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Society + Culture

Come Vibe with Me: Simple Sunday Goodbyes

This final “Come Vibe With Me” is full of sweet goodbyes and chill thank you’s. Also, Megan Thee Stallion meets Mean Girls, hella love for Chloe X Halle and a request for Angel Haze to stare at me forever.

By Shelli Nicole| 19 hours ago | 7 Comments
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NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Calling All Size Queers

When it comes to dildos, how big is too big? Also: what Venus in Pisces means for your love life, keeping an ex’s nudes, and more.

By Carolyn Yates| 20 hours ago
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Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Now Let’s Actually Look at This LGBT Gallup Poll, Shall We…

How TV stories have shaped our understanding of AIDS, 14 fixes for pandemic monotony, R.O. Kwon on misunderstanding kink, and the intwined histories of white supremacy and transphobia.

By Carmen Phillips| February 25, 2021 | 2 Comments
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Books

Lez Liberty Lit: Let’s Loiter

It’s ok not to remember everything that you read, a new fund for Black creatives, and what is it like to explore childhood horror through the lens of queer adulthood?

By Carolyn Yates| February 25, 2021
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Arts + Pop Culture

Pop Culture Fix: Charlize Theron Was Serious About That Lesbian “Die Hard” Remake, Y’all

Also in today’s Pop Culture Fix: Gillian Anderson will play Eleanor Roosevelt, Legends of Tomorrow is moving to Sundays, the Zendaya interview that’s raising perfectly sculpted queer eyebrows, and more!

By Heather Hogan| February 24, 2021 | 6 Comments
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Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Lesbians! Feeding the Queer Rights Movement, One Potluck at a Time!

Halle Berry grew up by practicing kissing on girls (stars, they’re just like us). Also, Megan Thee Stallion interviews Rep. Maxine Waters, more truly excellent Britney reads, and what does abortion access really look like during a pandemic?

By Carmen Phillips| February 23, 2021 | 5 Comments
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Arts + Pop Culture

Pop Culture Fix: Uzo Aduba Will Play the Openly Gay Lead in a New Drama From “The Good Wife” Creators

Queen Latifah’s crushing the Sunday ratings, Batwoman’s new non-binary character, the best movie endings, Roxane Gay on her love-hate relationship with HGTV, Ashley Benson’s new crime podcast, and more!

By Heather Hogan| February 22, 2021 | 6 Comments
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Come Vibe With Me: Snow Day Silence

Sometimes unexpected silence is all the sweetness you really need. Also, I’m still crushing on Arlo Parks, customized herbal care packages for Black folks, and find out what happens when Tilda Swinton is the link to one hell of a meet-cute.

By Shelli Nicole| February 21, 2021 | 3 Comments
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NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Knows What Kink Is

What “kink” means, lies about kissing, vaccinating sex workers, how transparent dating app policies are (not very) and more.

By Carolyn Yates| February 21, 2021 | 1 Comment
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Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Happy Birthday Audre Lorde and Toni Morrison

The queer art for divorce, advice on cohabiting with your girlfriend for the first time (should you split the rent?), the librarian war against QAnon, Carmen Maria Machado on Phoebe Bridgers, and more going into your weekend!

By Carmen Phillips| February 18, 2021 | 1 Comment
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Pop Culture Fix: Demi Lovato Opens Up About Having 3 Strokes and a Heart Attack in “Dancing With the Devil” Trailer

Viola Davis and Stacey Abrams in conversation, Thunder will appear in the Black Lightning spin-off, the story behind those Lady Gaga Oreos, Reign’s Adelaide Kane comes out as bi, and more!

By Heather Hogan| February 17, 2021 | 1 Comment
A three-fold collage of famous lesbian movie period pieces: First, the newly released "The World To Come" in which two lesbians in the 1800s stand inches away from each other's nose, then "Ammionate" in which two lesbians from the 1800s also stand inches away from each other's nose, and finally "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" in which once again lesbians from the 1800s stand inches away from each other's nose — this time on a beach.
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Lesbians Can’t Exist After 1895, So Says Hollywood

You’re probably doing your pandemic pod all wrong, dispatches from the California stripper strike, wait what is going on with Cara Delevingne and Jaden Smith? And photography of lesbian joy from the 1970s that will warm your heart right in the middle of a cold February.

By Carmen Phillips| February 16, 2021 | 15 Comments
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Arts + Pop Culture

Pop Culture Fix: Ashlyn Harris and Ali Krieger Adopt a Daughter and Member of the 2040 USWNT

Dolly Parton will finally appear on Grace & Frankie, baby-eating witch Kate McKinnon doubts QAnon, Ruth Negga will play queer legend Josephine Baker, Brooklyn Nine-Nine will end with a shortened season eight, and more!

By Heather Hogan| February 15, 2021 | 6 Comments
Society + Culture

Come Vibe With Me: Good News

I’m not letting Imposter Syndrome knock me from celebrating my good news. Also, let’s talk about how cute Kaash Paige is, celebrate Megan Thee Stallion being a beautiful babe and demand more movies shows us Black girls kissing.

By Shelli Nicole| February 14, 2021 | 4 Comments
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Or Is Not A Lie

Some Valentine’s suggestions if you’re into that kind of thing; the many ways to be kinky; the many ways to be probably in love with your best friend; publish more queer erotica and more.

By Carolyn Yates| February 14, 2021
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Michelle Trachtenberg, Amber Benson, Charisma Carpenter Under One Banner: “F*CK Joss Whedon”

Excellent reads from noted queer authors Kristen Arnett and Leah Johnson, grown up love stories that are certain to make you cry before Valentine’s Day (one starring Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman) — and more to wrap up the week.

By Carmen Phillips| February 11, 2021 | 3 Comments
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Books

Lez Liberty Lit: I Love A Semicolon

Semicolons are the best; so is having a nemesis; remembering gay bars; “the continual project of reckoning with ourselves”; and more.

By Carolyn Yates| February 11, 2021 | 1 Comment
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Arts + Pop Culture

Pop Culture Fix: Rose “Tasha Williams” Rollins Will Star in a Gay Women’s Basketball Series on BET

We’ve decided Rosie is Bette Porter’s arch-nemesis in Gen Q, Jasika Nicole joins Peacock’s Punky Brewster reboot, Callie Torres/Sara Ramirez’s lasting legacy, and more!

By Heather Hogan| February 10, 2021 | 6 Comments
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Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: GQ Declares Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird “The Most Beloved Power Couple in Sports”

One Million Moms is boycotting this American Girl doll for having lesbian aunts (lol what!?!?), a history of Black Queer Chicago and AIDS Activism, and Serena Williams the GOAT has so many trophies she can’t keep them straight.

By Carmen Phillips| February 9, 2021 | 4 Comments
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Arts + Pop Culture

Pop Culture Fix: Last Night’s Sports Games Winners Were The Puppies

Netflix picks up Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga’s Passing, Jojo Siwa is making a live-action musical about her life, Dan Levy can’t keep his promise to the lesbian M&M’s, how Captain Marvel helped WWE star Tegan Nox come out as bisexual, and more!

By Heather Hogan| February 8, 2021 | 8 Comments
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Society + Culture

Come Vibe With Me: It’s Just a Little Crush

Just tell them you have a crush, I swear you’ll be okay after you do. Also, let’s leave Black women alone and start radicalizing our parents more, shall we?

By Shelli Nicole| February 7, 2021 | 4 Comments
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