Queer Chef Angela Dimayuga shuts down IvankaTrump.com, Beverly Cleary turns 101 and Ramona is forever 8, the first protest in SPAAAACE, gay marriage is good for ya, Virginia tells bigots to calm down, and more good news!
Brittani Nichols, world-renowned heartthrob, joined me in bed last week! We talked about Suicide Kale, Take My Wife, and I horrified Brittani with ghost stories and tales of oil pulling! Woo!
Whether or not period syncing is allegedly a lie, the secret lives of hot people, aftercare for everyone, how to have casual sex, how to win at relationship fight club and more.
“You look like a little orphan boy but you’re so beautiful!”
Between network shows, streaming-service originals, and your favorite sports, it’s tough to find a TV option that lets you watch everything you care about — especially if you don’t want to pay a huge cable bill or own a TV. Here are your options, broken down by cost, offerings and LGBT content!
A few things about therapy from someone who’s been going regularly for five years.
Queer women continue to be mostly background noise on TV this year, Valerie Anne has some thoughts about that final episode of Black Sails, Gina Rodriguez is Carmen Sandiego, and that episode of Survivor.
We’ve got Mike Pence as the Demagorgon, leprosy-based seduction (like you do), and threesomes with your boss!
I’ve been resuming a lot of childhood activities recently: going to concerts, playing video games, reading books for hours, spending time outdoors, shopping in the boys’ department at Gap Kids. Anyone else? Get in here and tell me about it!
“I always felt better after exercising, but also always felt it came at a cost, whether that was a really dirty locker room, an overly fluorescent space playing terrible music, or having to navigate a highly gendered space and endure sexist, homophobic commentary. I wanted to create a space that felt really good to be in, like you were actually going to feel better while being there.”
“I’m single as f*ck. I could not be more single. This is the longest I’ve been super single.”
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?