“I think the fewer examples there are of fat people or people writing about fatness, the more we expect from individuals, when fatphobia is a systemic problem. What I really want to see is just all of the stories.”
Struggle does not inherently hold more import than comfort and freedom and rebellion and escape.
Also Megan Thee Stallion is so beautiful it makes me physically ill.
It is radical for a woman like Megan, who has had her sexuality be used against her, reclaim it in a way that recenters her pleasure.
“For nearly the last seven years, I’ve felt incredibly lucky to have known Autostraddle from the inside out, every corner and nook and cranny, because I loved it first as a reader.”
Growing up in a Missouri trailer park, Chappell has been outspoken about the Midwest as a center of cultural revolution.
“A few years back, my best friend got married, moved to the suburbs, and had kids.”
As usual, all genres are represented, but there’s a surprising amount of creepy reads in the thriller/horror realm coming out the rest of summer.
In today’s pop culture fix — tons of queer performances at the BET Awards, Pride Barbies, a queer cast member of Real Housewives of New York City, Kehlani talks about being a lesbian and more!
The march has always had a variety of chants and slogans, and as I looked around I felt like I received a window into what dykes care about right now. Or, you know, what dykes in NYC who attended this march care about.
Check out the first chapter of On Her Terms, a sapphic rom-com with a fake relationship plot.
In the Lanthimos universe, characters commit acts of violence, desperation, adoration, and ferocity inside of an absurdist haze.
We’ve got a lesbian mixologist in an A24 series about grief and robots, Netflix’s “wine-soaked sex romp in the Italian countryside,” the streaming release of Love Lies Bleeding, a Melissa Etheridge documentary and more this Olympic July!
July is here for you to catch your breath and release what’s stuck.
Writer, actor and comic Amber Ruffin took to instagram to announce: “In what will come as a shock to exactly zero people, I’m using the last day of PRIDE to come out.”
Are you Jimmy Neutron? Lizzie McGuire? Mrs Frizzle? There are so many early aughts kids TV characters that you could possibly be and today you will find out which one you really are!
Here are the ten biggest challenges I’ve faced as someone who splits my time between two countries because an Instagram crush got out of hand and whoops I fell madly in love.
If you are also looking for a beach read, we’ve got a few recs in this puzzle!
‘The Chi’s rainbow coalition gets the short shrift in its finale episode, Coop and Patience are making big moves in All-American, and Criminal Minds continues to be stressful.
Annie Hamilton befriends Tavi Gevinson and gets unhinged about it, the future of streaming, literary it-girls, MTV’s “The Real World,” Colleen Hoover has writer’s block, Kindbody sucks, a really funny piece about a “Conversational AI” conference and so much more!