Queer young adult fiction is exploding right now, but with so much out there, how can you figure out what to read next? These 25 queer YA novels — including superheroes, romance, small-town mysteries, mermaids, assassins and more — all feature or were written by LGBTQ women.
“Before becoming a parent, I looked at parenting through rose-colored glasses — with an able-bodied person’s perspective. It was drilled into my head by other people, well-meaning as they were, that I probably shouldn’t have children.”
Between the kind of policy making that’s forcing a societal hand to double down on a literal time bomb, this is liable to be the playlist of the summer!
It’s nothing more than a story, which I don’t think I have to tell you is potentially the biggest best thing there is. Play it. Spooky friendship. Just play it.
What can the hidden card on the bottom of a tarot decks add to a reading?
Poetry by Precious Okoyomon, living a feminist life, women’s ambition, more inclusive ways to think of feminism and womanism, and more.
Shannon Purser feels ya, Yorkie.
Then I met Summer, a junior counselor at the Christian summer camp I went to between sixth and seventh grade. Summer wore a different band shirt almost every day: Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Led Zeppelin. She told me she loved classic rock, and without hesitating, I said “me too.”
How far is heaven?
We all know self-care is important, but what does that actually mean? I talked to four experts in mental and social health care to find out more about the nuts and bolts of what self-care and community care look like for queer communities.
“If I approached everything in life with the same determination and speed I put into changing into pajamas after work, I would be a highly productive person”
Man, they really went all in on making this show a murder-mystery, huh?
“Drink Pepsi. And have a nicer day.”
Just what it sounds like. Also, Clea DuVall, Cameron Esposito and the Quin twins are up to something and Brittani Nichols got a haircut.
It was both the best idea and the worst idea I’ve ever had.
Netflix rained down a video clip from the season five premiere and a batch of promo photos for your homosexual enjoyment and speculation.
“So, are menstrual bags good, or are they bad? Do they empower women, or further constrict them? It becomes obvious that this is not a zero-sum game, and Moore illuminates the coexistence of multiple conflicting truths.”
“One way we can change the narratives around our sexuality and our erotic bodies is by taking up space as sexual beings and celebrating other women and femmes doing the same.” This zine is on it.
Before any of my other sexuality identities, I was kinky.
Fitting into Los Angeles wasn’t going to happen for me. Or so I thought, until I stopped trying.