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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
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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
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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
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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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“Supergirl” Episode 218 Recap: Just Gals Saving Pals

“I’ve never stood behind a man.”

Valerie Anne April 25, 2017 55 Comments
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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
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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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TV Reviews TV Show Recaps

“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.

Valerie Anne April 24, 2017 30 Comments
Book Lists

8 Books Featuring Asian and Pacific Islander Queer Women

Looking for clearly queer Asian and Pacific Islander women in fiction? Look no further.

Casey April 24, 2017 19 Comments
TV Reviews

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.”

Riese April 24, 2017 25 Comments
Food Lists

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.

Siobhan April 24, 2017 7 Comments
Politics + Activism

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!

KaeLyn April 24, 2017 8 Comments
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