Oh Hey! It’s Alyssa #20: The Motions
“I won’t bother to save face and pretend I’ve been fine.”
“I won’t bother to save face and pretend I’ve been fine.”
no this look on my face is “excitement”
look how excited I am
also turned on
also our therapist says Tuesday morning is still good
“Calculate how many ‘free’ airline snacks you would need to eat to break even on the cost of your plane ticket.”
Also, Janelle Monáe is a feathery dream and Cara Delevingne has a lipstick hangover.
Jasika Nicole got in bed with me last week and helped me give advice on longterm relationships! We talked communication, couples therapy, and that way that your gf sighs and says it doesn’t mean anything but YOU KNOW IT MEANS SOMETHING, UGH.
Maggie and Kara work together to save Alex’s life. (And reader, they do.)
Let’s Get Weird is a judgement-free place to talk about fashion and feelings.
“After that summer, all I wanted was reassurance — not from other people necessarily, but from myself. I would have loved to talk to my adult self and ask her a million questions: Am I ok? Do I make it out of my teens alive? Who do I turn out to be, in the end?”
This year, unions and organizations came together across the country to push back on Trump’s immigration policies and showed how labor rights and immigrant rights intersect.
After April’s gentle lessons to release and surrender, May is here to get us into trouble.
I grew up hearing stories from elders about how integral the black church was to their lives during the Civil Rights era. Being a queer woman, I never quite felt that same sense of camaraderie in the church. So I found my sanctuary on Twitter.
Let her rest.
“I like my fucking deliciously stressful, especially after a good spanking, and in the hands of a capable partner the business end of the Bück can provide.”
The mythology has her securing a promise of perpetual “virginity” from her father and immediately skipping off into the mountain forests with a group of like-minded nymphs. Together she and her women hiked, swam, lived off the land and viciously murdered any man who walked in on them naked.
When we (or our siblings) are under attack, stand up DANCE BACK.
“The ADA tends to disintegrate in the hands of airlines and their staff, especially for POC and QTPOC, and it doesn’t matter if the law is on your side.”
Storing plastic grocery bags, saying no, broken appliances, mini scrapbooks, keeping your energy up in stressful times and more!
“A woman enters the front door of a home that seems unfamiliar to her. She peers around, assessing.”
Meet these cool dragonfly ladies who feign death to avoid dude dragonflies, a record number of trans women running for office, Democrats moving to outlaw conversion therapy, and more!
Your April community gallery is here! With more llamas than you’d think.