OPEN THREAD: Back to School!
35% of you are going back to college or starting a new college right this very minute! How’s that working out for you? Have you made out with a cute girl? Cried in your dorm? All feelings welcome! We’ll be here all week!
Your College Tuition Is Too Damn High
At this rate, banks and the government will own everyone’s first born children.
Let Them Eat Gulab Jamun With My City Cuisine
Laura’s Team Pick: My City Cuisine helps you figure out what you should and should not put in your mouth.
Elmhurst College Hopes To Be Enriched By Gay Students, Give Them Money
Elmhurst College in Illinois has become the first school to ask (optionally) about your sexual orientation on their admissions application. How does that make you feel?
How To Be Around People When You’re In A Crappy Mood
“You can MacGyver your way through having to hang out with dumb jerks you hate, crabbypants.”
The Lesbian Insider’s Guide to 40 LGBT-Friendly College Campuses
Queer girls from 40 different schools give you the uncensored scoop on what it feels like for a gay lady on their campus — from hookup culture to dyke parties to activism and academics.
You Need Help: Binding Breasts and Stretching Marks
Advice on binding and making peace with your stretch marks.
I’m Going to Manchester Gay Pride!
In which I’m going to the UK for Manchester Pride, I bet it’s gonna be just like “Queer as Folk.”
Listling With Minimal Commentary: Selections From Anti-Lesbian Bridal Salon’s 868 Yelp Reviews
“Tried to find the place on a map, but apparently they’re stuck somewhere in 1956.”
You Need Help: Lesbian Back-To-School Edition
So you’re going to your first semester at college! Do you have to come out to your roommate?
How Not to Flirt with Your Boss
Brittani’s Team Pick: I want you to know how to flirt with your boss and get fired at the same time.
60 Days in China: Where Everywhere Else Seemed Upside Down
“China is beautiful because it’s not like anything you’ve ever known before. There is nothing that reminds you of home, and when you get home, everything will remind you of China.”
Hangover and Out: Queer Girls’ Advice On The Day After Drinking
“Is there a way out? Yes, you could just not drink the wine, but I mean besides that.”
Lily’s College Lesbianage #14: Libraries, Gay Marriage and Therapy
Unaccomplished Goal For Summer #4: Write a screenplay about a 20 year-old girl who realizes that her life long dream of becoming a child/teen star will never be realized. Call it “That’s Not So Raven”.
Fun Things to Do With Your Period (Besides Cry)
Lily’s Team Pick: “After I read the piece I laughed and then I cried and then I did the weird laugh/cry combo where you’re not quite sure which one you are doing because you have SO MANY FEELINGS.”
Surprise, Women With Trauma History More Likely To Face Substance Abuse, Mental Illness
Australian researchers found that gender-based violence puts women at a much greater risk of mental health problems. Hopefully the new guidelines around healthcare for women will help with that.
Institute of Medicine Cares About Women’s Health And Making It Affordable
If there’s anything more annoying than passing out at the blood test facility and waking up without a slice of pizza in the vicinity, it’s trying to pay for the blood test in the first place. But things are finally changing.
How (Not) to Quit Smoking: What Will Occupy Your Lesbian Hands?
Lesbians and bisexual women are 2-3 times more likely to smoke cigarettes regularly than straight people, which might be one of the 46 reasons I’m finding it hard to quit.
Whole Foods is a “Faux Hippy Wal-Mart”
Laura’s Team Pick: Dear *****, You win a lot of awards in my book. Best at being a chauvinist. Least likely to realize he’s about to walk into someone.
Hey Queer College Girls, We Need You and Your Input
We need your testimony for a very important post we are working on about queer life at college.