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Geekery

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.”

Heather Hogan April 21, 2016 69 Comments
Playlists

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.

Erin April 21, 2016 36 Comments
TV Show Recaps

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.

Riese April 20, 2016 29 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

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!

Riese April 20, 2016 14 Comments
First Person

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.”

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya April 20, 2016 14 Comments
Geekery

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.

Laura Mandanas April 20, 2016 43 Comments
Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

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.

Beth April 20, 2016 17 Comments
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

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.

Stef April 20, 2016 12 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

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.

Maree April 20, 2016 3 Comments
TV Show Recaps

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?

Heather Hogan April 19, 2016 72 Comments
Politics + Activism

Lesbian Firefighter Wins the Day and Her Discrimination Lawsuit, Awarded Over $800,000

A lesbian firefighter was harassed and discriminated against for years by her co-workers and her complaints were ignored by her superiors; Tennessee’s “bathroom bill” is dead, at least for now; Ani DiFranco cancelled an upcoming show in North Carolina, Georgia is investigating the treatment of LGBT prisoners in their prisons and more news.

Yvonne April 19, 2016 4 Comments
AF+

A+ Inbox LIVE! #5: It Was a Wild Summer

On this week’s show, we discuss deciding not to date someone who doesn’t believe in evolution,me being hypnotized ,and how all those U-Haul jokes fuck with our concept of “too soon” when it comes to, well, U-Hauling.

Laneia April 19, 2016 25 Comments
Sex

Bottoms Up: I Am My Best Sex

Being single, solo submission, masturbation, and how you can be your own best and favorite top.

Ari April 19, 2016 14 Comments
Geekery Shopping

Relevant To Your Interests: The Nerdiest Mugs That Ever Mugged

Nerd tea inspired me to find y’all the best nerd mugs out there. And there are a lot of them.

A.E. Osworth April 19, 2016 44 Comments
Geekery

Let Me Google That For You, Pt. 4

In the final installment of this series – I am going to answer, without any browsing activity bias, the top 5 googled queries beginning with, “Should I –,

Isabel April 19, 2016 18 Comments
Geekery

Drawn to Comics: Support the ChaosLife Kickstarter if You Love Cats, Comics, and Agender Folks

ChaosLife is a hilarious, beautifully drawn, super well-written comic that touches on so many things that queer people (and cat owners) experience on a daily basis. I love this comic and I know you will too!

Mey April 19, 2016 12 Comments
Gender

Keyonna Blakeney, Just 22, Becomes the Latest Black Trans Woman Murdered in the US

Blakeney becomes the 9th trans person reported murdered this year, meaning that if this pace keeps up, 2016 will break the horrible record that last year set of most trans murders reported in the United States in one year.

Mey April 18, 2016 13 Comments
Health

When Medicine Doesn’t Speak the Right Language for My Body

“Forming new habits isn’t easy, especially when your entire profession runs on a highly specialized vocabulary — but you know what else isn’t easy? Listening to how “abnormal” my body is.”

Carrie April 18, 2016 23 Comments
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Campership Alert: TomboyX Wants You To Salute Your [Under]Shorts At A-Camp

Win full A-Camp Tuition with the TomboyX Campership, plus a tee, a hat and — you guessed it — underpants.

A.E. Osworth April 18, 2016 6 Comments
Culture

Our Hands, Ourselves: A Deeply Unscientific Investigation of Identity

“I can never remember which finger is supposed to make me gay. I guess this is part of the whole indecisive bisexual thing.”

Erin April 18, 2016 100 Comments
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