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halloween

Motti Rates His Past Halloween Costumes

I dressed so frequently as men/male characters far before realizing I was trans.

Motti

Oct 9, 2025

Against a peach background, a cartoon description of three different Halloween costumes and what they say about you: A Skeleton (Nerd, You're getting body paint on everything and everyone), Cowboy (horse girl, this also isn't a costume for you), Straight Couple (it's camp, you're so funny actually)

webcomics

Reine #27: What Your Halloween Costume Says About You

Which one of you is the vampire and which one’s the vampire hunter?

Ren Strapp

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Oct 30, 2021

halloween

How To Choose A Halloween Costume

Halloween costumes are traditionally scary – ghosts, goblins, political figures. Look back at the last 20 years and realize … that you frequently went an entire year wearing a costume…

Abbie Jones

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Oct 25, 2021

Elise Bauman photoshopped in front of a Christmas tree wearing a Santa hat

pop culture fix

Pop Culture Fix: Carmilla’s Elise Bauman Makes the Yuletide Gay in Hallmark’s First Lesbian Christmas Movie

Also! The tricky trans politics of FX’s Y: The Last Man, Rosanny Zayas on Afro-Latina representation, Courtney Vandersloot makes more WNBA history, and more!

Heather Hogan

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Sep 29, 2021

image shows IUD on a background of Yellow, Pink and Blue.

health

Out with the Old: One Black Femme’s Struggle to Remove Their IUD

“While the gyno tried to wiggle out the device, she seemed to forget I was even in the room. It was just her and my uterus, locked in a battle…

Simone Person

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Sep 13, 2021

webcomics

Foolish Child #103: After School Pick Up

I get why you told that woman to kick rocks when she implied you weren’t being a proper parent by not forcing your kid to hang out with her kid…

Dickens

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Sep 8, 2021

A close-up portrait of someone cradling a very young baby, with the person's arms visible and the baby's bare feet up close to the lens.

parenting & family

Nursing as a Nonbinary Person Was Hard; Getting Back to my Binder Was Harder

My intention was always to go back to my binders as soon as I was done nursing my son. But the longer I waited, and the longer they sat there…

Shelly Jay Shore

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Jun 29, 2021

The author and her family pose for a photo at a previous Pride event.

lgbt pride

Nudity, Kink, and Safe Spaces for Kids Can All Coexist at Pride

As a gay parent, I have a lot of grievances about Pride — not one of them is about bare body parts or leather dykes and daddies.

KaeLyn

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Jun 22, 2021

A young woman wearing a sleep shirt and shorts sits slouched on the edge of her bed, looking into a full-length mirror with a dissatisfied expression on her face

love + sex

Unlearning Shame, Relearning Pleasure: Resources on Healing From Purity Culture

Reflect on the ways in which you’ve internalized purity culture’s messages about sex, love, and what is “good” and what is “bad” or shameful in your own life

Christina Tesoro

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Jun 14, 2021

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