YES I’M CHEATING RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE DON’T @ ME.

A pandemic is a perfect time to unlearn perfectionism. We have so many chances to practice saying no. We have ongoing motivation to work on directing our anger and action toward institutions and people in power rather than our neighbors and loved ones.

At this moment in time with uprisings against anti-Blackness happening in the US and all over the world, it feels urgent to focus on Black authors who are imagining Black futures. Plus, it was Octavia Butler’s birthday on June 22!

First we get real deep, and then we get real funny. It’s Autostradle’s first recap of ABC Family’s new show “Pretty Little Liars,” which features a probs-lesbian protagonist named Emily. You should probably read this recap. Just for funsies.

Chances are, you know someone who is quarantining alone right now. Maybe even you, yourself, are alone, and have been for the past several weeks. If so, it’s important to learn how this extraordinary circumstance might be effecting your mental, emotional, and physical health – and what steps you can take to mitigate and reduce that harm.

Centering sex workers, and the hard won lessons that come with being a part of this community, are perhaps the most important steps we can take in an effort both to reduce harm, and to rebuild in the aftermath of COVID19.

Kid’s books with queer characters that deserve your attention, the absurd lie of “pro-choice violence,” fat women onscreen deserve better than crappy love interests, and RIP to Katherine Johnson the G.O.A.T.

I pray that all my little trans sisters receive this love, this support and that more broadly in the black community we can make sure all of our children grow in love and kindness.

Plus updates on All American, some incredibly important episodes of Grown-ish and Deputy, and the TV Team made you a special valentine that’s full of our favorite tv ladies kissing.

Celebrate the New Year with Soviet mayonnaise.

Eight candidates remain and you have one day to vote!

We’re back for a barely conceivable fourth installment looking at the big dogs, little dogs and doggy dogs of more lesbian and bisexual women of history who were obsessed with them!

Chosen family, Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris, books!!!, flying monkeys, queer immigrants and DACA, sneaky sexism, and so much more! Real fun stuff!

Make sure to be kind and generous to yourself, give yourself plenty of time to process all of these important feelings, and don’t rush it!

Living apart together, having kids when you’re poly, when PMS and anxiety ask you for a threesome and more.

“My favorite moment in the movie happens during the climax when one of the skinheads punches Judy. She punches him back. He calls her a dyke. And she says thank you.”

How to have queer sex with a trans woman as a cis woman who hasn’t before, how to give feedback during sex, BDSM and sex work as tools of resistance and more.

The Quaker Aunts were the stuff of family legend, fearsome women in sensible shoes. Did one of them really smuggle Jewish children across the Alps before World War II?

The Superfriends enter their final battle with the big bads of the season, and also Alex and Kelly finally talk about their intensity.

A showcase for trans and nonbinary games creators, Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan’s podcast, queer tarot and mysticism, this picture of Janelle Monáe!!! And more this Sunday Funday.