Results for: be the change
-
“Batwoman” Episode 209 Recap: New Rules
I promised myself I wouldn’t spend this entire recap yelling, “BLACK WOMEN THOUGH!!” but in this scene (and another later), we get three Black women sharing screentime, and two of them are queer main characters on a network superhero drama. I didn’t know I was allowed to want this when Black Lightning entered my life, and for it to be happening again? Teenage Nic is screaming right now.
-
Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #34
I am (was?) dating the Tenderqueer from “Dykes and Their Emotional Support Albums” who listens to Phoebe Bridgers and they haven’t texted me back since right before Christmas. Did I have it coming?
-
28 Sex Toys for Food-Free Food Play
Love to get off on a super sexy cake sitting but get a sympathetic yeast infection almost immediately? These food-shaped sex toys are for you.
-
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Living Apart Together
Why sex parties are great, why blocking your ex is better, why actually we should all just delete social media and never look back and also never link it to a dating app, and more.
-
How the War on Porn Distracts Us From the Realities of Child Sexual Abuse
A former sex worker explains why new anti-porn legislation won’t stop images of child sexual abuse from proliferating on the internet.
-
Netflix’s “The Baby-Sitters Club” Invites You to Say Hello to Your Friends All Over Again
Netflix’s BSC adaptation is, to my surprise and delight, a faithful recreation of Stoneybrook and its resident squad of tween entrepreneurs with essential 2020 updates to Ann M. Martin’s easter candy-colored world.
-
The Dyke Kitchen: Diaspora Co. Queers Your Spice Cabinet
Sana Javeri Kadri brings her whole queer life to Diaspora Co., her company that’s decolonizing the spice trade, supporting Indian small farmers, and delivering banging spices to your kitchen.
-
S L I C K: Sizzling Erotica Round-Up
Life moves fast. Time is a warp. It’s possible that you missed some of these tension-filled erotic S L I C K moments. Join A+ so you can read the slow, tight tension — right before the frenzy — that I love to revisit.
-
Songs for Your Gay Pain: A Playlist for Leaning into the Longing
As a known homosexual, my two greatest skills are yearning and making playlists.
-
Queer Tarotscopes for Aquarius Season 2021: It’s Time to Find Your North Star
After such a tumultuous, complicated, impossible year, the Star feels like it’s an opportunity for something bigger than individual, personal healing. We are being called to reimagine the collective, to consider what our larger future entails, to not be afraid to dream big and reconsider all of the broken things that have been revealed. What is really possible, not just for us but for all?
-
Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: March’s Poetry Is Not a Luxury
One of the biggest lessons of Audre Lorde’s work is the strength of coalitional politics. I need a movement that can hold my anger. I need a movement that can hold my contradictions. I shouldn’t have to qualify my rage when speaking out about injustice.
-
Friday Open Threads Are Back, Come On In & Say Hi
You said you missed the Friday Open Threads, so we’re bringing them back!
-
Four Transracial Asian Adoptees on Body, Place, Family, and Race
I believe my queerness makes my Asian-ness and my adoptee-ness stronger. I am more myself when I hold all these truths together than when I try to compartmentalize them.
-
Creative Interviewing Creatives: Chani Nicholas on Cosmic Playlists, the Election, and Activism
Chani Nicholas, Canadian-born Astrologer and New York Times best selling author of You Were Born For This: Astrology for Radical Acceptance, chats with Jackie about her Spotify Cosmic Playlists, healing justice and much more.
-
Democratic Debate #7: Only 19 Days Left Until the Iowa Caucus
With polling showing four candidates — Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren — within five points of each other in Iowa, last night’s debate offered candidates their last, best shot at separating themselves from the pack.
-
In the Current Uprising for Black Lives, the WNBA Refuses to Play it Safe
When the WNBA asks the public to “say her name,” they mean Black trans women, too.
-
Kate McKinnon’s Golden Globes Tribute to Ellen Highlights How Far We’ve Come and How Far We Have Left to Go
Did you know there are people who had no idea Kate McKinnon is even gay??
-
What Songs From Gay TV Episodes Make You Cry in Public?
“I used to joke that it’s the song I want to get married to. And maybe I’m not joking.”
-
Extra! Extra!: The US’s COVID-19 Cases Peak as Stimulus Package Passes; Here’s All That Explained
This is the week that the US finally reached the top of the global rankings in terms of number of confirmed cases; Congress just passed a stimulus package the likes of which, I truly believe, have not been seen in a long, long time, if ever. There is a much, much bigger world that is getting hit with COVID-19 right now, and I definitely want to turn to that. But there’s a lot to say in the US alone right now.
-
Roundtable: The Undocumented Activists Organizing a Strike and Building a New World
In a country that hates immigrants, every day immigrants are on the front line of imagining and enacting another world: One where they can safely live with basic dignity, respect, and protection.