3 A.M.: First Day, Huh?
“My name is Mae, today’s my first day.”
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Just Saw A Face
How to take perfect naked selfies, why people like masochism, how much sex (some) people are having, seeing the same faces on dating apps over and over and more.
Sunday Funday is Wearing Rainbow Chucks to the Frontline Awards
U.S. national soccer is sporting rainbow letters for pride, super gay sneakers from Nike and Converse if that’s your thing, self-care according to the laaaadies, Astrea’s Fueling the Frontlines Award are intersectional feminist fire, a new album from artists living in countries where being gay is dangerous or illegal, and more good queer stuff!
5 Technologies I Wish I Had Known About Before I Started This Move
LEARN FROM MY MISTAKES.
Some Things: Ghosts
I know I’ve left behind ghosts.
23% Of Women Don’t Shave Their Pits, Thanks Feminism!?
I did my own research, aka I texted a bunch of my queer and trans friends to ask them about their body hair. What do you do with your pit hair? How does that choice connect with your gender, your other identities, cultural or family expectations?
Four Hot New Queer and Queer-ish Singles From Your Faves to Usher In Summer
Mary Lambert, Halsey and Lauren Jauregui, Hailee Steinfeld and Carly Rae Jepsen all gave us new queer or queer-ish songs this week, and it’s up to you to make at least one of them the song of the summer.
Things I Read That I Love #238: Mythological Teen Goddesses Haunting Texas Supermarkets.
Topics include Twin Peaks, the Menendez Brothers murders, white supremacy, the artwashing of Boyle Heights, Richard Nixon, waterparks, “The Perils of Privilege” and so much more!
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Let’s Warm This House Up
Do you have any fur kids? What are their names? How did they come into your life?
The Comment Awards Are Knotting Their Pearls
Come for the euphemisms, stay for the butties! It’s the Comment Awards, now with more gender bending Gillian Anderson. Praise.
Steal Their Looks: The Donald Trump Administration
Not only are they serving up our wholesale demise, they’re serving looks.
Sherrell Faulkner of NC 11th Trans Person of Color Murdered in the US This Year
Nearly all those murdered, including Faulkner, have been Black trans women.
Queer Crip Love Fest: More Seen Than I’ve Ever Felt
An A-Camp love story to help ease your comedown!
Mainstream Film Said “Mmmm Nope” to Representing Queer Women in 2016, GLAAD Studio Responsibility Index Reveals
At least one-third of the lesbian and bisexual female characters in major studio films last year appeared on-screen for under ten seconds, which is only one of many problems revealed by GLAAD’s 2016 Studio Responsibility Index.
Pop Culture Fix: Poussey and Taystee Reunite Forever in San Junipero
Plus some new scenes from OITNB’s new season, Carrie Fisher’s last Star Wars cover shoot, Ellen’s first standup special in 15 years, Wynonna Earp key art, Queen Sugar’s second season trailer and more!
Liquor In the Moving Boxes: A Monkey Wrench While I Pack My Bar
Ugh. I’m moving. Here’s a monkey wrench.
“Little Nightmares” Is Full of Grown-Up Terror
So basically, in summary, they took all the things you were afraid of as a child and they made a four-hour-long game that I recommend.
No Filter: Gaby Dunn Is Here To Take Your Wife
How was your Brittani Nichols today?
Lez Liberty Lit: Fragile
Meme historians, the necessary fragility of feminism and radical politics, poetry a fatal, first-person queer writing as a way to shift power and more.
“Supergirl” Episode 222 Recap: Strong at the Broken Places
Go get ’em, Supergirl.