Rhymes With Witches: Poor Little Rich Girl Mary Crawley
The bitchy nightmare heiress of Downtown Abbey wears pearls.
Orange Is The New Black 207: Comic Sans
“Journalist dude’s mouth says ‘no problem, let me know if you change your mind’ but his face says ‘I AM VRY DISAPPOINTED IN U PIPER U ARE ACTING LIKE SEASON 1 PIPER RN’.” Caputo makes a cameo with a tiny plant.
Things I Read That I Love #140: A Girl In Black Eyeliner and High-Top Sneakers
Topics include women in country music, pedophilia, the Estonia ferry sinking, Magnolia, retail scheduling, confessional writing, Ferguson and more.
Barneys New York Pays $525,000 in an Attempt To Be Less Racist
Barneys New York has been fined $525,000 by New York State Attorney General’s office in response to several incidences in which brown and black customers of Barneys were pursued, cuffed and detained under grounds of suspicion of credit card fraud and/or shoplifting.
3 Tips from the Slapass Convent For Making Your Brunch Totally Decadent
A veteran brunchateur gets to the heart’s essence of brunch: decadence.
Oh Hey, Kissing Girls and Lesbian Drama On “Masters Of Sex”
Don’t you hate it when your ex girlfriend Sarah Silverman shows up and destroys your sham marriage with a single palm reading?
Queer Girl Brunch Guide: So Many Cities, So Many Brunches, So Little Time
Oh hey were you wondering where to get brunch? Maybe like the weekend of the 23rd and 24th?
Brittani’s Video Party: Back for More
The internet will never run out of queer webseries and Cameron Esposito has an important message about one of the biggest parts of lesbianism.
Calls for ICE to #FreeMarichuy After Failing to Respond to Report of Sexual Assault
“[ICE] should not be detaining transgender women, period.”
The Facts on Ferguson: What’s Happened and How You Can Help
Everything we know about last night’s events, the legal realities, and what you can do right now to help.
The QPOC Speakeasy Speaking Out With Love To Mike Brown
“It is a crystal clear, paint-by-the-numbers picture of chronic police hostility toward African-Americans. This is anti-blackness in America. Make no mistake.”
Sober in the City: How to Brunch Like a Sober Boss
It also turns out that I’m a foodie and love brunching sober because I get to focus and spend more money on the actual food! (Pizza and Oreos are NOT theeeeee best combination of food I’ve eeeeeeever eaten. That was the vodka talking.)
Dear Queer Diary: Meet Abbie
Abbie has a collection of uni-ball roller pens and the coolest bangs south of the Mason-Dixon Line.
Michfest Could Change Its Trans Female Exclusionary Intention Only If It Tried, Only If It Wanted To
LGBTQ rights groups are joining activists, allies and former performers in opposing Michfest’s trans-female-exclusionary intention, and if Michfest wants to attract new fans, it needs to listen up.
National Poetry Slam 2014 Queerer Than All The Other Slams Forever
“This not just your average poetry reading with people standing stoically reading prose or page poetry. This is a rock show of poetry. This is aggression, fierceness, tenderness, passion, tears and jubilance.”
When We Talk Reproductive Justice, We Need to Talk About Surrogate Parents
Surrogacy agencies within and without the United States are using legal loopholes to profit from poor women and women of color’s bodies.
You Need Brunch Help: So You’re The Only Vegan At Brunch
Pour some hot sauce on a napkin.
Fool’s Journey: Four Elements, Four Suits
One way to develop your understanding of the tarot is to look at how the four elements — earth, air, fire and water — play out in the cards.
Nothing Is Off Limits: How Queer Brunch Raised This Queer Feminist Fagette
“We partied during the week and met up between classes, but brunch was where we let our queer identities free in a way that was more natural and less defensive compared to who we were in public.”
18 Things About Gender, Poverty, Rape Culture, Racism and Modern Life Only Gavin McInnes Understands
No seriously, pretty much Gavin McInnes is the only one who can truly understand why Terry Richardson is misunderstood, rape culture is NBD, and transphobia saves trans people from themselves.