KC Haggard is the 11th trans woman to be murdered this year, a San Francisco high school will be the first to offer a LGBT history class, a 37-year-old Cleveland woman was found dead in a jail cell and more news.
So many women feel like there isn’t a space to talk about their experiences in this area. So! That brings us here; we’ve tried to make the space we want to see in the world in the form of this open thread.
Leanne’s Amish roots come to light as she hammers out the tenants of Normaism, a rabbi arrives to test Jewish Black Cindy and the others about their newfound Jewish faith, and Suzanne’s legion of admirers grows.
But you know what is great about being a queer gal or boi? Not giving a hoot about social norms around what “respectable ladies” are supposed to look like.
I Am Cait, I Am Jazz, Hannibal, Complications, The Fosters, Chasing Life, Defiance, Rookie Blue, Scream, Clipped, Steven Universe and more!
Which wild plants to eat, how to supercharge your iPhone in just a few minutes, ridding your apartment of fruit flies, remember everything, and more!
“In one of my college psych courses we had to try to use conditioning to get rid of bad habits. My classmates tried to stop biting their nails. I tried to stop panicking during sex.”
If you’re trans and would like to help inform the next decade of trans advocacy, sign up and pledge to fill out this survey!
“A lot of folks have their own opinions and viewpoints of what immigration looks like. I think if they came to this event they’d be able to see what trans and queer migration really looks like.”
If you, too, dream of a world where fruit is less of a decorative item in a basket and more of the main event, get ready to put some of these recipes into your mouth immediately.
Your first anal sex, your first kinky sex, why embarrassment has no place in the bedroom and more.
Obama’s gonna go hard for gay rights in Kenya, two queer women took a honeymoon around the world and made a video about it for you, Italy’s Supreme Court just made a decision that’s huge for trans rights, Riley Curry is doing the nae nae in here. Just saying.
While there are many important topics that are hard hitting and deserve some serious talk, we also deserve happy, fun things too. So from an assortment of categories that have randomly occurred to me, here are my Summer Tech Favorites. What are yours?
On the little things that have changed.
A homosexy lesbionic experience that takes us right back to t.A.T.u., and this time with no weird schoolgirl outfits.
Sun powered sex toys, racoon confusion and Al Borland as a lesbian icon.
I’m almost 25 and everything is so awful but wonderful at the same time! GET IN HERE AND COMFORT ME DEEPLY. Also, I love you, nice hair.
Topics include porn stars, the murder of an unarmed homeless black man, The Runaways, Ta-Nehisi Coates, brand-led fake holidays and DigiTour.
Recent books featuring queer people of color, travelling and reading, reading and your brain, your favorite curse word and more. Plus coverage of the Harper Lee coverage.
We’re taking back grilling from the straight white dudes of this world and we’re doing it the only way we know how: together.