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Wild Child West: Our Top 10 Road Trip Snacks

We’ve finally picked out our road trip snack shopping list, and it’s a thing of beauty.

Carmen September 7, 2015 38 Comments
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Helping You Help Yourself #12

How to make tiny boxes! Iron your shirts! Get a better password! Figure out how your oven works! There’s a baby tapir in here somewhere!

Rachel September 7, 2015 25 Comments
Food Lists

28 Ways Cooking With Beer Is Magic

Always wondered about cooking with beer? YOUR TIME HAS COME.

Ryan Yates September 7, 2015 11 Comments
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Ari Fitz Just Wore Your Perfect First Day Of School Outfit; Here’s How to Get It

It’s 8 AM on the first day back to class and you’re hit with a conundrum: what to wear. Summertime dressing is easy; tanks with shorts, snapback and sundresses, it’s all laid back. But the days are a little cooler now, and so are you. So how does one get ready in the five minutes before the snooze?

Lydia O September 7, 2015 7 Comments
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The A+ Bee Issue 26: Book-It!

Get ready to cuddle a book, learn what Harry Potter artifact you are, write a haiku about your favorite book and be puzzled. This issue has it all!

Chelsey September 6, 2015 16 Comments
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Sunday Funday Loves Her Trans Daughter and Also Baby Goats

The best mom to a trans daughter ever, sweet justice in Kentucky, baby goats, a landmark court ruling for a Mexican trans woman, and more!

Carmen September 6, 2015 9 Comments
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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Will Love You Always Forever

How to initiate sex, dry humping, an argument in defence of vanilla sex and more.

Ryan Yates September 6, 2015 25 Comments
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Pros and Cons of the Companion App, Which Promises You’ll “Never Walk Home Alone”

All about the Companion app, which allows people walking home alone to request a digital buddy (or Companion!) to track their location. Get in here and tell me what you think!

A.E. Osworth September 5, 2015 14 Comments
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Saturday Morning Cartoons: Baopu #12

In which we contemplate choosing a box.

Yao Xiao September 5, 2015 9 Comments
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The Comment Awards Want To Share A Roomba With You

Tiny lesbians, squirrel monkeys and religious leaders blessing lesbians in this week’s comment awards.

carrie September 4, 2015 4 Comments
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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: What Was The First Gay Book You Read?

Get in here! We’re talking about the first LGBTQ books we ever read and how they made us feel.

Yvonne September 4, 2015 209 Comments
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GLAAD’s 2015 Network Responsibility Index Is Its Last, ‘Cause Counting The Gays Isn’t The Point Anymore

“I truly believe in story, I think the stories we see and the ones we choose to engage with are one of life’s most vital elements, it’s right up there with food and shelter. This has always been true.”

Riese September 4, 2015 49 Comments
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“Addicted to Fresno” Is Your Next Favorite Movie from Jamie Babbit and Natasha Lyonne

“A murder, Fred Armisen, a bar mitzvah and Molly Shannon.”

Hannah Hodson September 4, 2015 9 Comments
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Love & Canada: Whatever Happens, This Wedding Is Happening

“This week has involved a lot of needing to let go of all the things I can’t have total control over and I’m not good at that and I don’t like it but also maybe that’s okay.”

Ryan Yates September 4, 2015 25 Comments
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Lez Liberty Lit #79: Still Waiting For My Owl

New Eileen Myles, students who don’t want to read Fun Home, Hogwarts updates, asexual characters in YA, a review of the IKEA catalog and more.

Ryan Yates September 3, 2015 9 Comments
Health

The Grossest Tales Ever Told By Women On The Internet

You may have heard that somebody’s gynecologist found a cat hairball in her vagina. Why stop there? There are so many other wonderful tales to tell each other!

The Editors September 3, 2015 51 Comments
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Rosie O’Donnell Is Probably Not Dating Tatum O’Neal, But What Do We Know?

Is “confidante” the new “gal pal”?

Stef September 3, 2015 13 Comments
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Daily Fix: Black Lives Matter Calls on Hillary to Stand with Black Trans Women and More News

The Black Lives Matter movement also repudiated the Democratic National Committee’s endorsement, a Maryland judge refuses to drop charges against the six officers involved in the death of Freddie Gray, a professor received a grant to study health in bisexual women and more news stories.

Rachel September 3, 2015 8 Comments
Food and Drink

Taco Tuesday: The Incomplete History of Tacos

Where did the taco come from? From the Aztecs to silver mines in Mexico to the Taco Bell founder, these are some big moments in taco history.

Yvonne September 3, 2015 35 Comments
Food and Drink

Liquor In The Pears: The Pear Afternoon for the In-Between Month of September

In which we make a refreshing pear, vanilla and vodka concoction that signals Autumn while acknowledging the heat of September.

A.E. Osworth September 3, 2015 10 Comments
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