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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Flirting For Fun

anon — Sun, 19 May 2013 18:40:24 +0000

This week on NSFW Sunday: how to flirt, how to spank, how to have a lesbian affair if you live in the 1920s and more.

Sunday Funday Is Comin' Out Round the Mountain

Carmen — Sun, 19 May 2013 18:00:11 +0000

Get it? Coming out? Ugh.

Zoe Saldana Bisexual: Responds With Ellipses When Asked About Prior Relationships With Women

riese — Sat, 18 May 2013 23:38:36 +0000

"Promise me one thing — if you choose to [print the question "have you had a relationship with another woman?"] just put three dots as my response. That's it."

Sorry, Texas, But Letting Student Groups Discriminate Is Not the Same As "Religious Freedom"

Rose — Sat, 18 May 2013 18:00:30 +0000

To your average conservative legislator, it may seem like a good idea to let anti-gay religious or political groups choose not to have members who don't reflect their "values." But when it involves having students pay for their own discrimination, it's not so simple.

Tech Spring Cleaning Part 3: Actually Literally Cleaning Your Tech

Ali — Sat, 18 May 2013 14:00:49 +0000

There are only two steps, to be completed on days of your choosing: 1. obtain the following materials and 2. use them on your technology. Ready. Set. Go.

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 Rouge, 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.