Helping You Help Yourself #38
Let’s all help each other and ourselves this week.
Lessons For Our Future From the Disability Intersectionality Summit
Listen as you build your movements, clarify your priorities, and fight for that future so many of us thought was already here.
32 Recipes That Prove PB&J Is A Perfect Combo
Practically perfect in every way.
Don’t Relax Just Because Pathological Liar Donald Trump Says He Won’t Go After Marriage Equality
The ways Trump’s administration will hurt gay and trans people go far beyond marriage equality — and he’s proven we can’t believe a word he says.
There Will Be Blood, the Bike Ride: Cyclists for Menstrual Cycles
How the Sustainable Cycles bike collective is making menstruation products accessible and fighting stigma.
Be the Change: 5 Ways to Stand Up to Trump’s Tyranny Right Now
Let’s start a discussion about what we can do as activists, right now in this moment, in the wake of the apocalypse/election.
NSFW Sunday Is Still Not Having Sex Even Though The Election Is Over
Victorian ideas about sex, cranberry juice and UTIs, whether it’s time to have sex or not right now and more.
Take a Break from the Apocalypse and Soak Up Some Good Gay News This Sunday Funday
This week f*cking sucked. Here’s some levity, some light, some love, and some puppies to make it all better for a minute.
VIDEO: It’s A Cold And It’s A Broken Hallelujah
Kate McKinnon’s cold open on tonight’s Saturday Night Live wasn’t funny at all, but it was something else.
Recurring Electronic Donations: Create a Subscription Service to Your Rights
How to use the technology of recurring monthly payments to build a subscription service to all the rights they’re gonna try to take from us.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Blue
“No way.”
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.