Saturday Morning Cartoons: Baopu #21
First there was a self-care to do list. Now, here’s Baopu with an other-care to-do list.
The Comment Awards Sleeps With No Eyes Open
We’ve got genius business ideas, robots, unicorn cats and so much more!
Which TV Shows Win The LGBTQIA Alphabet Soup Contest?
“Faking It” seems to really be going for the cold when it comes to representing every letter in the LGBTQIA umbrella at least a little bit — here are 17 other shows who’ve presented a spectrum of identities.
President Obama Showed Up For Transgender Americans In a Big Way Today
President Obama released a letter of guidance about trans students to public schools, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released a rule under the Affordable Care Act that bans healthcare providers from denying coverage on the basis of gender identity.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: What are Your Favorite Youtube Videos and Pop Albums and Your Worst Fears?
I love these music videos! I’m scared of flying! Get in here and talk to me about it!
Soggy Bottoms: Mini Pear Pies
We felt Paul Hollywood staring at us with the sharp, majestic blue eyes of a Siberian husky, radiating catastrophic disappointment. Didn’t stop us though.
What Marriage Equality Had Going for It That Other Movements Don’t (Maybe)
Looking at how marriage equality came to be in comparison to other social movements, Massachusetts’ state Senate passes a bill with trans protections in public accommodations, girlfriends who are prom king and queen in Florida and more!
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.