At my Catholic all-girls middle school, I liked to tell people I was Buddhist. It was my feeble attempt at preteen rebellion. I enjoyed interjecting, “Oh yeah? Well, I don’t believe Jesus was real because I’m Buddhist!”

We’ve also got updates on Home Economics, New Amsterdam, Work in Progress, American Horror Story, In the Dark, and A Million Little Things!

Topics include Aldi Supermarkets, Whitney Houston, McDonald’s, Brazilian Butt Lifts, The Rosie O’Donnell Show, COVID in Kirkland, restorative justice and more!

Plus updates on Burden of Truth, The Republic of Sarah, and Motherland: Fort Salem.

Dolly Parton loving Lil Nas X is all of us gay aunts loving Lil Nas X, Phoebe Bridgers is getting sued, Remember Britney not just for her tragedy but as the Pop Queen she is, and Happy National Coffee Day.

Every other week, I’ll run my metal detector over the literary internet, dig up whatever beeps, and present to you my findings.

This week on The L Word: Generation Q, Alice is forced to eat two buckets of popcorn, Shane releases an endangered bumblebee into the wild, Sophie does a solid Matthew McConaughey impression, Dani is rescued from a near-collision with a scooter by a handsome prince and so much more!

Over the past couple weeks, I’ve watched forty features and the first two episodes of a TV show. Yes, forty. Consider this list a reference, a collection of short reviews for the rest of the year’s buzzed about films and films that should be buzzed about.

New Samantha Irby! New Leah Johnson! Get excited for these upcoming LGBTQ+ and feminist book releases, and support queer authors this spring.

Any movie in which sisters reunite to kill bad boyfriends feels like Christmas to me, okay?

New seasons of Star Trek Discovery, Dickinson and Gentefied; a super-queer comedy series about a gender-fluid Pakistani nanny/baritsa, a star-studded thriller about a girl’s soccer team and so much more to anticipate!

“I would follow Kehlani to Narnia, to a gambling ring. Really to anywhere.”

How to stand up to straight people wedding expectations, deal with disappointment around a potential sperm donor, decide whether or not to cut off given family, know whether you should ask your ex-boss out, and more!

Career anxiety, dating after sexaul assault, consent and polyamory and more!

Not like you NEED a need backstory to enjoy Sara Ramirez strutting around in a suit. 

“I never really wanted to move in there and be like, “Hey son,” you know? That’s my stepdad voice.”

Carrie gets a new hip, Charlotte’s kid gets a new name, and Miranda gets some gay sex.

It’s Halloween in Lesbian Los Angeles and nobody is respecting how cute Sophie’s costume is! Also Dani’s rebounding with her Bad Friend, Micah’s getting parenting advice from a REALLY SPECIAL GUEST STAR, Alice and Taylor are having a spooky night in and Ivy’s waiting out back in her car for Shane, so….

It sounds so dysfunctional and absurd that yes — I would indeed like to see it. I don’t come to the Housewives for tales of true love, I come to see the unexpected.

Fabiola’s story taps into a real dynamic in queer communities, but “Never Have I Ever” couldn’t bring itself to actually identify the problem for what it truly is: racism.