Saturday Morning Cartoons: Cat
“…now that you’re all settled, you guys gonna get that cat you’ve been talking about?”
Boob(s On Your) Tube: Root and Shaw Are Getting Ready To Rip Each Other’s Clothes Off
Person of Interest really, truly is going gay. Orphan Black’s fourth season continues to be spectacular. Brittani Nichols is in a new series on IFC. Raven-Symone returns to Black-ish. And even more queer TV!
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: A Selfie Story About You
Help me embrace the selfie by telling me all about your week using selfies. Or, you know, whatever else you wanna talk about. GET IN HERE!
The Comment Awards Strongly Believes in Breakfast Foods for Dinner
We’ve got brilliant ideas relating to socks, procrastination, pizza prepared by Mariah Carey and so much more!
Things I Read That I Love #200: Humour Can Be a Callous Protection Against The Terrible
Topics include Tonya / Marcia / Monica / Anita, true crime TV, sugar, marijuana, Ben & Jerrys, rape culture, identity clickbait, Lifetime and more!
Prom Roundtable: The Magical Night Of Memories of Our Collective Lives
“My date got incredibly drunk and ended up passing out in the back of the limo, facedown in my boobs. It was not the romantic prom story I felt I’d been promised.”
LGBT Youth Get New GSA Name and Tagline; LGBT Elders Get Left Out of Key Legislation
The GSA is now more inclusive of all genders and sexualities but the Older Americans Act isn’t inclusive of LGBT elders; Islan Nettles’ killer will go to prison for 12 years; progress on Merrick Garland’s confirmation, a congresswoman crusading against online harassment and more.
Prince Is Dead, We Must Find Our Eyeliner And Keep Dancing
“Prince — the musician, the icon, the gender-bending dreamboat — taught me that the best and only thing I can be is exactly whatever I am. It doesn’t have to make sense to anyone else as long as it keeps me alive and sparkling.”
Soggy Bottoms: Rough Puff Pastry Is Like Classic Puff Pastry, But Easier
This is ROUGH PUFF (ruff puff? rough pough?) and it’s a lot less precise than “regular puff,” and therefore it’s easier for the first-timer. Like you. Like us.
Follow Your Arrow: Artist and Priestess Rebekah Erev on Making Spirituality Accessible to All
“I think a lot of us [queers] have turned to art as a place to find meaning and access other realms. Art explains the unexplainable and gives us a space to explore the mysteries we are so fascinated by.”
7 Feminist Conundrums I Faced Playing “Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate” (With a Female Character!)
Evie is perfectly capable of defeating every enemy in this quest on her own and she’s not going to make it harder on herself just so she can make a man feel included in her triumphs! I did not “use Henry’s distraction.”
Playlist: The Last La Croix is Gone
You drag your limp body as penance from the bed into the kitchen to pray at its effervescent, sodium-free altar — but the gods are not pleased. The last La Croix is gone.
Faking It Episode 306 Recap: This Is Where The Kissing Usually Happens
This week on “Faking It,” everybody goes to a haunted hook-up party and it turns out Amy isn’t the only lady-loving lady in Hester High. Also, the mid-season trailer teases some girl-on-girl action.
Pop Culture Fix: Mother May I Sleep With Lifetime’s Feminist Lineup
Topics include 55 LGBT Power Couples, Janet Mock in People’s Most Beautiful Issue, all the rad new TV shows a freshly feminist Lifetime channel is making for you, a film called “Women Who Kill” that sounds f*cking spectacular and so much more!
In A World Lacking Lesbian Rom Coms, I Made My Own
“Sidetrack is a show largely about my life and my experiences, because after years of watching so much television that erased me, I just wanted to write myself in.”
Notes From A Queer Engineer: Bunker Logistics on “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”
When I think about life underground, I find myself nerdily enthralled with the idea of handling the logistics for such a huge endeavor.
Fool’s Journey: A Simple Tarot Spread for Focus
Butterfly brain? Too many ideas? Here’s a quick tarot spread you can do to figure out what to focus on, what to ditch, and what to put on the back-burner for tomorrow.
No Filter: Samira Wiley’s Birthday Smile Melts Your Heart
A dispatch from Coachella about Kirsten Stewart and Soko, Hari Nef wants to talk about hair removal, Jiz Lee on a car and Ellen Page is on a road trip.
Read a F*cking Book: “Oscar of Between” Embraces Transitional Spaces
Warland, and Oscar of Between, is refreshingly unconcerned with being there already. Instead, she deep-dives into the potency of occupying transitional spaces, the beauty of being in-between.
Boob(s On Your) Tube: Two Women Actually Touched Mouths on “Once Upon a Time”
Ruby and Dorothy smooch on Once Upon a Time, Haught gets closer to Waverly on Wynonna Earp, and where the heck is Luisa?