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Literature

Things I Read That I Love #335: Big Pants, the Disney Adult-Industrial Complex, Fancy Dorms and Flo

Andrea Long Chu on the critic and her publics, Rich Juzwiak on quitting, Caity Weaver on Flo from Progressive. Also: the re-ascendence of large pants, Kowloon Walled City, High Point University’s luxury dorms for America, a teen’s fatal plunge into the London underworld and more longreads for you.

Riese March 15, 2024 2 Comments
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Movie News & Trailers

Bound Joins the Criterion Collection, a Win for Sapphic Cinephiles

It will become the 9th film directed by and about queer women to join the collection. Listen, I know this is important for Cinema reasons, but it’s important for Horny reasons, too.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 15, 2024 2 Comments
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Politics + Activism

Nothing the Medical Examiner Can Report Will Change Nex Benedict’s Cause of Death

It feels safe to say that Nex died as a direct result of trauma from the physical altercation at the school. Maybe not just the one, maybe so many more. Maybe years of bullying, of ostracization, of feeling unwelcome and out of place at the school he was required to attend every day.

Riese and Carmen Phillips
March 15, 2024 2 Comments
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Movie Reviews

“Love Lies Bleeding” Is a Queer and Carnal Neo-Noir Western

Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian have explosive chemistry, gazing at each other with an intensity that feels both too soon and eternal.

Jourdain Searles March 15, 2024 14 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

Kyle Richards Says She Was Curious To Kiss Morgan Wade in “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” Reunion

Kyle Richards answers questions about whether she and Morgan Wade are dating in the season 13 reunion.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 15, 2024
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AF+ Friendship

Help! My Friends Won’t Shut Up

Plus advice about leaving a controlling partner and getting second dates.

the team March 15, 2024 2 Comments
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Dating

25 Things About Being Chronically Single

“I’m not sure that people who’ve spent most of their lives in relationships receive this same type of ‘Why?'”

swan huntley March 15, 2024 21 Comments
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Health

What to Expect When You Feel a Lump

If I was going to consider the possibility of having cancer then I wanted to be sure all treatment options were on the table without anyone else’s view of what it means to be a woman getting in the way.

Katie March 15, 2024 1 Comment
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword Prefers Moist Cake

Not to brag but I made six figures last year.

Kate Hawkins March 15, 2024 3 Comments
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TV Reviews

“Apples Never Fall” Wants To Be “Big Little Lies” but Has Bad Little Writing

When watching Apples Never Fall, the new Peacock series based on a novel by Big Little Lies author Liane Moriarty, I kept thinking about the woman who put $50,000 in a shoebox and handed it to her scammers.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 14, 2024 3 Comments
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Comedy TV Reviews

“Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agenda” Brings Brilliant Trans Comics to the Famously Transphobic Netflix

Give jobs to trans comics not because it’ll end the protests at your executive offices but because they’re really fucking funny and good at what they do.

Motti March 14, 2024 2 Comments
TV Reviews

“The Girls on the Bus” Doesn’t Get My Vote Despite Its All-Star Cast

If The Girls on the Bus was a workplace drama featuring these four characters — played by these four engaging actresses — then I’d tell you, without reservation, to watch it. But its efforts to showcase journalism and the political landscape fall flat.

Natalie March 14, 2024 4 Comments
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Movie Reviews

“Frida” Documentary Lets the Queer Disabled Communist Speak

The film doesn’t force her to always be Frida Kahlo, famous artist. She’s allowed to just be Frida.

Drew Burnett Gregory March 14, 2024 3 Comments
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Movie Features Theater

Peaches Christ and Mink Stole vs. Death

Peaches Christ wants to make sure artists young and old, dead and living, are properly celebrated. That’s true whether she’s mentoring future Drag Race winners or writing a show with her idol turned friend, Mink Stole.

Drew Burnett Gregory March 14, 2024 1 Comment
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TV Reviews

“Girls5eva” Season Three Is Gay and on a Mission

On the new season of Girls5Eva, Gloria is determined to sleep with every type of girl from “pre-Friends Courtney Cox” to “cigar mommis.”

Valerie Anne March 14, 2024 2 Comments
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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Major Update On Kristen Stewart’s ‘Chronology of Water’ Dreams Coming True

Kristen Stewart’s interview with The Colbert Show is SO GOOD y’all, Gabrielle Union and Eva Longoria are working on an LGBTQ+ wedding movie, Ayo Edebri makes pasta for you, Sophia Bush and Ashlyn Harris hit up the red carpet, JoJo Siwa is going adult and more pop culture stories for your day!

Riese March 13, 2024 3 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

The Traitors Season Two Reunion Recap: Peppermint Underscores the Biases That Led to Her Elimination

“It kind of eerily reminded me of a high school experience where I was the only out LGBTQ person at the time,” Peppermint says.

Anya Richkind March 13, 2024 1 Comment
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Movie Features

Race and Appropriation at the Academy Awards: A 96 Year History

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Riese March 13, 2024 109 Comments
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Movie Features

Why Do We Both Have a False Memory of Girls Kissing in Æon Flux (2005)?

Maybe none of us can really remember movies from the 2000s. Maybe they were all fever dreams.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Drew Burnett Gregory
March 13, 2024 1 Comment
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TV Reviews

Elise Bauman on CBC’s ‘One More Time’ Should Be Your New Obsession

It’s so exciting to see a performer with Bauman’s comedic skills get a character that allows her to really play.

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