Pop Culture Fix: Surprise It’s Tegan and Sara At Our Pride Party and Other Cool Stories
Topics include Tegan and Sara’s pride weekend, Ellen Page’s Britney Spears cover, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Doctor Who, The Switch and so much more!
Drawn to Comics: 7 LGBT Women Who Need to Appear in the MCU Immediately
It doesn’t look like Marvel will really going to be adding a lot of movies starring women or poc to their upcoming schedule any time soon. So instead, what I propose is that they fill up each movie with as many poc, women, disabled and LGBTQ characters as they can. Just stuff those movies full of ’em.
Oh Hey! It’s Alyssa #24: What Happened?
“Many presume they are entitled to the intimate quirks, details, and sorted history of my body…”
No Filter: Lauren Morelli And Samira Wiley Do Pride Perfectly
Also, Ruby Rose finds a banana world and Gaby Dunn is a cool queer teen.
Notes From A Queer Engineer: Dumpster Honey and Tricky Nature Documentaries
Making wine in space, modern medicine doesn’t take women seriously, a solar eclipse is coming up soon and so many more links!
That One Time The Patriarchy Blessed Me
“I loved the Church, and I loved the gospel. I was the kind of Mormon who politely dismissed myself from classrooms when teachers showed R-rated movies. At my first and only high school rager, I texted my mother to pick me up because I felt out of place amidst the drinking and smoking. That was me, Straight-Edge Dera, except apparently I wasn’t so straight.”
20 Titles of Gay Papers I Want to Write One Day
“Three Kids, Two Femmes, a Butch and a Cat: Visions of Queer Domesticity”
Playlist: Just Fruit
A playlist because I don’t know, I just like fruit. For each fruit, I picked up to 3 song(s) fitting some criteria, and here we are.
“Queen Sugar” Does Black Lives Matter Storytelling Right
Unlike Orange Is the New Black, Queen Sugar’s approach to Black Lives Matter storytelling works because it doesn’t resort to excessive violence or torture porn to make its point.
How to Love Your Neighbor and Love Yourself by Reading the Bible for Pride
I can’t make every passage better. There are some passages that are still, even after months of study, hard to accept. But I try to remind myself that it’s okay to be critical of what’s written and that questions can help my faith grow.
“Orphan Black” Episode 503 Recap: Welcome to the Trip, Alison
Orphan Black takes us back to the very beginning and introduces us to Alison all over again.
Supreme Court Partially Enacts the F*cking Travel Ban, Zeroes In On “Religious Freedom”
The Supreme Court propped up Trump’s “travel ban” while agreeing to hear the case this fall. They’ve also got some of those good ol’ “religious freedom” challenges that endanger LGBT people in the hopper.
PHOTOESSAY: San Francisco Dyke March 2017
“Dyke is not just a sexual orientation. It’s a political identity. It stands for community. It stands for solidarity. It stands for radical fight.”
“Wynonna Earp” Episode 203 Recap: The One with the Cheerleading
Waverly, what in the bleeding heck is going on with you?!
Orange Is the New Black Episode 513 Review: Poussey Washington Was More Than a Martyr
“Thirteen hours of television later, and season five’s cliffhanger ends nearly exactly as season four: with women, many of whom are queer, many of whom are of color, in peril and facing an unknown future. Instead of grounding this season in a fight for social justice, they gleefully reveled in unnecessary violence and humiliation.”
San Francisco Trans March: “Celebrating Resilience with Love and Resistance”
It was an honor to stand in solidarity and support with all of the beautiful humans at the Trans March in San Francisco. Here’s what it looked like.
Team Pick: “Nancy” Goes To A-Camp
Kathy Tu and Tobin Low create a sound-venture of queerness from the perspective of two Asian-American homogays. And now, they have an episode in which Kathy goes to A-Camp for the first time.
Into The A+ Advice Box #2: The OLDEST Queer Gal Problem In The Book
In which the whole team gets together to answer your pressing questions on topics including being never kissed, living in the suburbs, fashion tips for a trans woman with Cerebral Palsy, getting back into the dating game, starting a freelance career and so much more!
3 A.M.: The Note From Ruth
“You aren’t dreaming.”
Sunday Funday Is Wishing Us All a Joyous Laverne Cox Day!
It’s Laverne Cox Day in NYC, a whole lotta’ Pride, Vogue mother Leiomy Maldonado stars in Nike ad, Gabby Rivera show us her writing process, a sneak peek of Hannah Hart’s new show, third gender ID’s offered in Pakistan, and more good news!