell you that we answered food-related advice and also some relationship-advice, all while filling my sheets with crumbs! Woot!
Y’All Need Help #20: Is This Too Many Metaphors?
Your family buys you weird gifts, your mom is kinda rude about your long-distance girlfriend, and you can’t move on after this breakup. Let’s get some shit done! Come on!
The Intensely Detailed Janelle Monáe and Tessa Thompson Timeline You’ve Been Waiting For
Okay, are these two dating or not? We did the research, and we have receipts.
Yo! That’s Not Cool #8: Practice Being Me
I discovered the #1 thing that isn’t cool: giving a damn about someone’s opinion of me.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: TAG YOURSELF!!!
TAG YOURSELF!!! HAPPY FRIDAY!!! JANELLE MONÁE GAVE US TWO BISEXUAL ANTHEMS!!!
The Comment Awards Are in San Junipero with Janelle Monáe
I scream, you scream, we all scream for bi-scream!
Lesbian Married Couple Battle South Africa’s Homophobic Dept. of Home Affairs Over Spousal Visa
South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs has come under fire from LGBTQ activists and community members for discriminating against LGBTQ people in their processes.
My Absurd Skincare Routine Is the Softest I Am to Myself
Sometimes being queer and black, bisexual and biracial, feels like contradiction, like too many things, and sometimes I’m not sure that I’d recognize myself if I walked by.
What Is Your Damage, New “Heathers” TV Show?
The “Heathers” reboot pilot dropped yesterday and Heather and Riese are here to tell you why it shattered their queer dreams into a million tiny terrible pieces.
MUSIC VIDEO: Tessa Thompson Makes Janelle Monáe (and Us) Feel Pretty F*cking Queer Today
I’m not sure what else you have going on today, but you are going to want to make room for this video.
I Love “Black Panther” with All My Heart, and I Deserve to See My Queer Self in It Too
The very premise of Wakanda is based on imagining new black realities. Creating new legends, tales of heroics that aren’t predicated on whiteness. Stories of community and strength. Liberation and stardust.
Playlist: Cardio Is My Boss Battle
We’ve got one warm-up song to help you be the very best like no one ever was, as well as two songs of cooldown, totaling about five minutes, from everyone’s favorite queer farming simulator. And everything in between.
Notes From A Queer Engineer: Badass Princess Engineers and Gaming Manifestos
So much good STEM news this week! Come and get your links.
Pop Culture Fix: The Queerish “Heathers” Pilot Is Here To Get Your Goat and Other Stories Best Approached With Trepidation
Brace yourself for the “Heathers” pilot, Melonie Diaz is playing gay again this time in Charmed, Lena Waithe’s “Twenties” is going to TBS, “Every Day” is a gender-hopping love story, Cherry Jones stars as a lesbian in “The Party,” the dudes who wrote Everything Sucks! on their inspo and so many other important YES VERY IMPORTANT stories!
Oh, Hey! It’s Alyssa #41: Good Talk
“I guess there just aren’t enough hours on the bus.”
What to Say to Someone Who Met a Lesbian
Greet them with various felicitations – ones you’re comfortable with. Don’t step too far out of your “vibe” as that will be unsettling.
No Filter: Janelle Monáe Is Trying To Break Your Heart
Also, Jenny Owen Youngs wrote you a love song, Kehlani gave you a pep talk and I gave Demi Lovato a present from the heart.