FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Every Last Nook and Cranny
HEY! Get in here. I can’t eat these english muffins without you.
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!
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.
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.
The Comment Awards Would Never Write You Off
Peanut butter love, uteruses as fictional characters and open thread chatter, #Blessed
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.
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.”
And They Lived Heterosexually Ever After: Why I’m Not Recapping Once Upon A Time Anymore
“Fun as it was to mercilessly tear this show apart, the buck stops here.”
Glee Episode 516: “Tested” Will Test Your Endurance For An Episode Without Lesbians
This week on Glee, Blaine ate a lot of cronuts and everybody got tested for STDs!
VIDEO: The “Orange Is The New Black” Season Two Trailer Is Here, Lovely, Amazing
This is the largest portion of Season Two we’ve ever been served, and it is fracking DELICIOUS.
Anonymous Sex Toy Review: The Dorado
This glass g-spot dildo will make your insides sparkle.
Matzo Brei: Nothing to Pass-over Here
How do you make omelets and French toast even better than they already are? Matzo, that’s how.
Dear Queer Diary: {!:,)?&;.;
If you had to snuggle with a punctuation mark, which would you choose?
Q-taku: Your Colossal Guide to “Attack On Titan,” And Its Shiny New English Dub
I watched the dub premiere of Attack on Titan at Anime Boston. Here’s why I think everyone who is interested in awesome female characters and good queer representation should give this brutal action anime a chance.
Social Skills or Stereotypes? What My Autism Classes Didn’t Teach Me
“Social skills classes are particularly bad places to learn gender and sexuality lessons because they combine direct instruction with the neurotypical authority of telling us how to act. Socialization groups seem safer, but sometimes, gender and sexuality discrimination still subtly invade them. Where do we go from here? I believe the solution is multi-tiered.”
26 Special Ways You Described Yourself When Registering For A-Camp
“I have a goddess quad of Beyoncé, Misty Copeland, Laverne Cox and Michelle Rodriguez and I devote to thrice daily in the hopes that the patriarchy will finally crumble and fall at their wrath.”
The Four Most Underrated Ellen Page Movies
“She’s not the protagonist in this one but she does kiss a girl and is very self-righteous which I think does it for a lot of people.”
10 LGBT Women Kicking Ass in Politics Worldwide
Queer women work in politics around the world. Here are 10 who were the first out women to hold their particular seat, and just a few of the cool things they’ve done since then.
Also.Also.Also. Derrick Gordon is Marching for Equality and Other Stories We Missed This Week
UMass basketball star comes out, Moroccan women take to the streets, The Monument Quilt takes the nation by force and more!
Monica Jones Found Guilty of “Manifesting Prostitution,” Will Be “Rescued” from Sex Work by Incarceration
“In May of 2013, Monica Jones became one of the people arrested by Project ROSE; the charge was “manifesting prostitution” for accepting a ride home to her neighborhood from men who turned out to be undercover cops. This week, Jones was found guilty, and faces the possibility of serving time in a men’s prison as a trans woman.”