Health

Working On It, Week 5: Meditation and Hydration

This week I’m talking about working out at my apartment, finding the best germ-free water bottle, and a cool meditation app.

Geekery

Drawn to Comics: Team Girl Comic Issue #11 Brings Even More Great Comics By Women

Do you want a comic anthology with comics from fifteen female creators? Of course you do!

Politics + Activism

Daily Fix: Officer Pepper Sprayed Black Lives Matter Activists After Their National Conference and More News Stories

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.

Love + Sex

We See You: An Open Thread for Bisexual Women Dating Men

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.

TV Show Recaps

Orange Is the New Black Episode 309 Recap: Rumspringa Natural Good-Time Family-Band Solution

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.

Queer Fashion

30 Things You Should Definitely Keep Wearing After 30

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.

TV Show Recaps

Boob(s On Your) Tube: Welcome To The Queerest Week In TV History

I Am Cait, I Am Jazz, Hannibal, Complications, The Fosters, Chasing Life, Defiance, Rookie Blue, Scream, Clipped, Steven Universe and more!

Home

Helping You Help Yourself #9

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!

Queer Pregnancy

Panic and Parenthood: Having A Baby, Being Torn Apart, and Putting Myself Back Together

“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.”

Gender

Spread This Far and Wide: It’s Almost Time for the U.S. Trans Survey

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!

Politics + Activism

You Should Go or Help Other Humans Go to #QI2: the Queering Immigration Conference

“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.”

Food Lists

40 Recipes For Getting Fruit Into Your Face

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.

NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Sneaking Into The Woods

Your first anal sex, your first kinky sex, why embarrassment has no place in the bedroom and more.

Society + Culture

Sunday Funday Will Take You All Around the World to Fight for Gay Rights, Fall in Sweet Queer Love

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.

Geekery

Summer Lovin’: Wonderful Tech Things I’ve Tried This Summer

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?