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New Book "Ask A Queer Chick" Offers Honest Advice on Family, Sex, and Identity

In a readable, empathetic, and sometimes even a little bit inspiring book, Lindsay King-Miller offers advice to queer women and the people who love them.  Read more »

How Has Transgender Activism Changed in the Past Decade?

10 questions for Monica Roberts on the 10th anniversary of TransGriot's creation.   Read more »

Janese Talton-Jackson's Murder Reminds Me That Entitlement Kills

The 29-year-old mother was murdered after she rebuffed a stranger's advances in a bar. That tragic story reminds me how often people feel entitled to my body. Even friends sometimes deny my selfhood by saying they wish I wasn't a lesbian, so they could date me.  Read more »

Popaganda Episode: Writing About Race

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A New Website Helps Bystanders Support Victims of Online Harassment

One in four young women have been stalked online. Now, Hollaback is trying to make the internet safer.  Read more »

Why "Whiteness History Month" Is a Good Idea

White people need to think about and interrogate race—that's not called “reverse racism,” that's called paying attention.  Read more »

Ask Bear: Do I Have to Be Friends With People I Disagree With Politically?

Nope, says Bear. Save your energy for the people who nourish you. Read more »

Oh Joy Sex Toy: The Eva Vibe

In a deliciously NSFW comic, artist Erika Moen reviews an adorable new vibrator.  Read more »

Kelly Sue DeConnick Talks "Bitch Planet" and "Pretty Deadly"

In her newest series, writer Kelly Sue DeConnick has brought vital critique of incarceration and our justice system to the vibrant pop culture world of comics. She talks with us about writing imaginative, feminist comics.  Read more »

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Oh Joy Sex Toy: How I Realized I'm Asexual

Artist Kiku H shares her personal experiences learning what it means to be asexual. Read more »

Know & Tell: The Literary Renaissance of Trans Women Writers

For so long, the people who wrote about us were not us. Finally, that is beginning to change. Read more »

Why You Should Pay for Porn

If you’re a progressive middle-class individual, chances are you think about where your food comes from. Maybe you try to buy shoes that are... Read more »

It's Time to End the Long History of Feminism Failing Transgender Women

The marginalization of transgender women in feminism is not new, but the decades-long debate has taken on new dimension thanks to social media and the ease of finding strangers’ personal information online. Read more »