5 Ways To Try Out Kinky Headspace for Beginners, Experts, and Everyone In Between
How to play with that kinky infinite-floaty space that seems boundless and fills our heads with the same thing as chocolate and wine.
GIVEAWAY: Dattch Wants To Woo You For Pride With An NYC Hotel Room and VIP Party Tickets!
Dattch is offering our readers the chance to win a pretty sweet setup for the most intense day of NYC Pride. They’re offering VIP tickets to one of the biggest Pride parties in the USA, plus a gorgeous hotel room to crash in afterwards.
Lez Liberty Lit #49: Spend More Than 19 Minutes Reading
Why queer characters and themes in YA hasn’t translated to mainstream fiction, literature as propaganda, the Beyoncé of poetry, a discussion of systems of oppression and more.
Pretty Little Liars Recap 503: Coincidences Happen
“i swear to god i thought hanna was about to come out in this episode” – Forever Intern Grace
Wilder Hungers: Balsamic Strawberry, Rhubarb, and Chia Pudding
My recipe today is for a balsamic strawberry, rhubarb, and chia pudding! It’s adapted from this recipe from The Year in Food and it literally tastes like summer. It also tastes like you are eating big spoonfuls of jam, so how can that be bad?
New York State Sued Because Trans-Exclusionary Medicaid Regulation Has Got To Go
“This is a regulation that the New York State Department of Health has the power to change. It’s discriminatory and has direct consequences for our community members.”
The People’s History: The Birth of the New Feminist Army in Texas
“An entire year has passed since the shouts heard around the world reverberated throughout the Texas Capitol and forced the state legislature to come to a screeching halt. Rise Up/Levanta Texas formed in late June 2013 as a grassroots response to a growing awareness that our bodies, stories, and voices were being made invisible within the larger narrative surrounding reproductive rights and HB 2.”
Dear Queer Diary: Notes from The Road
By which I mean I am tapping this into an iPhone note on a bus jostling through the English countryside.
Supreme Court Rules “Free Speech” More Important Than Safe Access to Abortions, Healthcare
The Supreme Court has cast out a Massachusetts law that created a 35-foot protest-free zone around abortion clinics, citing freedom of speech rights for the protesters.
Orphan Black Episode 210 Recap : “By Means Which Have Never Yet Been Tried”
CLONE DANCE PARTY! CLONE DANCE PARTY! CLONE DANCE PARTY!
Rebel Girls: The Writing That Made A Movement (Or A Bunch of Feminism’s Primary Sources)
Women’s studies, as a whole, is a discipline grounded in words. These pieces are some of the words that ground the entire thing.
Orange is the New Black 203: Don’t Trust A Bitch With Funfetti
The Prodigal Daughter of White Trojan Horsery has returned to Litchfield, minus her bespectacled toxic popsicle and plus a newer harder attitude. What adventures await our little vanilla wafer? Time can only tell, inmating ritualists.
Queer Pilgrimages Past & Present: Van Lust and Lesbian America
Where would you go on your queer pilgrimage?
25 Things to Do While You Wait for “Orange is the New Black” Season Three
“20. Learn to roll your own cigarettes. Then rip them up and pour bleach all over them. Smoking is bad for you.”
Playlist: Speakeasy Bangers, A QPOC Block Party
Who are the QPOC or POC artists that we bob and weave to on an everyday basis? In the spirit of our A-Camp QPOC group The Speakeasy, here is a Block Party playlist for everyone to enjoy.
We Won A Thing! Indiana Judge Throws Out State’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban
This morning, a federal judge in Indiana determined that the state’s same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional, and couples in the state have already begun marrying.
Also.Also.Also. A Lesbian Princess Confirmed Gay Federal Judges and Other Stories We Missed This Week
Exciting things are happening for LGBT people in the US, activists are critical of Pride, and there are tons of awesome events you should go to!
“The Switch” Is More Than Just A “Transgender Comedy”
“But just when you think you know where it’s going, the story turns. What emerges is a series feels less like a ‘transgender comedy’ and more like a distinctive TV show that just has a bunch of trans casting. And while aspects of transition are covered, they occupy a more background role. For instance, Sam and Sü discussing living plans over black market electrolysis, or a shot of mail-order hormones.”
Captain’s Log: Ladies With Feelings Forever
You’d think that since it’s summertime, I’d be cruising around with the top down, sipping on lemonade, wearing super cool neon shades and blasting high-energy tracks about lipgloss or whatever. Instead, I’m finding myself drawn to mopey women with guitars, plodding dance beats and navel-gazing, introspective lyrics.
dapperQ’s 100 Most Stylish Features Your Favorite Heartthrobs: Hannah Hart, Ari Fitz and More!
dapperQ just came out with their second list of 100 most stylish individuals, and boy, does it deliver on the dapper!