Judging Tonya
“By the end of the 1994 Winter Olympics, I was 12 years old and quite certain I’d picked the right side.”
“By the end of the 1994 Winter Olympics, I was 12 years old and quite certain I’d picked the right side.”
Will it fit? Only one way to find out!
Topics include the Santa Ana winds, murder, Weinstein’s Complicity Machine, sandwiches, black residents targeted by jaywalking (etc) tickets in Florida, “trailer trash,” IKEA cafeterias and so much more!
Are you the hip AF parents of a small human? Do you aspire to the be the quirky aunt (or auncle) who always brings cool feminist gifts? Let’s shop for the babiiiiieeeees!
“I think I’m not here to get coffee!”
“Princess Cyd isn’t interested in the well-worn plot of queer sexual awakening, the torture of figuring out who you are and the fraught path you have to follow to let other people in on your secret. In fact, Princess Cyd isn’t really interested in plot (or secrets) at all. It’s a character study of two women who clumsily and gently brush up against each other and find new happiness because of it.”
About eight months sober at that point, I had two thoughts scream through my mind at nearly the same time – first, “Oh hell yeah, all the whiskey at my fingertips” quickly followed by, “Oh hell no, this is cruel.”
Gal Pals! Gender Traitors! Glitter fiends! Get in here for some seriously great gifts!
This year’s Bad Sex Awards, Black women poets speaking truth to power, learning how to be alone, the problem with categories in literature and more.
Gifts to keep queers who live alone cozy, comfy, and feeling safe.
Jill has a crush on her boss, Dana, and, predictably, so do I. She also has an ex-girlfriend that’s a whole tropey plot of its own. There’s a gay biker boy and a lesbian veterinarian who works at a company owned and run by dogs.
Other topics include Lena Waithe on telling new stories, Princess Cyd, The New York Times on tumblr shippers and fan culture, lead characters in PLL spinoff “The Perfectionists,” lesbian character Faith coming back to UnREAL and so much more!
The holiday season is upon us, and you know what that means!
Two weeks? Seven months? Twelve years? However long you’ve been together, we’ve got your gifting covered.
“I’m dating a woman. I’m bi.”
Also, Gaby Dunn’s incredibly gay teenage journal. Trust me.
A short list of my favorites, from sport to strapless to sexy time.
The teens finally use their powers together, and it’s magical.
We’ve got Lena Waithe’s “The Chi,” a lesbian assassin in a parallel universe in “Counterpart,” budding superhero Anissa Pierce and her girlfriend badass bisexual bartender Grace Choi, Anna Paquin on a virtual reality holiday gifted by her wife and so many other lesbian and bisexual characters on now or coming soon to a teevee or otherwise-identified device near you.
Does baking a cake for a gay person amount to being forced by the state to artistically express your personal support for gay weddings? Bizarrely, that’s kind of what the Supreme Court is being asked to decide.