No Filter: Janelle Monáe’s Raspberry Beret
Also, Jasika Nicole shares her exquisite ginger dance and Cara Delevingne gets dangerous.
Foolish Child #21: Sick and Tired
“Hmm, white supremacy seems too obvious an answer.”
“The Handmaid’s Tale” Is Finally Here, Super Queer, as Horrifying as You’ve Heard
What makes The Handmaid’s Tale so striking isn’t just this world where all the pretense of female equality has been stripped away, but the ordinariness of such oppression even today.
Witch Hunt: We’re Back, Witches!
We’re back like a witch who was being burned at the stake and promised she’d come back one day.
What I Wore: Navigating the Heteronormative Patriarchy, Pt. 10
What I wore to the craft brewery, running errands, and getting my oil changed!
VIDEO! Getting In Bed with Kristin #12: Gaby Dunn!
Gaby Dunn got in bed with me last week! She helped me give advice, told me all about her new book, and shared the story of the first girl she made out with in high school WHICH GOT ME FEELING A LOT OF THINGS. Also featuring Jenny Owen Youngs as bed-gargoyle.
Five Lesbians Viciously Beaten by 15 Men, Say Portsmouth Police Let Attackers Ride Off in Taxis
One woman had her jaw broken and seven teeth knocked out, another a dislocated shoulder and bruised kidney, two left with black eyes — and, the victims of this homophobic attack tell the press, police have been handling the case “completely wrong.”
“Supergirl” Episode 218 Recap: Just Gals Saving Pals
“I’ve never stood behind a man.”
How Koko the Gorilla Describes Some Words Will Ruin You
From “death” to “ice cream,” Koko gets to the heart of it all.
View From The Top: Where I’m Going
I feel lighter than I’ve been in a year. I feel ecstatic with the possibilities. I feel giddy, like I’m falling in love.
Drawn to Comics: Support Strong Female Protagonist’s Kickstarter, Read the Best Superhero Comic On the Internet
Your chance to support a project that will go down in comics history one day as one of the finest comics of any type of its age!
Climate Change is a Problem Much Bigger Than the US — Here’s How All of Us Can Fight It
The Trump administration’s battle against environmental regulations and denial of climate change are terrifying, but the US isn’t the only nation that needs to do better by the planet, and fast. A scientist tells us what needs to be done, and where we can start.
9 90s TV Lady Crushes Who Changed My Life for the Gayer
Let’s take a Skip-It down memory lane and explore my 9 most influential telecrushes from the 90s.
“Into the Badlands” Is Here to Quench All Your Gay “Game of Thrones” Thirst
Girls smooching on each other and widowing their own damn selves from their abusive husbands.
8 Books Featuring Asian and Pacific Islander Queer Women
Looking for clearly queer Asian and Pacific Islander women in fiction? Look no further.
Hulu’s Handmaid’s Tale Is Queerer Than It Ever Was and Closer Than I Knew
Every time I return to it, The Handmaid’s Tale offers me something new. In the Hulu series, the “new thing” is “more lesbians.”
20 No Chop Recipes Because Honestly Who Has The Time
Sometimes chopping just isn’t an option. Maybe like me this week you can’t use your dominant hand. Maybe you’re sick or just really tired and don’t have it in you to stand in the kitchen for long enough to do all of the things.
Be The Change: A Community Organizer’s Glossary
From A to Z (ok, technically to W), organizing terms you may know and some you should know! Get in here and learn what positionality, patch throughs, Twitter storms, U-1 consensus, and grasstops engagement are all about!
Follow Your Arrow: Astrologer Chani Nicholas on Working With Your Gifts
“Being queer isn’t something that I can separate out from being a writer, astrologer, artist or entrepreneur and I would never want to.”
Searching for My Own Queerness in Bollywood
I needed Bollywood to show me it was possible to be a South Asian queer woman who could find love and have a happy ending.