Relationships

Open-Minded: Rachel Krantz on Nonmonogamy as a Labor of Love

Author photo of Rachel Krantz, a white woman with long curly brown hair and a blue t shirt. Next to her is the cover of her book, Open.
by Andi Zeisler
April 1, 2022 at 11:03am
Journalist Rachel Krantz, a founding editor of Bustle, was 27 when she met Adam, a professor who encouraged her curiosity about nonmonogamy and dominant/submissive dynamics. What happened next is detailed in Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy (2022, Harmony). 
A black-and-white photograph of bell hooks, a Black woman wearing a scarf and earrings, looking directly into the camera with a soft smile.

Remembering bell hooks in Her Own Words

by Bitch HQ
December 15, 2021 at 2:36pm
Bitch interviewed the legendary feminist scholar bell hooks in our Winter 2000 issue. Read more »
Jamal Jordan, a brown-skinned Black man with short locs, leans back against the wall while wearing a magenta and purple-striped shirt

Romantic Resilience: Jamal Jordan Captures the Beauty of Queer Love in Color

by Josie Pickens
June 8, 2021 at 11:40am
This book is offering a unique gift to the world, one that presents a new story with new definitions and new possibilities. Read more »
Lena Waithe as Denise and Naomi Ackie as Alicia, two queer Black women sitting on the bed together, in Master of None

Can “Master of None” Survive Aziz Ansari’s Scandal? We Still Don’t Know.

by Nicole Froio
May 28, 2021 at 3:34pm
Master of None lost one of its most compelling components: unflinching emotional honesty. Read more »
Larissa Pham, an Asian, pensive woman wears wire rim glasses in front of greenery

Beautiful Suffering: “Pop Song” Bears Witness to the Power of Different Loves

by Oliver Haug
May 4, 2021 at 11:25am
Maybe it’s human instinct to want to capture our emotions, to bottle and preserve them for others to see. Read more »
Love In Color, a book cover, features an illustration of a brown-skinned man and a brown-skinned woman appearing to kiss

“Love in Color” Modernizes the Myths We Love to Hate

by Gloria Oladipo
April 23, 2021 at 12:25pm
Rather than denote these tales as relics of the past, she communicates the value of these myths, stories retold for centuries that reveal all the things that love can be. Read more »
Sandra Oh plays Cristina Yang, an Asian American woman with curly black hair and wearing scrubs, stands beside Ellen Pompeo playing Meredith Grey, a white woman also wearing scrubs in Grey's Anatomy

You Are the Sun: Being Single Is No Longer a Social Sob Story

by Aditi Juneja
March 29, 2021 at 1:39pm
Partnership is not a prize to be won or a goal to be achieved. Read more »
a thin white person, a fat white person, and a brown-skinned Black person sit together on a patio, drinking beers in green bottles and laughing

Love Sick: It’s Time to Uncouple Care Work from Romantic Love

by Oliver Haug
February 10, 2021 at 11:39am
The pandemic has laid bare the American assumption that romantic relationships provide all the care we need. Read more »
a transfeminine nonbinary person and transmasculine gender-nonconforming person looking at a phone

You’ve Got a Friend in Trusty, Dusty Online Advice Forums

by s.e. smith
January 21, 2021 at 12:31pm
There’s something entertaining but also affirming in reading about someone else’s problems, especially when they’re real doozies. Read more »
Martin Shkreli, a white man in a green jumpsuit, embraces Christie Smythe, a white woman with brown hair

Now Is Really Not the Time for Your Martin Shkreli Love Story

by Shannon Weber
December 23, 2020 at 1:44pm
Who are the folks sympathizing with Christie Smythe’s absurd display of wealthy white lady privilege? Read more »
a stone statue depicts a couple not getting along

Unraveling the Tragedy of Heterosexuality

by Fiona Bell
September 1, 2020 at 9:03am
Mutual dislike and violence are not an unfortunate bug in the heteropatriarchal system; they’re fundamental to it. Read more »

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