the speakeasy

album review

the speakeasy

music

Vivek Shraya’s New Album “Part-Time Woman” Is a Binary-Breaking Love Letter

Shraya’s lyrics tease apart the ways in which trans girls’ emotional lives are drawings rendered in chiaroscuro, the play of light and shadow: The power and relief of discovering one’s…

Kai Cheng —

Jul 19, 2017

foolish child

Saturday Morning Cartoons

webcomics

Foolish Child #27: Foolish Nonya

Boy? Girl? BOY OR GIRL?

Dickens —

Jul 19, 2017

fullscreen

LGBT women's health

politics + activism

Trumpcare Is an Attack on Trans People of Color. Let’s Fight Like Hell Against It.

Defeating this bill is a matter of life and death to the transgender, gender non-conforming and intersex people of color who depend on Medicaid to survive.

Neesha Powell-Twagirumukiza —

Jul 14, 2017

curated

Lists/Top 10s

music

14 Music Videos That Confirmed My Sexuality

“Soft butches everywhere? I don’t know what your heaven looks like, but this is mine.”

A. Tony Jerome —

Jul 13, 2017

freeform

the bold type

tv reviews

“The Bold Type” Gives Us a Muslim Lesbian and Unapologetic Feel-Good Feminism

Scarlet isn’t interested in acquitting itself to any man. And as the magazine repeatedly rejects the reductive assumption that sex and feminism and fashion and politics can’t coexist, so does…

Heather Hogan —

Jul 12, 2017

plus sized fashion

Style Thief

queer fashion

Style Thief: How to Dress Like Jazzmyne Robbins

“Whether it’s metallic details, leather-y looks, or fabric that’s slashed or bound together with laces, Robbins often has a spectacular Mad Max: Thunderdome-type thing goin’ on. Hot.”

Nora —

Jul 10, 2017

bisexuality

claws

tv reviews

“Claws” Features a Butch Lesbian, a Bisexual Crime Boss and a Chance to Stop Talking About “Breaking Bad”

Claws is not Breaking Bad. Breaking Bad is not Breaking Bad if Walter White isn’t a white man cloaked in respectability. You share that narrative through the eyes of a…

Natalie —

Jul 6, 2017

gabby rivera

getting in bed with kristin

af+

VIDEO! Getting In Bed with Gabby Rivera: Summer Body Love

I went all the way to New York to get in bed with Gabby Rivera last week, and we talked all about body image, summertime feelings, and America Chavez. It…

Kristin —

Jul 6, 2017

qpoc

the speakeasy

playlists

Playlist: Fuck Independence Day, Celebrate Black Women Instead

I will not celebrate a country in which 11 of the 14 trans people of color murdered this year have been black women. I will not celebrate a country currently…

Reneice Charles —

Jul 4, 2017

beyonce

gloria carter

music

Gloria Carter, Blue Ivy’s Grandma, Comes Out As a Lesbian on Jay Z’s “4:44”

Beyoncé’s husband released a new album, but what I’m excited about is the track titled “Smile” where his mother, Gloria Carter, comes out as a lesbian.

Ari —

Jun 30, 2017

islam

queer visibility

holigays

Celebrating Queer Muslim Joy with #PrEIDe

As millions of people lined busy streets in gayborhoods across the world for Pride weekend, 1.7 billion people began celebrating Eid al-Fitr  —  where after a long hot month of…

Mahdia Lynn —

Jun 29, 2017

brown girls

the speakeasy

tv reviews

“Brown Girls” Shows Women of Color Coming of Age in a Way We Never Get to See on TV

Hollywood’s reluctance to tell the stories of brown girls has always been rooted in — well, racism; but more precisely— the myth that white stories are neutral and, as such,…

Natalie —

Jun 29, 2017