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Get Baked: Margarita Butterfruit Cookies
In some parts of the world, avocados are called butterfruit. Here’s how to make cookies with them.
LGBT Youth Also Need To Hear “I Believe You, It’s Not Your Fault”
“The all-too-real worries and fear of coming forward as a queer victim of abuse and sexual assault run the gamut. Beyond the base erroneous idea that assault can’t happen, or doesn’t happen, between queer folk, especially women, or if it does it isn’t as “bad,” there’s the fear of how coming forward will be received in regards to your orientation or gender, regardless who assaulted you.”
Negotiators Lie Through Their Teeth To Women, Study Shows
People view women as easy targets, so negotiators opportunistically lie through their teeth. Oh, the joys of being a woman.
Read a F*cking Book: Late Summer Reading For Queers and Feminists
With new books by Roxane Gay, Hannah Hart, Sarah Waters, Radclyffe and more, there are lots of things to read and talk about.
Movie Review: In “Breastmilk,” Women’s Bodies Are Still Not Their Own
So much of our cultural rhetoric around breastfeeding is tied to a sense of what women should be doing rather than what they would like to or are even able to do. Breastfeeding isn’t purely a medical issue, but neither is it a wholly moral one. And all the parameters that go into a woman’s decision to breastfeed pale next to the fear that she is somehow failing her child.
11 Female Superheroes I Wish Marvel Would Make Movies About
Is it really too much to ask for one little movie centered around a female superhero? Or eleven movies centered around them?
Katy Perry Continues Scaling New Heights of Cultural Appropriation
Katy Perry has once again offended a whole mess of people, to the surprise of absolutely nobody.
Only The Truest Thing You’ll Read All Day: Lukewarm Girl-On-Girl Action
“Suddenly, her interlaced hand is being shaken up and down and all around, causing her snap-button Western shirt not to slide off her shoulder at all because it’s all buttoned up.”
Top 10 Things I Watched While I Didn’t Have a Computer
There is no discernible theme.
Summer Survival: Agua Frescas For Every Taste
Beat the heat with the fruitiest, coolest, and most refreshing thing to hit the summer since you, darlin’.
Sunday Funday’s Got A Lot of Queer Victories To Celebrate, Goats and All
I’m literally overwhelmed with feelings of joy and clarity, and to share them with you I’ve rounded up this batch of awesome queer news with happy endings. Sound good? Good.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Will Soak The Sheets
Porn soundtracks, sex work and labor practices, making your own strap-on harness, OkCupid’s social experiments and more.
In Which Anna Paquin Had To Explain Bisexuality To Insufferable Larry King
I would imagine that trying to explain one’s sexual fluidity to an 80-year-old white dude who’s been married eight times to seven women would be a lot like trying to explain one’s sexual fluidity to their cranky old uncle.
Ask A Gay Nerd: “I Don’t Have Room On My Computer”
1. i have no room on my macbook air
2. my 160gb portable hard drive from 2006 is predictably also full
3. i can’t move anything to dropbox from my mac bc my mac is full
Saturday Morning Cartoons: #BeachDay
“GoPro that shit.”
The Comment Awards Just Want To Celebrate
Music, foodie foreplay and getting bossy.
Pretty Little Liars 506, 507 and 508 Mega Recap Party Extravaganza
Grab some popcorn and get comfortable, kids, because it’s time to catch up on our favorite teen drama about tiny liars who are pretty.
IFP’s “Fresh Faces” Highlights So Many Rad Female Indie Filmmakers
Despite a continued male dominance of the media industry, a number of talented women are working hard to make their mark in the arena of indie film.
Interview With My Ex-Girlfriend: Alex
“Do you know what we were arguing over? Free food at the event we had just come from and the fact that you didn’t eat it and I did.”