Welcome to the pop culture fix, your weekly round-up of news stories so important that the world could very well change by the time you finish reading this post. Literally almost everything is possible at this point.

+ Ed Weeks and Mindy Kaling have teamed up to write a comedy about a lesbian couple in Kansas: “The untitled single-camera comedy centers on liberal lesbian couple Laurel and Marisa who move with their teenage son to Laurel’s conservative hometown in Kansas to find that their assumptions about Middle America might just be wrong.” If they don’t title it “Surrender Dorothy” then I’m gonna through a fit in the candy aisle.

+ Ellen DeGeneres is on the cover of OUT Magazine’s OUT 100 issue. She talks about her career, being nice, and coming out in 1997:

Before this show, I had a lot of insecurity,” DeGeneres says. “I wasn’t sure if I was going to work again, and although I was out, I was still trying to alter myself — not dressing the way I wanted to dress or wearing my hair the way I wanted to. I slowly gained the confidence to be authentic, and what I’ve learned about other people is that they strive to be authentic, too. So whether they fully support me, love my lifestyle, or love that I’m married to a woman, I think they like that authenticity, and they’re drawn to it.”

+ Samantha Fox, who I wrote a singificant number of words about in 2009, says coming out in 2003 was very scary: “For a long time I was a bit scared, because I did feel maybe—I’ve got of male fans, but since being a singer, I’ve got a lot of female fans, too—but I was scared that I may lose that fanbase.”

+ Maybe you didn’t have a TON of stuff in common with your ex-girlfriend but you do have one thing in common with your next girlfriend, Anna Kendrick: you both want a lesbian love scene in Pitch Perfect 3. I hope she’s also on board with making Pitch Perfect 3 not a racist trash pile like Pitch perfect 2! Also by the way all of Anna Kendrick’s friends are gay.

Also:

+ Watermelon Woman to Moonlight: Twenty Years of Black LGBTQ Indie Films

+ Shay Mitchell has released an emotional “Farewell Love Letter” to Pretty Little Liars, which she recorded after the series wrapped filming its final scene.

+ Superqueero Roundup: Canonically Queer

+ “Becoming More Visible,” a documentary about four trans teens in New York coming into their own, premieres in NYC on November 11th.

+ Beth Ditto’s second collection is a vibrant assault on the senses

+ Love & Hip Hop Deserves More Respect for How It Portrays Queer Sexuality

+ The best celebrity halloween costumes of 2016

+ Chef Renee Blackman is Bringing LGBT Visibility to Chopped.

+ Raven-Symone is leaving The View to work on developing a That’s So Ravel spin-off.

+ Don’t Call Me Son Combines a Queer, Trans Family Drama

+ Our Favorite Gender-Minority Stories in TV and Literature

+ Lindsay Lohan is debuting a new accent. Yup.

+ Stoked for Leah Remini’s “Scientology And The Aftermath” documentary