Boob(s On Your) Tube: “Jane The Virgin” Makes Luisa A Real Human Again
Luisa gets a storyline with Rogelio, Pippy and TMI go dancing, Maggie hosts Sapphic Shabbat, and Stef wonders what Betty and Tara are getting up to.
Superqueero Roundup Recap: The World Needs Heroes
Catch up with bisexual badass Sara Lance in the ’80s, and the badass women of Arrow in the right nows.
Hate Crimes, and Protests Against Hate, Carried Out Across US After Trump’s Election
Looking at protests, Trump’s potential transition team, the National Organization for Marriage gearing up against LGBT rights, and more.
Feelings Rookie: Coping Skills
Coping is a huge part of our lives and we all have our schemes, whether they’re conscious or not. In this particularly troubling time, it’s more important than ever.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Tell Me Something Good
Lay it all out there and bring hope to our world. It’s what you do best.
The 11 Best Holidays For Coming Out To Your Family and Friends
Here’s what you do: write “I’m Gay” (or trans or bi or queer or whatever) on a piece of paper and put it inside an Easter Egg for the Easter Egg Hunt. Someone at your family gathering will find it, and it will lead to mass confusion as everyone tries to figure out who the “I” is referring to in the note. Now your Easter party is a Mystery party!
The Comment Awards Invents Time Machine
This week we’ve got feelings about the election, Supergirl and Erin. Need we say more?
Noony Norwood Becomes the 23rd Trans Woman We Know Of Killed In This Tragic, Violent Year
Attention and action around the epidemic of deadly violence towards trans women of color is more important now than ever, as we’ll only see it heightened in the coming months.
Mike Pence Will Buy Me My Lesbian Vampire Themed Tampons
The government should already be buying me my tampons, but they’re not, and so Mike Pence will.
Lez Liberty Lit: Wonder Woman for President
Literary ASMR, exclamation points and emoji, queer retellings as reclamation, Zadie Smith, recordings of Black women poets and more.
Learn Basic Embroidery With These Essential Stitches
“I get a real sense of satisfaction from making something cute and domestic, just a bit deviant. Whether it’s a cake piped with ‘Happy Fucking Birthday’ or a set of kitchen towels with embroidered ball gags and whips — I just can’t get enough.”
Rebel Girls Reading List: 16 Things Hillary Clinton Meant
Hillary Clinton is not President of the United States.
We Grieve, and Then We Get to Work
It’s heartbreaking to know that this is the country we live in — that this is the country we’ve lived in all along. But the fact that this is the country we’ve lived in all along and that we’re here to read this means that we’ve survived it so far, and that the tools to keep surviving in it are at our hands.
No Filter: Just 12 Really Cute Pictures Of Samira Wiley Because I Don’t Know What Else To Do
Honestly.
Post-Election Open Thread: We Love You And We Will Never Stop Fighting For You
Hear me: We love you. You are not alone. All hope is not lost. We will face this uncertain and terrifying future together. We will never stop fighting. We will never give up. You are our family and we will never give up.
Foolish Child #9: Co-Parenting For Nerds (Of Color)
But Dickens, what IS co-parenting?
Drawn to Comics: Annie Mok’s “No Exit” Will Make Your Heart Stronger
Mok fills each panel of her comics with so much emotion and power that reading them is a full body experience, taking you to a place either you’ve never been before or a place that’s all too familiar.
“Supergirl” Episode 205 Recap: Welcome To The Team, Danvers!
From the beginning, Supergirl has been fundamentally about three things: Women, love, and hope — and knowing how much strength is in each of those three things. Alex’s story is no different. Our story is no different.
View From The Top: Tops Have Limits, Too
“I knew she wanted it, I trusted her to know she could take what she asked for, and I wanted to give her what she wanted. But I couldn’t do it.”
Feelings Rookie: A Canyon of Grief
My problem with grief is its general shape. Grief is somehow both slippery and sharp, rolling over you with sadness then sneakily attacking your soft underbelly with its claws.