Saturday Morning Cartoons: Formal Wear
As a genderqueer human, clothes have always made me feel weird.
Friday Open Thread: Callout Post: I Love My Friends (Let me Know if You Do Too)
It’s Friday Open Thread time, which means it’s time to all compliment your friends!
“Orange Is The New Black” 408 Review: “Friends in Low Places”
Spoiler alert: Piper is the woooorst.
The Comment Awards Loves A Good Frozen Yogurt
This week we have adorable prom stories, comment poetry, arts and crafts, Game of hotness and so much more!
Also.Also.Also: New Yorkers Getting Free Tampons and Gender Neutral Restrooms and Other Stories for Your Friday
LINKS! I’ve got some for you! NYC is becoming a utopia of free tampons and gender neutral restrooms, fat-positivity in reproductive justice, Janet Mock on Stonewall, female graffiti artists, Gaby Dunn loves A-Camp, and mama bears using humans to protect their cubs.
Democrats Sit In Over Gun Legislation while SCOTUS Releases Rulings Left and Right
So much news today! The Democrats’ sit-in in the House over gun legislation, SCOTUS rulings on affirmative action, the status of many undocumented people in the US, the Dollar General case, as well as rulings related to Freddie Gray’s death and trans kids using bathrooms at school, and more.
“Orange is the New Black” Episode 407 Review: “It Sounded Nicer in My Head”
All the women of Litchfield deserve so much better.
This Business of Art Fix #31: Bustle Sure Is Good At SEO and Other Important Stories
Topics include my personal problems with Bustle’s SEO strategy, beating airport boredom, Gawker Media filing for bankruptcy and more!
Lez Liberty Lit #100: One Hundred Bookshelves Full of Queer Lit
Books to read for Pride, searching for representation, cotton candy queer lit, books as taxidermy, books and reading and food and eating, and more.
6 Songs That Prove Baby Boomers Needed “Parental Advisory” Labels Themselves
These songs are essentially our generation’s “feel a little poke coming through” in “Too Close” by Next.
Pop Culture Fix: Samira Wiley Joins “You’re The Worst,” Talks OITNB Season Four With Everybody
Plus Laverne Cox and Queen Latifah hang out, Person of Interest ends on a kind of happy sapphic note, the actresses who play Daenerys Targaryen and Yara Greyjoy are shipping it too, a new adorable clip from Finding Dory and more queer pop culture news!
No Filter: The Day Leisha Hailey’s Childhood Haircut Broke The Internet
Also, Tegan and Sara are riding a bus filled with twins, Ruby Rose is making dad jokes and Laura Jane Grace is stuck in a freezer.
“Orange Is The New Black” Episode 406 Review: Piece of Sh*t
No Hope Allowed.
Lindsay Lohan’s My Avi: More Internet Haikus
Life is but a meme.
Rebel Girls: These 6 Queer and Trans Trailblazers Made Political History
In my last installment of Rebel Girls, I briefed you on some of the badass glass ceiling crashers currently serving in office who are queer as f*ck. These six women came before them.
Playlist: Queer Summer Suburban Ennui
This playlist accompanies all of the feelings I have being queer in suburbia: gay, lonely, bored, and confused by my neighbors’ dedications to their lawns.
Boob(s On Your) Tube: The Mother of Dragons is Probably Totally Bisexual
Is Game of Thrones going there with Yara and Daenerys? Seems like maybe! Waverly and Haught make out twice on Wynonna Earp. Catherine and Marjorie’s story takes center stage on Veep. And Audrey gets A-ed on Scream.
Summer Merch Is Here: Scissoring Muscle Tanks, Tomboy Femme Crop Tops, & SO MANY Enamel Pins!
We have two new tops to blow your mind in colors that make you wanna eat a popsicle in the sunshine. Plus enamel pins and A-Camp swag!
“Orange Is The New Black” 405 Review: “We’ll Always Have Baltimore”
An over-stuffed episode that needs more Maritza, but excels at its menstrual narrative.
Trump Campaign Faces Firings, Lack of Funds, General Derision
Things aren’t going great for Donald Trump’s campaign this week, the dangerous SCOTUS ruling that says evidence obtained illegally can be used in court, Tamara Dominguez’s murderer charged, and more.