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First Person

Lessons Learned From Menstruation Pop Quizzes While Being Intersex

“That being said, I’d like to live in a world someday where people don’t automatically assume my body looks and functions a certain way, that makes room for people like me and my experiences.”

Claudia April 22, 2014 35 Comments
Geekery

Drawn to Comics: Celebrating the Eisner-Nominated Women of 2014

The nominees for the Eisner Awards were recently announced, recognizing the best in the comic book industry. Here are all the women who were nominated.

Mey April 22, 2014 4 Comments
Book Features

National Poetry Month: YaliniDream Opens Spaces and Hearts

I ended up taking advantage of the fact that I was on the margins. I used the power of invisibility to crack open spaces at the edges. The power of performance is impermanence — nobody could catch it and say “here’s proof of what she is saying or doing.”

Adrian April 21, 2014 3 Comments
Parenting & Family

OPEN THREAD: Keeping It Queer in the Suburbs

I don’t want to let go my connection to the vibrant, inspiring queer culture that’s not immediately accessible to me in my strip-malls-and-big-box-stores environment. How do you keep it queer in your day-to-day life in the suburbs?

VillageQ April 21, 2014 54 Comments
TV Reviews

MTV’s “Faking It” Is Pretty Good, For Real

Turns out those irritating trailers were just Trojan Horses delivering a cute show with a queer female lead to all of us here on The Isle of Lesbos.

Riese April 21, 2014 50 Comments
Geekery

Star Trek N00b, Episode 20: Tomorrow is Yesterday (And We’re No Longer N00bs!)

The very last Star Trek N00b recap!

Loraine April 21, 2014 8 Comments
Food Lists

22 Ways To Eat Soba Noodles Forever

For the week ahead: a whole bunch of ways to eat soba noodles, because soba noodles are delicious.

Ryan Yates April 21, 2014 12 Comments
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More Than Words: 11 “Queer” Questions From 70 Years Of Gallup Polls

What do other people think of us?! The country wants to know.

Cara April 21, 2014 8 Comments
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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is A Spooning Switch

How to fingerblast, air sex, how to start using sex toys, bathroom hook-ups and more.

Ryan Yates April 20, 2014 13 Comments
Society + Culture

Sunday Funday’s Gonna Blaze and Praise With Alex Vause, Laverne Cox, and Mary Lambert

Happy 4/20! Happy Easter! Happy Pesach! Happy Sunday Funday! Now put down those Peeps and/or matzoh and dig in to some good gay news.

Carmen April 20, 2014 13 Comments
Lesbian Sex

30 Sexy Dinosaur Facts For When You Can’t Think of What to Say in Bed

If you’ve ever thought, “I really wish I knew some super sexy dino facts,” this is definitely the list for you.

Mey April 19, 2014 50 Comments
Geekery

I’m Not Mad, Just Disappointed: Where Are The Women of Google’s Project Ara?

The idea of a modular phone is really amazing, but there is something conspicuously absent from Google ATAP’s Project Ara press.

A.E. Osworth April 19, 2014 11 Comments
Webcomics

Saturday Morning Cartoons: A Case of the Floppies

In which Andy has a billion personality flaws, but their gender isn’t one of them.

Archie April 19, 2014 18 Comments
Straddleverse

FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Every Last Nook and Cranny

HEY! Get in here. I can’t eat these english muffins without you.

Carmen April 18, 2014 198 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #123: I Am Not A Melodramatic Person.

Topics include Clueless, wounds and self-denial, cults, Vera Nabakov, the Top Chef cruise, a botched rape investigation and more!

Riese April 18, 2014 5 Comments
Politics + Activism

Turkey’s Plan to Segregate LGBT Prisoners is Bad, But So Is the USA’s

Prisons in both Turkey and the United States separate LGBT individuals from the general population, but this form of segregation hardly solves the issue of violence in prison facilities. In fact, it may further endanger LGBT prisoners.

Helen April 18, 2014 10 Comments
Queer Fashion

5 Fashionable Ways to Signal Your Queer Girl Status

Have no worries lil’ femme chick-adees, I’m here to give you the top 5 pieces of clothing to add to your wardrobe that will instantly spike up anyone’s gaydar without getting an Alternative Lifestyle Haircut.

Nina April 18, 2014 65 Comments
Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Would Never Write You Off

Peanut butter love, uteruses as fictional characters and open thread chatter, #Blessed

carrie April 18, 2014 9 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit #44: Silent Reading Party

I don’t know about you, but a party where everyone sits quietly in a bar and reads together sounds like MY KIND OF PARTY.

Ryan Yates April 18, 2014 6 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

In Spring Love With These Three Books, Latinas in Media and Sister Spit

“Go see weirdos and women and everyone living on the fabulous fringes of society doing things, please. I’ll go with you. We can take all our boos, cats, and brujas on a communal date.”

gabby April 17, 2014 8 Comments
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