The Fun Home star returned to her roots at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in New York City on August 31st to perform a one-woman cabaret show following a rural lesbian through her tomboy childhood, an engagement (to a man!), her first stint as an actress in New York, another marriage (to a woman!), and her ever-tense relationship with her Colorado cowboy father.

Talking with three of the stars of trans-created webseries Her Story about love, representation, staffing a set with trans women and so much more.

Where “Transparent” succeeds in telling a trans story that’s largely focused on how cis people relate to and see trans people, “This is Me” goes one step further and shows trans people talking to other trans people about their lives and experiences.

“Fuck flowers. Fuck everything. We’re ordering about a hundred LED twinkling lights and I’m gonna stick gold washi tape on ’em and sprinkle them everywhere and call it a night.”

“To fully plumb the depths of my heart requires more than a single bar graph.”

Another death of a young black man at the hands of police in St Louis, the first ever openly trans White House staffer, why marriage licenses still aren’t being issued in a county in Kentucky after the Supreme Court decision, an attempt to ban LGBT-friendly children’s books in Venice, and more.

How the representation of queerness is changing in African writing; new Shirley Jackson and Dr. Seuss; teen magazines; sexism in publishing; and more.

She knows who killed Jenny Schecter.

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Recent books featuring queer people of color, travelling and reading, reading and your brain, your favorite curse word and more. Plus coverage of the Harper Lee coverage.

Zoie Palmer and Ruby Rose face off on Dark Matter this week, lesbian director Kelsey Jannings returns to BoJack Horseman, Batwoman is getting animated, Lavrene Cox chats some more about Caitlyn Jenner, Miley Cyrus is hosting the VMAs, Jimmy Fallon forgot her went on a bender with Tig Notaro, and more more more news!

Renee Montoya and Kate Kane, Peggy Carter and Angie Martinelli, Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy!

Where can I hang out with other queers in Portland? Is it okay that I was drunk when I filled out my A+ survey? Skins Fire: why? Why do straight people wear lesbian footwear? These questions of yours and more are answered in this here post.

Chang has a lot of secrets. The main one is she’s a total badass!

Stories include lethal lesbian vampires, Ellen Page’s lesbian movie Freeheld, girls liking girls in music videos, Welcome to the Dollhouse Part Duex, Ellen changing the world, Tig Notaro’s new doc and so much more!

“I’m still processing this. I’m not okay.”

The BBC is undertaking a giant study to find out how people feel about LGBT representation on TV, and Kathryn Prescott says fans will not be disappointed by Naomi & Emily’s Season Four romance on Skins. Plus, Mia Kirschner is on Vampire Diaries, Lilith Fair 2010 announced more cities, Sarah Paulson will be on Grey’s Anatomy, Lindsay Lohan isn’t a blonde anymore, and Brittany Murphy’s husband has some ‘interesting’ stuff to say about his wife’s death.

“I went on a date with Laneia once.”

The nearly half a decade that passed between the first and second waves of feminism was a period of great transition for what hadn’t even yet been named the “feminist movement.”

Alison’s brother’s imaginary friend is A, duh.