Mama Outsider: Learning Black Zen in a White House
“Why some people mean? One income that isn’t a livable wage plus racism will do that to you, and you can’t imagine the rage until you’ve lived it.”
Listling With Minimal Commentary: 39 Completely Context-Free Tabloid Headlines
Every day, I comb the tabloids all across the internet, thirstily hunting for any news of Kristen Stewart’s potential public makeouts and/or Evan Rachel Wood’s forthcoming announcement that she’s ready to take me on a date. In the process, I also found these headlines. Today I’m ready to share them with you.
Lez Liberty Lit #97: Build Original Worlds
RIP Bookslut, what matters in lesbian love letters, histories of queer comics, explaining without mansplaining and more.
Faking It Episode 309 Recap: So Can We Be Girlfriends?
This week on Faking It, Amy gets a girlfriend! Kinda!
Pop Culture Fix: Kristen Stewart’s Favorite Words are “Dude” and “F-ck”
A couple of excellent profiles of Kristen Stewart and Sarah Paulson, a new trailer for the second season of Scream, a Fingersmith adaptation you’re going to want to see, and more queer pop culture news.
Our Favorite Queer TV Characters And Their (Hypothetical) Favorite Sex Toys
Let’s talk about our favorite queer characters on television and their (possible, probable) favorite Pleasure Chest sex toys!
Witch Hunt: We Are the Weirdos
“We wanted to be pagans too or witches, maybe. Anything that would make us feel powerful because mostly we felt like we were at everybody else’s mercy. We wanted skirts and big boots, like ‘I will french kiss you and then stomp on your face.’ I wanted to be Neve Campbell. I wanted it to be real.”
This Business of Art Fix #28: What If Your Most Important Financial Relationship Is With The Reader
Topics include why people pay for the New York Times but won’t pay for Buzzfeed, liberal bias in Facebook’s trending topics, how Bitch Magazine got started, being productive in your home office, how to turn a negative conversation around and so much more!
Brianna Hildebrand has a Girlfriend: “Deadpool” Actress Is Out on Twitter, NBD
Maybe being out is the new coming out.
No Filter: Rhea Butcher Crashes The Rockford Peaches Reunion
We’ve got the latest on Kristen Stewart’s relationship status, Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey hawking wigs for dogs, a swan trying to make friends with Hari Nef and Lindsay Lohan’s spiritual feelings about clouds.
Rebel Girls Reading List: The True Tales of 8 Women Who Ran (Parts of) the World
These memoirs, biographies, and autobiographies tell the stories of women who ran countries around the world — from the top.
Boob(s On Your) Tube: “Orphan Black” Wonders Who’s The Science Now, Bitch?
Charlotte is dying of Cosimafluenza now too!
The Other Shoe Drops: North Carolina and Mississippi Both Face Federal Lawsuits for Anti-LGBT Laws
Attorney General Loretta Lynch says some truly awesome words to trans people and against North Carolina’s HB2, The ACLU of Mississippi is challenging the state’s “religious freedom” law, a group of parents and students filed a federal lawsuit because they believe they’re being discriminated when a trans girl uses the correct facilities at their school and more news.
Orange Is the New Black’s Season Four Trailer is Dark and Full of Secrets
Hey, but at least Poussey and Soso are going to make out a little bit.
The True Price of Salt: On the Book that Became “Carol”
“There are many American readers for whom The Price of Salt would still be a revolutionary, shocking, immoral novel, the kinds of readers who have never, to their knowledge, met a lesbian or bisexual or pansexual woman before and who imagine us all as monstrous caricatures.”
View From The Top: Canes Are Sticks!
I had always put boundaries on my sadism — until I started seeing impact toys everywhere.
Playlist: Workout Songs to Stay Home and Dance to
These workout songs will make you want to wave your hands/arms/whole body in the air like you just don’t care.
Drawn to Comics: Announcing Tillie Walden’s All-New Figure Skating Graphic Memoir, “Spinning”
“So often I’ve tried to explain figure skating to my friends or family and I never felt like they got it… But it was as if I was always describing something too huge to put in to words. So I’m excited to be able to show it all, share everything that I’ve wanted to say but couldn’t find the words for.”
Stigma and Sisterhood: Life for Trans Women Since 1994’s “I Don’t Wanna Be a Boy”
“It took watching I Don’t Wanna Be A Boy to show me that the negative attitudes towards trans women have always been pervasive in society, that from 1994 to 2016 there hasn’t been much change in how society views us. But it also taught me that we share a sisterhood of sorts. No matter what time and what place, trans women of color are connected by our similar experiences.”
Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #8
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