Things I Read That I Love #152: To Make Thunder Where There Was No Lightning
Topics include “redneck reality TV,” cheerleading, Guantánamo, Reality Bites, rehab, Modern farmer, men and feminism and so much more!
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: So It’s Totally The Holigay Season Now, Right
Are you feeling the Holigay spirit? Do you hate me for even bringing up that the holiday season is upon us? Either way, GET IN HERE and tell me all about it.
You Need Help: Attraction to Women and Feeling Like A “Bad Muslim”
“Remember that everyone around you, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, is grappling with a lot of the same things that you are right now: about what they want “family” to look like and mean to them, about sex and sexuality and learning to live in their bodies, about how to hold onto faith when it can feel like there’s not much going for it.”
It Looks Like Marriage Equality is Finally Headed to the Supreme Court
A federal appeals court ruled today that the bans on same-sex marriage in four states are constitutional. Today’s decision means SCOTUS will have to make a decision on marriage equality.
Orange is the New Black Episode 212 Recap: It’s the End of the World as We Know It and I (Don’t Really) Feel Fine
Lots of super serious things happen in this episode where the metaphor of and literal Hurricane Wanda really picks up speed but all I can do is make fun of Portland and be miserable.
We’re Still Fighting for Reproductive Rights: Keep A Careful Eye On These States
The battle over abortion rights may have ceded its national stage, but it has not stopped raging on.
Brittani’s Video Party: Cara Delevingne and Grumpy Cat Listen to Serial
Cara Delevingne is funny, a video about gender roles, the Grumpy Cat movie trailer, and a Serial parody party to soothing sounds.
Sober in the City: Wake and Shake with Morning Gloryville’s Sober Raves
The party starts at 6:30 am and ends at 10:30 am.
Kacey Musgraves’ Queer Country Anthem “Follow Your Arrow” Wins Song of the Year at the CMAs!
Our favorite queer-friendly country singer is back at it!
Faking It Episode 207 Recap: Lesbians Move Fast
This week on “Faking It,” Amy and Reagan went on a date but then everybody else also came to the date. It was awkward.
Why The Anti-Street Harassment Movement Needs to Involve More Women of Color
While men of all colors perpetrate street harassment, addressing it in communities of color calls for specific intra-community solutions rather than broad condemnations of male privilege.
Media Refuses To Grant Trans Women Dignity — Even Murder Victims
Often, trans people are treated as little more than curiosities. Even when they lose their lives to hate crimes and other violence, they are rarely treated as more than clickbait.
Lots Of Straight Girls Wanna Have Lesbian Sex, Yet Another Study Shows
Nearly 40% of women surveyed had fantasized about getting it on with another woman. Also have you noticed that the sky is especially blue today?
You Need Help: Do I Call Myself Bisexual?
“I’m attracted to more than one gender, but am not sure what label to use. “Queer” resonates with me, but am I contributing to bisexual erasure if I don’t ID as bisexual?”
9 Not-Terrible Things That Happened in Last Night’s Election
We actually won a handful of really important things.
Apocalypse Now? Democrats Get Wrecked in the 2014 Midterm Elections
When will Hillary Clinton step in and save us from this doom?
Fool’s Journey: I Can’t Find The Words
“My writing lets me vent everything I have pent up and my poems allow people to comprehend what I’m thinking. But when words are meant to come from my mouth, they’re all zig zagging in my head, I tend to over-think on what to say.”
Gotham Episode 107 Recap: Baby, Now We’ve Got Bad Blood
Jim Gordon and Renee Montoya are your new BrOTP. Welcome to the future.
Top Ten Products For Human Bloodhounds Who Need Everything To Smell Good
If you have an unusually sensitive sense of smell, as I do, perhaps you also have an intimate relationship with febreeze to-go and maintain a scented artillery at all times.
VIDEO: Joan Jett, Carrie Brownstein, Other Rockin’ Badass Chicks Want You to Vote
Don’t get a bad reputation this Election Day. VOTE, DAMN IT.