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Identity

Queer Crip Love Fest: Insider/Outsider

“I feel affinity for parts of Asian communities, neuerodivergent communities, queer communities and kink communities. I don’t really feel completely invested in one place. It’s always been like that.”

Carrie April 27, 2017 2 Comments
Geekery

“Ladykiller in a Bind” Is the Surprise Love Story I Didn’t Know I Needed

Think of the 2001 Disney Channel Original Movie Motocrossed without the bikes and plus a whole lot of kink.

Jenna April 27, 2017 10 Comments
Food and Drink

Liquor in the Grapefruit: A New Twist on an Old Greyhound

When I was flipping through the internet for cocktail inspiration, I was taken with the Greyhound, a miraculously simple cocktail consisting of only gin and grapefruit juice. Something ripe for riffing on.

A.E. Osworth April 27, 2017 25 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Kinda Gay, Or Really Gay?

Grammar as privilege, cardboard presses, ranking fictional drugs, disability in sci-fi and fantasy and more.

Ryan Yates April 27, 2017 10 Comments
TV Show Recaps

Pretty Little Liars Episode 712 Recap: This Was Before Our Boundaries Treaty

Alison and Emily and Paige still have no idea how to close a door or whisper.

Heather Hogan April 26, 2017 30 Comments
Health

Feelings Rookie: So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye

Goodbyes are only goodbye if I want them to be. Life is about making connections and working to maintain them. It’s also such a wild ride that you never know where you’ll end up or who will end up there with you.

Molly Priddy April 26, 2017 17 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Ellen Gets The Cast Back Together For 20th Anniversary Of Scandalous Coming Out Episode and Other Stories

Ellen Degeneres is doing a “Puppy Episode” tribute with Oprah and Laura Dern, everybody’s talking about The Handmaid’s Tale, Kristen Stewart queers up the screen, Ellen Page’s Gaycation Special and so much more!

Riese April 26, 2017 10 Comments
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Janelle Monáe’s Raspberry Beret

Also, Jasika Nicole shares her exquisite ginger dance and Cara Delevingne gets dangerous.

Stef April 26, 2017 20 Comments
Webcomics

Foolish Child #21: Sick and Tired

“Hmm, white supremacy seems too obvious an answer.”

Dickens April 26, 2017 28 Comments
TV Reviews

“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.

Dorothy Snarker April 26, 2017 56 Comments
Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

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.

Mey April 26, 2017 15 Comments
Queer Fashion

What I Wore: Navigating the Heteronormative Patriarchy, Pt. 10

What I wore to the craft brewery, running errands, and getting my oil changed!

Erin April 26, 2017 31 Comments
AF+

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.

Kristin April 25, 2017 1 Comment
Politics + Activism

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.”

Riese April 25, 2017 25 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

“Supergirl” Episode 218 Recap: Just Gals Saving Pals

“I’ve never stood behind a man.”

Valerie Anne April 25, 2017 55 Comments
Pets & Animals

How Koko the Gorilla Describes Some Words Will Ruin You

From “death” to “ice cream,” Koko gets to the heart of it all.

Erin April 25, 2017 35 Comments
Sex

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.

Sinclair Sexsmith April 25, 2017 6 Comments
Geekery

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!

Mey April 25, 2017 7 Comments
Politics + Activism

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.

Maree April 25, 2017 5 Comments
TV Lists

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.

Kai April 25, 2017 75 Comments
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