“If we think too hard, we’ll never do it,” Kellie said. She was right. A cost-benefit analysis would yield no practical reason to grow our family. The only reason to make a new baby was that we felt like it, and we could.
The journey to finding and deciding on my real name, Melinda Valdivia Rude, took about four years.
Get to know Loretta Lynch, the first black woman to ever hold the office of Attorney General.
“These poems are middle fingers to the law, to the man, to history, to the future, to the people who continue to fight us for our lives.”
Well, goodbye, Derek! Say hello to Tara and Maya and Toshiko and Leslie and Bullet and Cristina and Silvia and Shana and Kenya and Tara and Naomi and other Naomi and Cat for us!
How to ask for things in bed, relationships and money, developing a kinky identity, why people make so many noise complaints about loud sex and more.
Laverne Cox wins an Emmy, Loretta Lynch makes history, Conchita Wurst debuts a new video and more good news!
If you’re thinking about making a career shift or adding new skill sets to your resume, then here are some factors to consider during your search for a boot camp and upcoming application prep.
“For all intents and purposes, I’m a woman.”
“You have to at least pretend to hate the new trilogy.”
Pumpkin came out and then outed her mom, in an interview that will air tonight.
41 flavors of scissoring
Girl coders from around the world accepted a challenge in February to design websites or apps that increase girls’ access to safe spaces online and in their physical communities. Here’s what they came up with.
The Ultimate Lesbian Sex Survey knows what you’ve got on underneath those jeans, and how that relates to your gender identity and presentation.
This rewilding farm in Sussex, Maria Bello on labels, why we need to stop abusing “the tone argument,” a list of good podcasts you will enjoy, Mara Wilson helps you breathe, and other stories you’ll be like, “oh I’m glad Laneia shared this” about.
What do you need? A reminder that you’re loved? A push to get outside a take a walk? Some courage? Some hope? Get in here and tell me.
One generous queer donated a campership to send one lucky Mexican / Mexican-American to A-Camp!
“I felt I was gradually becoming like those newly married Indian women with henna on their hands at JFK or Heathrow… Of course, I didn’t look anything like them and my wedding bowtie was probably the only equivalent to their bridal henna, but I couldn’t help noticing parallels.”
No matter what kind of take you were interested in on that issue — you know the one — you’ll find something that works for you here.
“Why do we only collect coming out stories, it-gets-better stories, these stories that are set in the past, that tell of a particular set of experiences that not everyone can relate to? Stories that treat the future as if it doesn’t come with a problems of its own.”