This week’s Extra, Extra! brings you some reflections on the 2020 US election (not the primary!) from our beloved political writer and 2020 Democratic Debate Recapper Natalie, more disheartening immigration and LGBTQ+ news, conservative organizing, a new progressive campaign arm from AOC, and an update on the Wet’suwet’en land protectors.

The lights are out and everybody’s making out and we are having a live episode that you can watch (or read the transcript of!) right now, and also a podcast episode! WOW!

Meet the trans woman making professional soccer history, talking about the behind-the-scenes fashion that makes Killing Eve so hot, plus how to combat those “Sunday scaries” and more!

How do non-D&D Discords even work?!

“Call Your Girlfriend” is not just a song that holds up as a classic sad bop — but as a work of art that asks us to radically reimagine how we might uncouple ourselves from each other in gentler, more entangled ways.

The L Word: Generation Q featured 12 new queer characters of color in its first season, but media conversations about the show have largely remained driven by white points of view. So, we set out to change that.

I’m not trying to win you over to my interpretation of the lyrics of any of these songs; but I am inviting you to explore the world within each of them. Looking at songs we love through a trans lens can teach us new things about our gender.

I’m happy and grateful to be out, but I can’t get past feeling like I have created pain and difficulty for so many people.

A handy collection of our very best holigay content to help you make it through this special time of year. Good luck out there!

I would spend many hours trying to diagnose the emptiness Amanda left in her wake. I had lost something, but didn’t know what. Surely there’s a queer space on the page for stories that lack a middle?

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.

Plus updates on: Harley Quinn, In the Dark, S.W.A.T., The Good Fight, and Vagrant Queen.

I had no idea how deeply into my heart these kids would burrow, nor did I know that within it I would find one of my favorite queer love stories of all time.

Fifty years of words I liked reading and you will too! Authors include James Baldwin, bell hooks, Kiese Laymon, Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Toni Morrison, Bayard Rustin and Dr. Brittany Cooper.

“Cam” screenwriter Isa Mazzei’s new memoir is an accessible and honest portrayal of one woman’s stint in the online sex industry.

If the idea of having children as queer women is a fraught and complicated topic, Good Manners opens itself up to the mess.

Behold! Our seasonal list of every single TV show — new and returning — featuring a queer or trans woman character!

We are in a crucial moment where we can change trans representation in YA and do it in a way that doesn’t leave anyone behind.

From gorgeous graphic memoirs to epic fantasy tales, twisty thrillers, swoony romances, exceptional essay collections, and more, there’s an amazing queer book from 2019 on this list for everyone!

Come for the queer teen, stay for the resonant depiction of grief and superpowers.