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Butch Please: A Letter to Baby Butches

Kate — Sat, 18 May 2013 01:00:53 +0000

I have every faith in you, baby butch. I know you will be careful with this word and its legacy. It looks like a badge but it feels like a battleaxe, and I need you to know that it’s five times as difficult to earn and ten million times more dangerous.

The Comment Awards Are Feeling Campy

carrie — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:30:00 +0000

Cyborgs, Adam Lambert, camp dreams and more!

Five Solo Crash Pad Scenes For Masturbation Month

Ali — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:00:47 +0000

I like to call this meta-masturbation. Touch yourself to scenes of people touching themselves. Happy Masturbation Month!

Liberty Lit #20: Remember Library Lesbianism

Carolyn — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:30:50 +0000

An excerpt from Michelle Tea's new novel, chicken lit is the new chick lit, library lesbianism, sexism in publishing and more.

How Sailor Moon Made Me A Feminist: An Ode to Magical Girl Shows

Rose — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:00:59 +0000

Maybe it's the influence of Sailor Moon that is part of what made me a feminist, someone who didn't think that being a girl was a weakness but was, in fact, a special kind of power.

Things I Read That I Love #76: Astro-Ride!

riese — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:00:26 +0000

Topics include the Khmer Rogue, crisis pregnancy centers + race-baiting, SamRo, coffee, Little House on the Prairie, grief, growing up gay and Kevyn Aucoin!

Date With A Google Glasshole: Cyborg Dating 101, A Report From The Field

taylor — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:00:21 +0000

A true, first-hand account of a real-life ladydate with a real-life Glasshole. Let's just say that the phrase "breakup-inducing cyborg face device" got tossed around.

You Can Take It With You: Blood Orange and Wheat Berry Salad

Laura — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:00:49 +0000

Both rule-following and improvisation have their place in this post. First course: a wheat berry salad by the book. Followed by: my own take on the recipe.

Team Pick: Buycott Helps You Save The World and Support Pro-Gay Companies While You Shop

Cara — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00:30 +0000

Because I'm perpetually spending my last dollar and I want to know exactly where it goes.

Identity Theft: A Trans* Intersex Woman On Traumas and Surgery

A. S. — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:00:14 +0000

"It's unfortunate, unfair and illogical that intersex people get assigned a gender and a sex and are expected to either stick with them or fix someone else's mistake with expensive, risky surgery on their genitals."

Why Grey's Anatomy's New Story Arc Is A Pretty Big Deal

fonseca — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:00:00 +0000

Because lesbian and bisexual characters now have longer shelf lives, network TV is beginning to go beyond the same trope-tastic story arcs.

Brittani's Video Party: The Return of Television

Brittani — Thu, 16 May 2013 17:00:00 +0000

DeAnne Smith on the teevee, Arrested Development, Brooklyn 99, and gas station karaoke party it up.