The music you listen to in your teen years mixes with your hormones and emotions and overwhelms you and permanently molds you. You make mix tapes, you go to shows, you buy band t-shirts and posters, you get ill advised tattoos. It’s a lot of fun.
At its core, the game is about following orders; do you make Stanley follow through with the narration or do you defy it?
Black artists and America, (your) feelings about typography, writers resisting, a history of feminist bookstores, representation in comics and more.
In the spirit of gathering our strength and resisting the living hell out of these next four years, I bring you our sweetest installment to date — along with some notes for the revolution.
Gaby Dunn & Allison Raskin developing a series called “Everyone’s a Liar” for YouTube Red, a same-sex hookup on America’s Next Top Model, queer dramz on Degrassi, a Will & Grace revival and other important pop culture stories for your day!
How lucky that I’m perfectly within my right as a citizen to disregard the original plot of a movie that’s been out for 28 years and choose to instead interpret their connection as romantic and not platonic.
In my opinion, a good Tinder profile is more important than good hygiene.
Topics include press freedom in the age of Trump, layoffs and restructuring at the Medium network and Fusion, The Establishment’s new membership program, email follow-ups that’ll get you in trouble, The Washington Post’s new splashy app for millennial women, and pitches we’re currently looking for!
Spend an evening with a good book and a paddle.
Also, Janelle Monáe visited the White House and Ruby Rose fired her beard.
Welp. It was fun while it lasted.
“I really really want to like going down on her, but I don’t. It feels overwhelming — the smell, the taste, the trouble breathing.”
Don’t give Trump a moment to get comfortable. Let’s start fucking shit up as soon as he starts being sworn in.
Chelsea Manning is set to be freed in May 2017 instead of finishing her 35-year sentence, which would have ended in 2045.
New year new you.
Harper Row, also known as Bluebird, came out as bisexual in December, and now in Detective Comics #948, a new trans woman supporting character, Dr. Victoria October was introduced and is joining the cast.
If you’re gonna be enrolled in a degree-granting undergraduate or graduate program come the Fall of 2017, this scholarship is for you.
In the beginning checking in all the time was useful. But after six months of it, Sarah was getting annoyed.
When the walls of my life seemed to be crumbling in on me from every angle, I knew someone would pay. That someone was usually me.
“For me, as a Black Trans Woman, to find her body not only as something worthy and magnificent (as it is), but to find someone to share that magick with, may very well be one of the only moments she has to enjoy a trying and very taxing life — one that’s always trying to kill her.”