“I hated my body and punished it, and it hated me and punished me back. Is that what happened? That’s the thing about getting sick the way I got sick: nailing it down.”

140 articles and essays to read and save and love, in celebration of the 100th edition of “Things I Read That I Love”

Topics include a “the girl in the closet” (a terrifying story of child abuse), stripping, the funeral business, 12 Years a Slave, sadness, sweatshops, bell hooks on “Lean In” and moar!

Were you actually discovered in a karaoke bar? “Yes, I was.” What were you singing? “Like the Way I Do’ by Melissa Etheridge.”

“The Nintendo showed up Christmas morning. All my friends had a Super Nintendo, but my parents held out for so long (bless them) that my brother and I skipped right to the Nintendo 64.”

Topics include Detroit, leaving New York, the illegal online network for discarding unwanted adopted children, toxic hair straightening, bikini waxing, airport security, The O.C., racism, hockey journalism, The History Channel and moar!

Writing a list in your journal is like playing Scattergories without the long and tense bouts of familial arguing.

Inside Year of the Mermaid is Ashley’s story. And it’s eerie how similar it sounds to yours.

Basically, this book is one big giant sex-ed zine, but it’s a book.

Coming out, one page at a time.

“But then Mulan came charging out of the closet, and one million homos stood up and said I KNEW IT, I FUCKING KNEW IT, MOTHERFUCKING HONOR TO US ALL.”

“But then again, my favorite princess was Belle, whose Stockholm Syndrome didn’t register as an issue to me, so long story short: Disney princesses fucked with all of our childhood concepts of healthy relationships.”

The weed fairy’s coming, Colorado’s in the doghouse, and there’s a straight chick making a living as a male model. Or something like that. I was too busy licking the lesbianism off of my Samoas, actually.

This one’s for all the Emily/Ali fans out there. Here’s some fuel for your fanfics.

“As a lesbian mom, it was especially hard to fight the urge to do the “right” thing, however slippery a concept that was, because I was representing a community, not just myself, I thought.”

This week on NSFW Sunday: interpreting human sexuality, modernist pickup lines, the lesbian sex scene in “Blue is the Warmest Color” and more.

Luckily there are other scouting alternatives for your kids!

Because of how upset and exhausted I assume y’all must be, I’ve made sure this recap is chock full of inappropriate captions and semi-offensive image editing and even drinking games you can play the next time you feel up to the challenge. Here is your veritable stuffed French toast of a recap, so go ahead and dig in.

L’shanah tovah to all the Jewish queers out there! This is the perfect honey cake to make to celebrate a sweet new year (and actually it’s delicious all year round, too).

Time to Werk Those Pecs!