You Need Help: Always Her Bridesmaid and Never Her Bride
She’s engaged TO him, but engaged WITH you — and you’re not sure how much more of this you can take.
“The Body Electric” Is Beautiful, Necessary, By Your New Fave Queer Band Hurray For The Riff Raff
Alynda Lee Segarra’s voice is like dark chocolate with sea salt. Her politics make my heart beat faster than a KitchenAid stand mixer. Her lyrics are pointed as star anise, and powerful as ghost pepper. I could go on, but I’m getting hungry. Just watch.
Burials in the Mist of Dawn
“But unlike the missing 43 from Ayotzinapa, I was going home. And it’s what I store in my memory each time I read an article or update about the disappeared. I am home. They are not.”
This Shit Rules: Honey and Almonds and Coconut Oil
Coconut oil, a ton of Burt’s Bees, and the best hair oil (for my head) on this earth.
Ari Fitz is the Most “Bombtastic” Queer of Them All This Sunday Funday
The first batch of good news out of 2015 includes Ari Fitz on ElixHER’s cover, a cricket engaygement, badass queers in Uganda, Amber Rose’s approval, marriage equality spreading around the world in under 80 days, and kittens playing with tiny trucks.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Still Has You On Her Tongue
Last year in sex toy technology, unserious speculation about your cat ruining your sex life, erotica and more.
The Comment Awards Are Late But Not Forgotten
Rounding out the year in queer.
10 Apps To Help You Read, Travel and Write More in 2015
Here are a few goals I’m guessing some of us might have and a few apps, websites and gadgets to help us get there.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Bar Humbug, Part II
“This is Lesbos.”
25 Pictures of Lesbian Kink According To Stock Photography
Fuzzy handcuffs, matching outfits, unsafe play and more.
Homosteading: Preserve Lemons, Impress the Hell Out of Everyone
Got boatloads of lemons? Turn them into boatloads of respect.
He Said/We Said: Stylin’ in Cincy
For our 21st edition, we’ve invited some dashing and stylish queers of Cincinnati to show us their swag.
Things I Read That I Love #160: Smarter Than She Wants You To Know
Topics include Jay from the Adnan Syed case, Radio Shack, The Doodler Murders, Sex after pregnancy, “Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?” and Dorothy Allison on “A Question of Class.”
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Welcome to 2015! Let’s Be Bad.
Tell me your resolutions, yes, but what I want, what I really really want, is to know your baaaaaaaad habits.
Read a F*cking Book: Liz Prince’s “Tomboy”
Liz Prince’s new graphic memoir Tomboy is a smart and outright cute exploration of girlhood by a girl who didn’t ‘fit’ but survived to tell the tale.
Five Queers Of Color On What Connects Us To Our Complicated Or Mixed-Race Identities
Accepting ambiguity feels like being welcomed home.
12 Places To Read Really Good Longform Writing Online
I’ve written 160 weekly roundups of the best longform on the web which means I’ve got a pretty solid grip on this topic.
Brittani’s Video Party: Ten Viral Videos from 2014
Here are a bunch of viral videos that never made it into Video Party this year. There are adorable children, soccer playing lions, and more!
Rebel Girls: Our “False Rape” Hysteria is Bullsh*t
I come bearing every ounce of truth I could muster about “false rape accusations” and the pitiful rape culture the myth of them exemplifies.
25 Women Who Shook Things Up in 2014
From mounting revolutions to redefining realness, these are 25 women who made waves in the world this year.