Things I Read That I Love #195: Turning From Something Ugly Into Something Beautiful
Topics include PeeWee Herman, Winona Ryder, “Making a Murderer,” dating TV shows, the 1966 University of Texas shooting and moar!
The A+ Bee Issue 35: Galentine’s Day Edition
This issue contains the triumphant return of Laura and Luna (now with more Clexa), a Leslie and Ann coloring page, a word search, and a playlist from Stef’s heart to yours.
Read A F*cking Book: “The Mystics of Mile End”
In Sigal Samuel’s The Mystics of Mile End, three members of the Meyer family encounter Jewish mysticism, and are drawn apart in their very different quests for the divine.
Indie Journalists Revolt, Convince GLAAD To Bring Back Indie Journalist Award
In which GLAAD messes up and independent media strikes back so now other indie blogs will get a chance to get their hands on this very heavy trophy.
Follow Your Arrow: Pathfinder Pace Smith On Chasing Your Heart’s Calling
“Own it, grrl. The world is getting queerer and queerer, and all the big businesses that refuse to acknowledge that are in their death throes. Your time is coming. Follow your heart. Do what you love. Start now.”
The Impossible Math of Gay Soulmates
Maybe the reason your friend/the older self-professed queen at the bar/your co-worker/that girl Claire won’t stop talking about finding someone is because they have 25 times more Keurig flavor options than the whole of their supposed dating pool — we’re scientifically improbable.
Georgia Goes to Town with Anti-Gay Bills, Blocks LGBT Public Accommodations Protections
Georgia really wants to protect religious leaders from having to perform same-sex marriages, a rundown of the New Hampshire primary, a transgender lesbian couple faced constant harassment and vandalism at their home so they installed cameras to stop the culprits, hackers leaked info about the biggest police union and more news!
Anonymous Sex Toy Review: The Ina Wave
Innovative new sex toy or lobster claw clamped on your clit?
Read a F*cking Book: “(RE)Sisters” Knows That to Be Queer Is to Be Powerful
Through rule-breaking, more than one unauthorized hot air balloon flight, and a lot of other creative and brave attempts at escape, (RE)Sisters reveals truths about what we know, but may not always be able to say: that we are itching to break free of the implicit and explicit confines the white supremacist, patriarchal, heterosexist, cissexist, ableist, imperialist world puts on us.
Pretty Little Liars Episode 615 Recap: Mashed Up Jell-O
An emoji steals Emily’s ovaries.
Laying Down My Bullshit and Dancing at Dawn
“In Berlin people talk about it, expats especially, in hushed, reverent tones. The sound system, which is supposed to be one of the best in the world. The DJ acts you’ve never heard of with names like Fuck Buttons. And that magical moment in the morning when the blinds at Panorama Bar are yanked open and the suddenly-illuminated, all-night revelers start to cheer.”
No Filter: Gabby Rivera Is Two CVS Receipts Tall
We’ve got Ruby Rose with a blue tongue, Angel Haze signing boobs and some dogs and muppets alllll ready for ya.
Pop Culture Fix: Mattel Isn’t Selling Abby Wambach Barbies and Lily-Rose Depp Isn’t Gay
Topics include Lily-Rose Depp, Barbie being full of lies, hipster homophobia, Beyoncé, Zoolander 2, relationships and Netflix, BriaAndChrissy, Professor Sprout and more!
“New Girl” Joins The Exciting Trend of Meaningful Sexual Fluidity On TV
New Girl, How to Get Away With Murder, and The 100 have all brought more depth and nuance to queerness than the majority of Lesbian Kiss Episodes have ever achieved.
Lesbian Bars I Definitely Made Up But Probably Exist
“Yearn is honestly a little too much. Yearn is the bar equivalent of Marina’s voice on Jenny’s voicemail that one time when she’s like, “Jenny. I was just… thinking about you.”
Boob(s On Your) Tube: “The 100” Swears Lesbian Fealty
Clarke and Lexa make it official, Sara Lance saves the day, Nyssa makes a deal to kill the devil, Karen crushes Restaurant Wars, and more queer TV happenings!
“The Fosters” Episode 313 Recap: The Mama Bear’s Mama Bear
Stef and Lena keep not telling their kids that Stef has cancer.
Bottoms Up: That Time I Told My Boifriend I Liked Being Told What to Do
How do you tell someone, “Hey, I’d love it if you’d slap me around and tell me what to do”?
Turns out, you tell them just like that.
Trans Texas Prisoners (Technically, Kind Of) Have Access to Hormone Therapy Now
Texas prisoners who didn’t have access to hormone therapy before a new policy change, can now access it, a full debrief on the Republican and Democratic debates, some good and bad bills for LGBT people, Kayden Clarke, a young trans man, was killed by police and more news!
“Jane The Virgin” Shifts its Love Triangle in a Revolutionary Queer Direction
Jane the Virgin has put a pin in its Rafael-Jane-Michael love triangle and turned its attention to a Rose-Luisa-Susanna one.