View From The Top: Playing Through Depression
It’s almost impossible to master while grieving. When that grief turns into a depression, is it even M/s anymore?
20 Excerpts from Kayla’s Elementary School Journals, 1998-2003
With illustrations!
5 Portable Card Games to Play Anywhere, Anytime
My favorite card games to play with queers in parks and bars in honor of the brand new Oregon Trail card game.
Drawn to Comics Retrospective: The Top 10 Drawn To Comics From the First 3 Years
I can’t believe I’ve written around 150 of these????
Countdown to Baby T. Rex: The Seven Stages of Waiting (41 Weeks)
Our Leo/Virgo cusp baby is definitely moving into Virgo territory.
Fall 2016 Book Preview: 48 Queer and Feminist Books To Add To Your Reading List
Welcome to your list of queer and/or feminist books coming out in fall 2016. New Zadie Smith, Ivan Coyote, Anne Carson, Margaret Atwood, Bae Suah and more.
Love Letters Across the Atlantic: How Distance Changes Your Relationship
“To date long distance then live with the other in person is to be in two versions of the same relationship. One wishes desperately for the future and is fueled by daydreams of the past; the other tries to make every waking moment something special and ignores the fact that time is passing, whether we like it or not.”
Clea DuVall’s “The Intervention” Is Fun But Flawed (And Super White)
It’s wonderful to see two queer women dealing with complex and honest relationship problems that are treated with the same nuance and depth as those of the straight couples on screen, but DuVall never quite manages to step out of the shadow of The Big Chill.
Stylish-of-Center: Back to School Tomboy Butch Looks for the Fashionably On Time
One morning I woke up and realized I was completely unsatisfied with (almost) my entire closet, and have since been on a journey to find my style-of-center, mixing Goodwill finds with brand-name bits from the sale rack.
I Promise You’re On the Right Side of History: 23 Things to Eat if You Do Like Potatoes
I’m from Idaho and in Idaho we learn that you can survive on just potatoes and butter? All the nutrients you need are in potatoes except for a couple, which are all in butter. Is that true?
I Promise You’re Not the Only One: 23 Things to Eat if You Don’t Like Potatoes
Every time they offer me a potato chip or french fry, it’s like a well-meaning relative insisting that “you just haven’t met the right guy yet.” Sorry, Aunt Helen, but it’s not a matter of the right guy or the right potato.
Sunday Funday Celebrates Bea Arthur’s LGBT Shelter And Pride Month Forever
Bless Bea Arthur, bless lesbian farmers, bless pride, bless BeLL, bless pro-LGBT lawmakers, BLESS IT ALL.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Talking Politics And Pleasure
Queer porn, feminist porn, politics and pleasure, being a good submissive, gender equality and sexual education and more.
5 More Apps To Make You Better At Money
These apps will make managing money less scary and stressful. Plus a bonus budgeting podcast by Gaby Dunn!
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Identity
What about you? How do you identify?
News Fix: A French Court Gets Rid of Burkini Bans
A French court says bye bye to burkini bans, Purvi Patel could be released as early as next month, two Orlando hospitals will cover medical bills of Pulse shooting victims and their families, a federal judge ok’s a trans employee’s firing and more news.
The Comment Awards is Surrounded by Boxes, Considers Building a Fort
Welcome, scholars!
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: So Like Did You Miss Me Or What
Please spill all of the piping hot tea you’ve gotta spill. Please feel free to open the lid on the salt shaker and just let it loose. I want the hot goss, honestly. Just get in here and TELL ME YOUR LIFE.
Things I Read That I Love #209: Take Your Ghastly Revolutionary Ideas Out To The Garden
Topics include Munchausen by proxy and murder, Shop Jeen, every restaurant in Epcot Center, Joanne the Scammer, housing segregation, little people in Hollywood and so much more!
You Need Help: What To Do About the Jerk in Your Friend Group
What’s a compassionate queer to do when an insecure friend starts to make the whole group miserable?