It’s the eve of a new year, and the best way to get a headstart on a rad 2015 is dressin’ to the nines to say goodbye to 2014. Whether you are feelin’ dapper as hell or on a shimmering ethereal tip, we’ve rounded up some awesome threads to look #flawless in.
Hey! We’re doing that thing we do and you should get a piece!
We asked y’all to use the hashtag #HappyHoligays on social media this season, and boy, did you ever!
What do you do when the world gives you a mandatory day off, when nothing is open except Chinese restaurants and movie theatres?
Now pass the tofurkey and shut the fuck up, uncle Ned!
Marginalia, feminist shelfies, expanding the queer canon, 2014 in queer diversity in YA and more.
If you thought all we could do was sit in our chairs and type words on a screen, prepare to have your mind blown!
It’s finally here! Your very own A+ podcast! Sit back and enjoy.
This is a safe and special place for you to use as refuge from your family, a recipe depository from your holigay feasts, and also a friend-making machine.
The song Blue Christmas is not on this playlist, but it’s still perfect for melancholy holigay moments.
After weeks of discussion on the subject, the agency has finally announced it will replace the current lifetime ban with a one-year restriction period for men who sleep with men.
There were more queer female characters of color on TV in 2014 than the total number of queer female characters on TV, period, five years ago.
I’m damn furious that six years ago, Nickelodeon was allowed to show a 12-year-old boy kissing a 14-year-old girl and saying “I love you,” but now, they refuse to show a 21-year-old woman do either of those things with her 22-year-old female partner.
As for keeping your hands warm, the best way to go is a faux fur muff. I really don’t understand why people don’t still wear muffs all the time. They’re great! They double as a great way to keep your hands nice and cozy and an excuse to make lesbian sex jokes.
If you were on the fence about buying it, the credits page calls the issue “a flippin’ sweet Susan B. Anth-ology.”
“As a white woman, you may not understand this but the simple act of getting up and being in the public eye and proclaiming your transness unapologetically is an act of revolution for every trans person of color, and in that right, they are doing the work.”
This week in The A+ Insider, we re-cast Peter Pan starring Alex Vega, Laneia thinks you need a walk, we remember the year that was, and everybody stocks up on Endure By Rachel Kincaid.
Maybe girl-on-girl action is like the antenna that boosts magical Wi-Fi. (That was an alcohol-inspired thought.)
If it requires a stove, oven or toaster, you won’t find it here.
“At some point, probably around the time I became a surly teenager and wanted something of my very own to craft and control and create, I decided to start making gingerbread too. At first this was just something I did alone, but gradually my younger brother began helping me, then my older brother, and it kind of became a tradition by accident.”