As Vermont became the second state to introduce a bill to decriminalize sex work, the real possibility of decrim future is on our horizon. But how would decrim take shape in the United States? Would the police still arrest sex workers? Will sex workers get labor rights? And what about human trafficking?

Throughout its eight episodes Work in Progress showed the value in being there for people even when it’s hard – and the importance of knowing when to walk away.

Allowing someone as funny and weird as McEnany to make a show that opens itself up to all the facets of herself is such a gift to us all.

If the first season was a spiral, the second seems to be about the mundanity of doing okay. And like the first season, its humor, its pathos, its power is found in its casual, low-key specificity.

“Generation Q” and “Work in Progress” are renewed and yes I literally screamed when I heard the news! I love it when we win!

Also this week, Covid comes to Work In Progress and American Horror Story was actually pretty scary!

Topics include Taylor Swift, Dylan Roof, where your Forever 21 shirts get made, Colin Kaepernick, reading Jane Eyre while black, Milk Bar, the sorrow and shame of the accidental killer, and more.

Part of this job is making peace with the fact that I will, in fact, never get everything done that I want to.

Just because, let’s be honest: your workplace could use some queer witchy energy.

Is it really possible that basically half of all college-educated gays are still in the closet at work?

Woven throughout the series are thoughts on care and caretaking and who does that care and caretaking as well as domestic work.

If Strength and Leo season was about finding fiery confidence in the face that we show to the world, Virgo and the Hermit ask us to shine that brilliant light inward, to recognize all that we are and all that we are capable of becoming. What have you been hiding from yourself?

The first-of-its-kind study revealed some surprising findings on queer and disabled folks in particular.

The queer community was dealt another severe blow last week when The L Word: Generation Q and Work in Progress were removed from Showtime’s streaming service.

Fighting the Christofascist uprising on our doorstep will take getting out of our complacency and belief that people can’t possibly be as bad as they seem.

In the past week, two standout reports have been released: Unerased by Mic, and the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey by the National Center for Transgender Equality.

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Angeria says that she’s called a drag lesbian because she likes to date other queens.

Ferguson protestors were able to meet with U.S. Attorney Callahan to voice demands.

More history made at the DNC, the Berta Cáceres Human Rights in Honduras Act, voter ID laws, new data on gay-straight alliances and more.