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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
A black and white photo of Frida Kahlo leaning down in grass from the Frida documentary.
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
Peaches Christ Mink Stole feature image - images of the two performers are overlapped against a purple backdrop.
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
Girls5Eva season three: Paula Pell sings into a microphone with an arm in the air against a pink and yellow background.
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

We’ve got data and timelines and infographics and conversation on topics including: white actors getting Oscars for playing people of color, white savior narratives, actors of color who actually did get nominated or win Oscars for Acting and so much more. Just updated for 2023.

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.

Riese March 13, 2024
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Kehlani’s New Album Is Mixing 🚨

Also, I find it very interesting Reneé Rapp and Towa Bird both chose to post solo images to grid…

Christina Tucker March 13, 2024
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Movie Features

An Ode to Kristen Stewart’s Nervous Tics

Kristen Stewart’s nervous tics are not just her signature. They’re also the element that grounds each of her characters in reality.

Rendy Jones March 13, 2024 2 Comments
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LGBTQ+ Businesses The Scene

All 37 Surviving Lesbian Bars In the U.S.

Building on the work of so many queer archivists, writers, and historians, we have created this list, meant to be an ongoing record, of lesbian bars operating in the U.S. today.

Riese and Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
March 13, 2024 29 Comments
1 across / 5 letters / clue: Events for Sha'Carri Richardson and CeCé Telfer
Puzzles

Mini Crossword is Much Inclined

I was asked in a job interview if I could perform under pressure.

Darby Ratliff March 13, 2024
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LGBT Book Reviews

New Book “Solidarity” Is Necessary Read, Even if It’s Difficult To Apply to All Liberation Movements

As with most nonfiction books about political topics, I finished Solidarity with more questions than answers about how to integrate its concepts into my day-to-day life.

Abbie Jones March 12, 2024 2 Comments
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TV Feature

Truman Capote’s Swans Ranked by How Much I Want To Be Insulted by Them

These Swans can terrorize me any day.

Sa'iyda Shabazz March 12, 2024 1 Comment
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