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This is the Summer of Lesbian Web Series

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Remembering the Black Women Killed By Police

We're outraged by the killing of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old who was shot six times by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.  Read more »

Oh Joy Sex Toy: Erotic Comics

Oh Joy Sex Toy is a weekly comics series that graphically explores sex and sexuality. This week, artist Jess Fink explains why she loves to read and draw sexy comics.... Read more »

Rewriting the Rules with Author Elissa Washuta

Elissa Washuta is white and Native, bipolar, and lost her virginity to rape. Her first book, My Body is a Book of Rules, is a modern coming-of-age memoir that reaches into these tangles of the body and mind through American pop... Read more »

Oh Joy Sex Toy: Writing a Sex List

Oh Joy Sex Toy is a weekly comics series that graphically explores sex and sexuality. This week, artist Terry Blas explains how a simple sheet of paper can help make... Read more »

The NFL's Domestic Violence Problem

It’s difficult to watch the grainy video of Janay Palmer without getting a knot in the pit of your stomach. A viral video of a football player lugging his unconscious fiancé around like a garbage bag was seen by millions of Americans,... Read more »

It’s Not Me, It’s You: The Absent Dialogue around Fat Women’s Sexuality

It’s simply assumed that fat women are not worthy of having anybody “woo” us or walk down the street holding our hands. Read more »

Let's Get Digital: The prejudices—and the potential—of gaming and erotic roleplaying

Illustrations by Amy Martin Ask any World of Warcraft player about “Goldshire” and you’ll likely hear more than a little embarrassed giggling. The small town just outside the human capital of Stormwind is a known hotbed of ERP—shorthand for erotic roleplaying—derided... Read more »

The Madame Butterfly Effect: Tracing the History of a Fetish

The perception of sexualized Asian women was informed by a long tradition of Western male writing. Read more »

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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 »

"Moonlight" is an Essential Work of Art for the Current Political Moment

Moonlight displays the kind of empathy and humanity that we desperately need right now. 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 »