Keisha Jenkins, 22-Year-Old Black Trans Woman, Murdered in Philadelphia
Keisha Jenkins is at least the 20th trans woman murdered in the US this year, and nearly all of them have been Black and/or Latinx.
Keisha Jenkins is at least the 20th trans woman murdered in the US this year, and nearly all of them have been Black and/or Latinx.
“I locked myself in the bathroom because she kept telling me I wasn’t cleaning the toilet the right way”
Ask and ye shall receive! Laura & Luna is back for this issue and the rest of it is a doozy, too! Get in here!
A Theory of Small Earthquakes is a novel about bisexuality, family, and secrets, with a narrative that’s quite different from the typical work of women’s fiction.
Amber Rose’s Slutwalk truly embraced and celebrated the duality of women’s lives in the modern world, and it was a radically inclusive event — one with an explicit policy against all forms of oppressive language and behavior as well as an explicit intent to include, lift up, and acknowledge the unique and compounded struggles of trans women, women of color, queer women, poor women, and differently abled women.
Enter at your own risk! Things are about to get adorable.
Educational publisher McGraw-Hill admits to making a mistake in their textbook about slavery, Hope Solo will face domestic violence charges again, a new study finds more LGB people are insured with the Affordable Care Act and more news stories.
Hiking amidst fears of spiders the size of fists and also, separately, golf clubs.
LGBTQ readers so rarely get queer-normative spaces, and so to have an entire book full of comics where people casually use “they” or “xe” pronouns, where women make offhand mentions of their girlfriends and where trans people can just matter-of-factly be trans, is just wonderful.
This week on “Faking It,” Amy and Karma’s plan to give up lying about stuff gets foiled when Amy’s Mom needs them to be a lesbian couple again for just a minute.
Figure out what’s supposed to be in your fridge, make a soy candle, create your own floor plan, wear your dark lipsticks that you never use, get to know some plants and more!
We’re here, we’re queer, we’re getting an IUD.
Wish you were hanging out with Brittani Nichols? Yeah, join the club. Until then, we can follow her around through a day in her life through the lens of a camera!
Now I start over, and rebuild, and confront fear and learn to drive alone and figure out how to secure Eli in the loft so I can still snuggle with him at night. Now I have to hang the art I’ve collected from friends over the years, find a place for my autographed Eileen Myles books, and learn to do yoga. Now I need to meet all the versions of myself hiding in this city and make friends with every single one of them.
Apple recipes for everyone, with cheddar, caramel, blackberries, beer and more!
Weddings dresses with a gay twist, the Pope dissing Kim Davis, communicating with beavers but for real and not like a joke about lesbians, Fergus the dog going home again, and more!
A smutty comic, top/bottom/switch definitions, everybody’s still looking for “lesbian” porn, travelling with sex toys and more!
From task management to mind mapping to white noise, these are the apps you need to help you take over the world! Or, you know, just meet your deadlines and get your homework done.
“Mother, I have so many secrets.”
Dealbreakers, driving and Demi Lovato and that bird.