The bombing happened shortly before 11 a.m. with three employees in the building, back for their first day of regular work following the holidays. The building that houses the NAACP office is also home to an income tax center and Mr. G’s Hair Design Studio, a salon with predominantly Black customers.
This issue includes reader-submitted Ellen Page poetry, important Netflix announcements, the continuing saga of Choose Your Own Gaydventure and SO MUCH MORE! Get in here!
The Price of Salt is the first lesbian pulp to be made into a movie, and one with a multi-million dollar budget.
In one way, it is incredible that something like this didn’t exist before. In another way, it is all too regrettable that something like this is so dearly needed.
Money makes the world go ’round and also you need it to pay for things because capitalism. So let’s talk about relationship finances after moving in together.
All I want this year is more representation, better representation, the return of some of my faves and about nine other things.
In addition to fighting for reforms within the prison system, we can keep people out of prison in the first place.
No new apps, intense #lifehacks or complicated productivity systems here — just solid habits to get into for an ass-kicking 2015.
Come join the Speakeasy Book Club as we quest for literary enlightenment and embiggen our collective minds.
“I also had a really weird relationship with sex until very recently because, I don’t know. A lot of shame is placed on it. Also especially being a girl who likes girls in the South, no one tells you anything.”
AAAAAAAAAAAH OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD
I pinkie-swear you won’t find a single turducken on this list.
Because sometimes the revolution is in your pants.
I’ve already watched this video about 50 times.
Oh, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous womankind is! O brave new world, that has such characters in it!
She’s engaged TO him, but engaged WITH you — and you’re not sure how much more of this you can take.
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.
“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.”
Coconut oil, a ton of Burt’s Bees, and the best hair oil (for my head) on this earth.
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.