Style Thief: Kat Sandoval in Black Tie
Once again Sara Ramirez as Kat Sandoval has overwhelmed us. I’m here to help you steal her style.
Winter Gym Class: Learn to Play Basketball, the Gayest Sport of All
Yes, basketball is fun to watch (it helps that so many WNBA players are just dreamy). But it’s also fun to play! This edition of Gym Class will help you figure out which position you’re best suited for, learn the proper set up for shots, and try out some practice drills solo or with a partner.
VIDEO! Getting In Bed with Kristin + Erin: First Dates
Erin Sullivan joined me in bed last week to report from the field on HOW TO DO FIRST DATES. All you need to know, plus Jenny joins and shares with us her thoughts on “bringing a worksheet for you both to fill out.” We are so good at this. (Oh, and also the ring light made us ghosts.)
“Doki Doki Literature Club” Doesn’t Subvert Dating Sim Misogyny as Much as It Thinks It Does
Rather than simply acknowledging the ridiculous trope of no female agency in dating sims and attempting to explain it away from a meta perspective, I wish the game had instead just given the girls more agency.
“Lizzie” Review: Kristen Stewart and Chloë Sevigny Have Hot Barn Sex, Axe-Murder a Man Together
Misery loves company. We know where this tale inevitably leads, but some pleasure precedes the axe.
Playlist: My 2018 Brand Is Masculine Nerd Witch
I’m taking back power this year, after a year of feeling so powerless. I’m reveling in the parts of me that feel most like me.
Relevant To Your Interests: Be The Gym Leader
I do not like gyms. They smell like people. Not in the good way. Here’s some nerd gear to get you through.
Monday Roundtable: What Reality Show/Game Show Would You Destroy?
“Does anyone at the CIA who is for sure reading this want to hire me?”
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Having Sex On Shrooms
Why you should be careful about sex on shrooms, rumbly vs buzzy vibrators, dating as a hobby, why “microcheating” is absurd and more.
Sunday Funday is Saluting Helen Grace James, 90-Year-Old Lesbian American Hero!
Helen James wins her case and is generally a real American hero I can get behind, new documentary about Black lesbian playwright Lorraine Hansberry, Sarah Waters on 20 years of Tipping the Velvet, Joan Greene is yet another LGBT candidate running in 2018, Melissa Etheridge wants an uprising of love, and more good stuff!
Femme Brûlée: Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Cranberry Nut Bars
Bonus points if you listen to The Cranberries while you make these bars.
Baopu #42: I’m Falling
Don’t worry, I’m fine…most of the time, anyway.
2018 GLAAD Media Award Nominees Include Autostraddle, Gabby Rivera’s “America,” “One Day at a Time” and More of Your Faves
GLAAD Award nominations were announced today and Autostraddle got a fifth nomination!
Boob(s On Your) Tube: The TV Gays Are Out In Full Force in 2018
Grey’s Anatomy, grown-ish, Fresh Off the Boat, The Fosters, and Sara Ramirez in that tux!
Things I Read That I Love #255: An Extended Exposure Therapy To All The Things You Once Feared.
Topics include Newsies, Katja Blichfeld, the abuse of temps in a Toronto factory, Diana Vreeland, book covers, privileging choicelessness and so much more!
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: What’s Your Type??
Happy Friday I have a crush on an actor! Let’s talk about it!!
The Comment Awards Are Weak in the Knees
“Of course Kristen would be scissors.”
On Loving My White Mother
In which a debate over body hair pushes a white mother and her brown daughter to the limits of mutual understanding.
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Playlist: My 2018 Brand Is Basically Just Eartha Kitt in the “I Wanna Be Evil” Video
It’s 2018, we’re sick of this, and we’re hungry for blood.
Pop Culture Fix: Tig Says Lesbian Masterpiece One Mississippi‘s Season 3 Was Gonna Be “Quite The Force” and Other Stories
Tig’s statement on the unfair no-good terrible cancellation of the wonderful One Mississippi, a new Heathers trailer continues to confound, Bellevue features a trans actress playing a murdered trans girl, Lena Waithe is gonna be on “This Is Us,”omg Black Lightning, the story of Steven Universe and so much more!