48. identifying what episode of The Nanny it is based on C.C. Babcock’s hair

As a perfectionist, I’ll always be more comfortable sharing my shiny conclusions than my messy processes. And the best thing about climbing, for me, is that it’s pure process.

Natalie chatted with Chelsea Bush, Kim McCauley, and Stephanie Yang about this weekend’s matchup, the Jaelene Hinkle controversy, and what’s in store for the USWNT at the 2019 World Cup.

Plus updates on Coronation Street, Emmerdale, General Hospital, and The Young and the Restless!

“Jessi showed me that it was cool to focus on my ambitions and to form deep relationships with other girls instead of being boy-obsessed.”

AfterEllen is a part of a legacy of brilliant publications created by passionate lesbian, queer and bisexual women that unfortunately no longer exist, but were cool for a while.

“Feminism is about unlocking the bonds of separation. Seeing everyone as equals and raising up those who have been most oppressed by patriarchy. Tarot and oracle decks support this work because they give us a tool to connect to our atomic memory. A memory that knows the equality of all beings.”

A city in Texas debates a bathroom ordinance similar to North Carolina’s HB2 and it dies without a votes but there’s no telling what’s gonna happen in the state’s legislature in 2017; the FDA launched a multi-million dollar campaign aimed at LGBT young adults to quit using tobacco; women feel sexiest in their mid-thirties a new study says and more news.

Ruby Rose gets a GLAAD honor, Sarah Paulson talks about my favorite show to one of my favorite people, Julie Goldman snags a role on a new ABC lesbian-themed sitcom (!!), The Family’s lesbian lifetsyle blogger, behind the scenes of Carol and more!

Five years later, things are still exactly the same in Rosewood, PA.

“The first girl I ever kissed spent her summers on her uncle’s farm, helping him bale hay. She would come back to school with the insides of her wrists all welted-up like she had been stung by bees. I wanted to kiss each sting but I never asked.”

On family, memory, scar tissue, a 1999 Red Sox game, unreliable narrators, and setting the story straight.

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

In which things start falling apart.

Much ado about actresses surviving the ordeal of lesbian kisses — why do these confessions make headlines? Autostraddle & the ladies of AfterEllen weigh in. Also; Lindsay Lohan looks cute again!, Andy Warhol’s TV show, more GLEE guests (NPH!), Law & Order SVU features Mischa Barton and a legitimately hilarious Golden Globes wardrobe breakdown.

One Big Happy is coming to NBC in March. So soon!

“Forget all your ideas about what the person across the table from you might want until they tell you so you can actually listen when they do.”

This week on “Faking It,” Amy doesn’t win Miss Congeniality, but neither does Lauren, and neither does Karma. Neither does Liam! Or Duke or Shane or Reagan. But everybody’s hair looks GREAT.

Quotes from a new Rolling Stone cover story just make explicit the themes she’s been shredding about for years.

This week on the show that no one besides me and Stef are talking about, it must be lunchtime at this shoddily constructed preschool of a mansion, because everyone’s throwing tantrums and Farrah’s fibbing to the class. James Deen was not your boyfriend, sweetheart.