Also: Janelle Monáe’s virtual reality concert experience, a Dickinson season two trailer, Demi Lovato reveals the exact moment she knew she was queer, some photos of Viola Davis working out just because, and more!

Star Trek is finally officially trans! Plus virtual concerts by Brandi Carlile, women truckers for suffrage, Fawzia Mirza got married, “The Glorias” trailer is here, and more! Happy Sunday!

Betty from Riverdale Remains a Bisexual Queen! Your favorite rapper Chika with an in-depth profile you’ve never seen from her before, Naomi Osaka bringing Black Lives Matter to the US Open, and how to *actually* get your vote counted in this hellscape of an election.

Also: Lizzo is going to develop some TV projects for Amazon, Zoë Kravitz rightfully calls out Hulu for cancelling High Fidelity, Rebecca Sugar and Noelle Stevenson in conversation, and more.

So much has happened, and in many ways it feels impossible for me to not look at everything through the lens of the insurrection in the U.S. Capitol. This is just one of those times where it’s as much as I can do to look at all the many ways America is, quite simply, falling apart right now. So this week’s Extra! Extra! is pretty much limited to American news: several angles of breaking down everything that’s horrifying about the insurrection, the Trump administration’s parting shots and how COVID continues to rage amid American incompetence.

The aftermath of covering protests in Portland, how the WNBA is honoring Breonna Taylor, France’s first transgender mayor and more!

“I can’t speak for all harm reduction efforts, and I think the impacts can be different depending on who you’re doing outreach with or who you are centering, but here in rural West Virginia, it’s a small community; the impact is so apparent.”

For the Gworls is a prime example of how Black trans organizers have found ways to keep one another safe, housed, and healthy despite violence at every turn.

Autostraddle spoke to reps from US political parties – including third parties – to ask them directly about their commitment to trans issues and what we can expect from them going into this election.

There are multiple ways to be an activist. It does not have to be a large public gesture. In private, trusting conversations with someone very different from you, you can create the space for revolutionary change. Connecting with each other on every scale contributes to a stronger global fight against injustice.

We are still here and there is still so much good in the world! Here are things to watch on a screen from your home — including Bad Bunny, Lizzo, and Trixie Mattel. Happy Sunday, babes!

Black femmes won Oscars weekend, starring: Janet Mock, Janelle Monáe, Angelica Ross, Billy Porter, and MJ Rodriguez! Also, links about why we still don’t believe survivors, moms starting a housing rights revolution, and more.

This week’s Extra! Extra! reports another bit of news that flew under the radar, this time regarding gun control (it’s not good, you guys). We also cover the heinous violence against three trans women in LA this week, USAID’s erasure of LGBTQ+ people and an update on what’s going on around the US regarding police violence and the protests. And then we turn to the elections – by which I mean Russia, Belarus and the US.

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!

Former bisexual Congresswoman Katie Hill is writing her memoir, what the coronavirus teaches us about climate change, remembering Trayvon Martin, Elizabeth Warren plays “Name that Billionaire,” sex positive therapists reclaiming the narrative and more!

Happy Sunday! A Megan Rapinoe Funko, a Billie Jean King Barbie, a plea for Rosie Perez, and more good gay news from the week!

This week’s Extra! Extra! honors all the victims – past, present and future. Oh it needs to stop – there must be an end to the long list of names we memorialize. But I’m not naive enough to think more lives won’t be lost before we reach that point.

While gay men have necessary and urgent things to say about the enduring HIV/AIDS epidemic, women have always participated in AIDS activism. I spoke with two longtime feminist AIDS activists about queer community, care, and connection in the time of COVID-19.

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

News about a new A League of Their Own, U-Haul knows about U-Hauling, witchcraft, and Christmas! Happy Sunday!