“I was going to do a story about trans women arming themselves? And all the edits we got back were like, ‘Can your characters look directly at the reader and quote trans murder statistics from last year?'”
If you’ve got 15-20 minutes to tell me how and why you travel and where you go and what you do there and how you feel about it on a few different levels, it would be so great. Note: this is not the same travel survey we told you about last week!
It’s Carmen’s first full day as your new Associate Editor! She didn’t want it to end without saying Hi to all of you!
These women aren’t ultimately just stealing the money. They’re stealing back the ability to control their own lives. To get in at least one solid kick against the rancid, putrid system that forced their backs against the wall in the first place.
Happy Thanksgiving from Team Super! Alex, Kara, Lena, and Nia gather around and debate politics, as is the Thanksgiving tradition.
If you want to host a Cozy Holigay Meet-Up, here’s what to do.
I hadn’t experienced transphobic violence in medicalized form before. But I’d experienced it in many others: in punches and pushes, through threats with weapons, or by being run off the road by cars while I was on foot.
“I’d actually never even seen a woman in a blazer before. Like a men’s cut blazer. It really was like Fun Home. Inside I really did feel like I KNOW YOU!”
Michelle Obama’s a true ally, Sue Bird’s joining the NBA, Brandi Carlile learns that Pluto isn’t a planet anymore, a rap for RBG and more!
This week, the internet got obsessed with pubic hair. Also: how to be more dominant in bed, sexts to send when you’re out of ideas, the hot new trend of later-in-life lesbianism and more.
“I share all this because I feel like everyone I know is struggling to keep it together lately, to have-it-all or to be-everything-to-everyone or to fight-the-good-fight.”
Shhhhsh-sh-sh. I have one minute left.
All American tackles internalized homphobia, Charmed gives Mel a devastating choice, Eleanor Shellstrop is horny even when she’s getting dragged into hell, AU! Charlie returns to Supernatural, Beth and Valencia are leaving Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and more!
Let’s have a check in about fall TV!
“It’s the urgency of being a girl, in the broadest sense of that admittedly binary term, of being a marginalized person and knowing in your heart that you have the power to change your world.”
“My mom watched The L Word before I did, so really this must be her fault.”
Blobs explore what getting dressed feels like.
What impresses me most about The Bisexual isn’t that it skewers The Discourse, but that it ignores it completely in favor of having an actual conversation.
Life is a roleplaying game and the roleplaying game is life.
“I was unwilling to buy a binder. It seemed like a declaration, the kind I was nowhere near ready to make yet. But for that winter, I had the bag.”