the team

Monday Roundtable

Roundtables

movie lists

Monday Roundtable: These Are the LGBTQ Movies That Destroyed Us Emotionally

“I don’t know why I watched it, I guess maybe I wanted to get destroyed again and Netflix didn’t exist yet. I feel like my entire generation will never recover…

the team —

Apr 30, 2018

greatest hits

lesbian visibility day

first person

Lesbian Visibility Day Roundtable: Carrying History, Worshipping Women, F*cking Up the Patriarchy

“For me, lesbian completely casts aside the idea of men. It puts me and the people I love ahead of the patriarchy. It relieves me of even pretending that I…

the team —

Apr 26, 2018

"personality cult"

Monday Roundtable

culture

Monday Roundtable: Our First Online Communities

“I also spent some time writing an intentionally awful Snape/Dobby/Giant Squid love triangle short story because sometimes you have to make your own fun.”

the team —

Apr 23, 2018

campership

fullscreen

camp

CAMPERSHIP ALERT! Planned Parenthood Is Sponsoring A-Camp X!

Planned Parenthood knows we deserve to feel good in our bodies, our communities and our lives — and one winner of this contest will get to do so at A-Camp…

the team —

Apr 16, 2018

"personality cult"

Monday Roundtable

first person

Monday Roundtable: Introverts and Extroverts and Our Myers-Briggs Personality Types

“Apparently INFJs operate more off feeling, and I would say that intuition very much commands my brain/heart ship, so it’s an accurate assessment. How’d this bitch know that I’m soft-spoken…

the team —

Apr 9, 2018

murder

trans women

politics + activism

Sasha Wall Is the 8th Trans Woman Murdered in the US in 2018

The 29-year-old Black trans woman was shot and killed in South Carolina.

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Apr 3, 2018

Monday Roundtable

relationships

Monday Roundtable: The Real and Fictional Couples Who Inspired Our Very First Relationship Goals

Whether we saw them on screen or in real life, we took notice of these dynamic couples and their undeniable chemistry and love.

the team —

Apr 2, 2018

trans day of visibility

trans women of color

gender

Trans Day of Visibility Roundtable: Letters to the Trans People Who Shaped Us

“You make me proud to be Mexican, proud to be fat, proud to be queer and proud to be trans. You make me proud to be myself. I love you…

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Mar 31, 2018

a+ roundtable

Monday Roundtable

af+

A+ Roundtable: The Sex We Just Can’t Get Into

Sex: it’s complicated! Some people like some things and other people like other things and some people love things other people do not like at all!

the team —

Mar 26, 2018

a+ roundtable

Monday Roundtable

af+

A+ Roundtable: Our First Time Watching Porn

Here’s all the good, bad and the ugly about our first time viewing porn. Remember VHS tapes? Were we ever so young?

the team —

Mar 19, 2018

a+ roundtable

homophobia

af+

A+ Roundtable: Internalized Homophobia and Other Endearing Forms of Low-Key Self-Hatred

Unpacking internalized homophobia (and lesbophobia, and biphobia, and transphobia, and misogyny, and MORE) is hard, but for you we did our best!

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Mar 12, 2018

Monday Roundtable

culture

Monday Roundtable: Our Most Incorrect Childhood Beliefs

“I thought the Alicia Keys poster on my wall could see me, which I think had something to do with internalized homophobia.”

the team —

Mar 5, 2018