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!
I’ve missed you so much. Get in here and tell me everything!
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.
It takes hard work to maintain any partnership — whether it’s between lovers or friends or the person you shared a uterus with.
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.
What do you do when your girlfriend has a small vaginal opening and wants to have penetrative sex?
“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.”
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.
This year at A-Camp, we’re tasting whiskeys that are or have been historically piloted by women. No boys’ club spirits this year!
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.
A personal take on showing up, hiking through it, and knots and how to tie them.
Can you capture some of the magic of A-Camp’s Diarist Hike where you live? Based on my experiences, I’d say yes.
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.
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.
Celesbian dogs we’ve known.
Ah, that beautiful transition in your monthly cycle where increasingly the things you cry at shift from understandable to irrational.
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.
How do real-life communities based off of online ones maintain safe and inclusive spaces? Let’s talk about it!
Poetry slams and open mics for queer poets of all stripes to try out.
Knowing that these A-Camp All-Stars live parts of their lives off the mountain and reading comics, I decided to ask some of them what their very favorite comics are.