The Comment Awards Love You to Death
This week we’ve got snapchat haikus, bison jokes and so much more!
Things I Read That I Love #203: The Feeling That Your Body Is Running You
Topics include bias risk-predictors employed by sentencing judges, The Rainforest Cafe, Black Trauma Remixed For Your Clicks, journalism, how/why millionaire athletes go broke, IBS, the man with ten wives and more!
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Hello, It’s Me, I’ve Been on a Mountain and I Want to Know Your Life
I’ve missed you so much. Get in here and tell me everything!
Also. Also. Also: Amandla Stenberg Thinks Your Hair is Perfect and Other Stories For Your Friday
It’s officially Pride month! Obama says so! Also Stonewall Inn gets official, bisexual bisons, immigrant-owned tamale co-ops, feminist Hogwarts slogans, Canadian indigenous people in video games, Amandla Stenberg has some hair and life advice for you, Brazilian women demand an end to rape culture, free food for Pride, supporting incarcerated LGBT parents, new emojis, and vagina manga memoirs.
Tegan and Sara Explore All Types of Queer Intimacy in “Love You to Death”
It takes hard work to maintain any partnership — whether it’s between lovers or friends or the person you shared a uterus with.
10 Female Characters in The X-Files I’ve Decided Are Lesbians or Bisexual
I can believe in aliens, but I cannot believe that the lady with the mullet who lives in the woods with her young female assistant and trains dogs is straight.
You Need Help: Issues With Strap-On Size
What do you do when your girlfriend has a small vaginal opening and wants to have penetrative sex?
Top 10 Foods We’re Not Ashamed to Eat In Public as Fat People
“I will lick that shit out of any allegedly “empty” sauce container of aioli regardless of its size in comparison to my tongue and how many people watch in horror or confusion when I refuse to let its gelatinous goodness remain clinging to the sides of its serving dish where it would otherwise remain unused, unwanted and unappreciated.”
How We Make Faith Tangible As Queers With Christian Roots: A Roundtable
When faith, spirituality, and cultural practice feel complicated and contradictory, it can help to have a physical object to hold onto and reflect upon. These items can root us to our histories of faith — or they may simply be a symbol of old memories.
Liquor On The Mountain: Whiskey Women
This year at A-Camp, we’re tasting whiskeys that are or have been historically piloted by women. No boys’ club spirits this year!
Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for June 2016
This month is all about love as a learning process. We begin the month with Sun and Venus (our sense of self, and how we attract love) in Gemini–sign of curiosity, humor, and investigation.
The Starting Place: How an Unlikely Hiker Can Get Outdoorsy
A personal take on showing up, hiking through it, and knots and how to tie them.
Take Yourself on a Diarist’s Hike
Can you capture some of the magic of A-Camp’s Diarist Hike where you live? Based on my experiences, I’d say yes.
Notes From A Queer Engineer Recommends “Lab Girl”
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren is one of the most exquisite pieces of science writing I’ve ever read. As a researcher and professor of geobiology for the past 20 years, Jahren has earned accolades for her work. Here, she shares her passion.
10 Steps to Starting Your Own All-Grrl A Cappella Group
Just because you aren’t on the Mountain right now doesn’t mean you can’t be a part of your very own music and magic making group of friends. I promise you won’t regret it.
No Filter: Some Important Dogs
Celesbian dogs we’ve known.
For You: A Menstruation Cry Calendar
Ah, that beautiful transition in your monthly cycle where increasingly the things you cry at shift from understandable to irrational.
Reuse, Recycle, Repoussé: Beer Can Earrings
This week at A-Camp, we’ll be using all these cans to make simple repoussé earrings. If you’ve got a can waiting to be recycled, bust out your scissors and join us. And if not, I bet there’s something cold in your fridge just begging for you to drink it.
Straddler Nation: Building Safe(r) Spaces for Queers IRL
How do real-life communities based off of online ones maintain safe and inclusive spaces? Let’s talk about it!
5 Queer Poetry Slams and Open Mics From Coast to Coast
Poetry slams and open mics for queer poets of all stripes to try out.