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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Misses The Hunt

How to open your relationship; how to make vanilla sex more interesting; what’s happening to our relationships in the pandemic and more.

Ryan Yates —

Sep 27, 2020

Saturday Morning Cartoons

the lakeview crew

In a black and white, two-panel comic, Max calls Maya on the phone. Max has short cut curly hair and layered shirts. It's been a hard week — with zoom calls getting the best of them, fires causing environmental distress to their home, and the mourning of Breonna Taylor. More than anything, they just need a friend.

visual art

The Lakeview Crew #7: Hold All The Feels

Sometimes you just need to call your friends, breath together, and feel all the feels. Maya may not always be the best listener, but after a hard week, Max and…

Emma Rust —

Sep 26, 2020

the dyke kitchen

an overhead view of a table setting with a large bowl of purple cabbage salad, a tray of waffles, a pitcher of gravy, a small bowl with a little round fried hen nestled inside

food and drink

The Dyke Kitchen: Classic Air-Fried Cornish Game Hen & Waffles

When I finally got the waffle maker from my mom that I’d been waiting for, and my friend Vinh;Paul was gifted an air fryer from his mom, we knew the…

Kamala Puligandla —

Sep 26, 2020

extra extra

reproductive health

A range of pro-choice protest signs, the central one reading KEEP ABORTION LEGAL

news

Extra! Extra!: What Would Happen If We Did Lose Roe v. Wade? Let’s Talk About It

This week’s Extra! Extra! turns to other areas of the news. Not because RBG’s death and the verdict on Breonna Taylor’s murder aren’t important. But because sometimes things are so…

the team —

Sep 25, 2020

Roundtables

tv roundtable

A collage of four shows on our list: The Bisexual, Friday Night Lights, Golden Girls, Dracula.

television

What 4 TV Shows Do You Love More Than Anyone Else?

“These roundtables are fun, because sometimes I’m answering and I’m like GOD I’M SO MYSELF and I feel that here. Not just because I feel anxious about whether I really…

The TV Team —

Sep 25, 2020

longform journalism

Things I Read That I Love

literature

Things I Read That I Love #313: In A “Peeking Around The Dinner Party Host’s House On Your Way To The Bathroom” Kind of Way

Topics include Black voters, a bad reality TV show, murder, Judith Butler, how we quarantine, the tyranny of chairs, TikTok, Bath & Body Works, the Eco-Yogi slumlords of Brooklyn, Emily…

Riese —

Sep 25, 2020

basketball

wnba

health

Alyssa Thomas Is Carrying The Sun Through The WNBA Playoffs — But She Shouldn’t Have To

As a sports fan, I’m conflicted. I want to watch Thomas do improbable things. The games are better and more exciting with her in them—I’m fairly convinced that had she…

Frankie de la Cretaz —

Sep 25, 2020

janelle monae

the speakeasy

film

“Antebellum” Forgot That Black Women Can’t Save the World From Fascism, We Only Must Save Ourselves

Seeing as the modern police force is an evolution of slave catchers, for a film trying to make a point about how the horrors of the past still exist in…

danijanae —

Sep 25, 2020