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.
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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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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*
“Sure, I’ve mostly only eaten free fortune cookies for the past two days, but I’m FINE.”
It’s time to do your favorite thing: focus on your feelings!
Let’s talk about those really tiny really good things that happened to you this week!
“Petition to call a group of feminists ‘A Simmering Rage?'”
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.
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.
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.
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!
Strap-on sex shouldn’t leave any bruises unless you want it to.
Eight stories that feature intersex characters for you to read right now.
Abby Wambach, but make it fashion.
A new Supergirl trailer to watch while still talking about the One Day at a Time trailer, Ellen’s new game show and Runaways has been renewed, everybody’s eyes are on Lena Waithe, Sally Draper is Sabrina the Teenage Witch and a tweet that’ll make you smile guaranteed.
How cryptography, human-centered design, and statistics can be used in support of our democracy.