We’re here in this round of advice to tackle everything that is heavy. Our team answers questions around adoption, sexual assault within the queer community, the personal decisionmaking around having white friends as a POC — and more.

The show doesn’t look away from Deborah Vance’s homophobia (or from Ava’s flaws either), and it makes for a wildly uncomfortable and messy episode — in the best way.

“I love it, especially when it’s close up…it’s like I can almost taste it.”

Love remains not a lie here in 2022!

Elm Street was just another part of a society — our society, where people are taught to care very little for each other.

When I read Middlesex, I felt that tinge of recognition I think a lot of queer and trans people look for when they realize something is different about themselves.

In which we talk for a weirdly long time about who does laundry but also Yellowjackets, why a punk cover of “Mambo Italiano” is “our song,” and our sex drives.

A flowchart for reading about abolition, reclaiming summer as a fat brown babe, and is it ever OK for straight actors to play queer roles?

Let’s make some noise for the bottoms in the house! (It’s me, the bottom in the house.)

I thought that by 35, I’d be married. I thought by 35, I’d have kids. I thought I’d be straight.

A troublesome group chat, a moldy shower, being autistic at work, moving cities, and more!

Being femme is being unafraid. Unafraid of shape, of texture, of color.

“MAKE TRANS ICON BIRDO A MAIN PLAYABLE CHARACTER IN MARIO CART, YOU COWARDS!”

This is a story where I’m not the protagonist.

Would you cuddle Patricia?

Plus updates on How I Met Your Father, The Watchful Eye, grown-ish, Truth Be Told, Station 19, and A Million Little Things.

Also! I seriously cannot believe this Sara Ramirez Variety cover, Brittney Griner’s supporters have a new strategy to free her, Matthew Morrison Mr. Schue’s his way to getting fired from So You Think You Can Dance, and more!

I am in the business of writing honestly, especially about the things that hurt — heartbreak, disappointment, shame, poverty.

Plus updates on Grey’s Anatomy, Truth Be Told, A Million Little Things, How I Met Your Father, The Watchful Eye, and Fantasy Island.

“I wanna know about the image for Laneia’s hate fuck list — these are some very choice collage images…”