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.
Last year in sex toy technology, unserious speculation about your cat ruining your sex life, erotica and more.
Rounding out the year in queer.
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.
“This is Lesbos.”
Fuzzy handcuffs, matching outfits, unsafe play and more.
Got boatloads of lemons? Turn them into boatloads of respect.
For our 21st edition, we’ve invited some dashing and stylish queers of Cincinnati to show us their swag.
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.”
Tell me your resolutions, yes, but what I want, what I really really want, is to know your baaaaaaaad habits.
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.
Accepting ambiguity feels like being welcomed home.
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.
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!
I come bearing every ounce of truth I could muster about “false rape accusations” and the pitiful rape culture the myth of them exemplifies.
From mounting revolutions to redefining realness, these are 25 women who made waves in the world this year.
What do you want your 2015 to look like? We need to know right now.