Well the holidays are almost over and we’re coming up on the 2020 elections. TIME FLIES, LOVE U.
Queer as in F*ck You
How to Wear Cargo Pants—Because, Yes, They’re Back.
The Equality Act Would Outlaw LGBT Discrimination. Will It Ever Be Passed? Feels like a rhetorical q.
Here’s a lovely look at Julia Turshen (she shared her recipe for baked oatmeal + apple squares with us last year for Friendsgiving!!) and her cookbooks and queer food: Queer As Apple Pie: 2 Cookbooks, 2 Apple Recipes, and Defining ‘Queer Food’. And while we’re here, her wife Grace Bonney Asks, What Does Queer Look Like in 2018? (I would say “tired.”)
Queer Sugar Babies Explain How to Find a Sugar Mommy.
Revisiting the Life of Trailblazing Queer Heroine Annemarie Schwarzenbach.
We got some recent heat on twitter re: our lack of certain music coverage and LISTEN ok I GET IT but we simply don’t have a music person on staff right now and I CAN’T SPIN SWEET POTATOES INTO MUSICAL COVERAGE *cries softly* but look, I can and do include music-related links in this twice-weekly link roundup! So here you go, fresh music things for your enjoyment: Flint Eastwood Is the Queer, Detroit Artist Making Vulnerability Cool cool cool cool AND COBRAH is the Lesbian Queen of Sweden’s Fetish Scene and bonus, she is wearing an octopus on her head, so. Also, Al was chill enough to include several music things in yesterday’s Sunday Funday! ???
A Queer Baseball Geek Programmed a Brilliant Donation System That Targets MLB Homophobia.
Anti-gay crackdown in Dar es Salaam.
Saw This, Thought of You
You Won’t Like Me When I’m Angry.
The Correct Way to Go See a Movie Is by Yourself. Please lmk if you’ve seen a movie alone on purpose and how that went for you.
M.F.K. Fisher and the Art of the Culinary Selfie.
Inside the Tree of Life Congregation, the Prayer for the Dead Brings Hope.
Political Snacks
Before the Midterms, Five Questions for the Political Left.
Lesbian Writers Weigh in on Resistance and the Midterms.
The Resistance to Donald Trump Is Not What You Think.
Over 400 Black Women Are Running in the Midterms. Meet 5 Who Could Help Make History.