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A bookstore employee who's crushing on her hot, older boss, finally tells her how she feels (and finds out how her boss feels, too)! "Our moans were call and response, our bodies constellations."

Tiara Dee

Gigi, a 35 year old Black woman wearing a pink pantsuit, with a gray-flecked afro, kisses Indigo, a younger, shorter, Black woman in her early 20's with dark brown skin, golden-brown waist-length braids. They kiss as bossa nova music, indicated by illustrated floating music notes, plays in the background.

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Personal Essays

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I Am Not Lorelai Gilmore But I Also Kind of Am

“Suddenly I was pregnant. And then I was a dropout. And then I was a single mother. I had no…

Kristen Arnett

Sep 25, 2024

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The Eras of My Bisexuality

She was the straight, white, Christian girl who was so picture perfect no one could…

Em Win

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Jan 8, 2024

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Shame as a Black, Autistic Queer Elder

“Toward the end of our stay in Mississippi, a 24-hour crisis line started up. I…

Gloria Jackson-Nefertiti

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Dec 31, 2023

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Apparently, Shame Tastes Like My Cunt

“The other partners I had throughout much of my time in sex work were uncomfortable…

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Dec 30, 2023

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The Eras of My Bisexuality

She was the straight, white, Christian girl who was so picture perfect no one could dislike her.

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Jan 8, 2024

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Shame as a Black, Autistic Queer Elder

“Toward the end of our stay in Mississippi, a 24-hour crisis line started up. I called them almost every weeknight.”

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Dec 31, 2023

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Apparently, Shame Tastes Like My Cunt

“The other partners I had throughout much of my time in sex work were uncomfortable at best and shaming at worst. They were jealous and confused. ‘How can you interact…

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Dec 30, 2023

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Finding Magic After a Difficult Year

It’s easy to get overwhelmed by crashing Towers and painful Deaths, the big changes and shifts within and around us, the endings and releasings and restructurings. But even when we aren’t sure what the fruits of our labors will be just yet, that doesn’t mean that nothing is happening. Sometimes we shift and change in the darkest spaces, hidden from the world and even ourselves, slowly adapting until we are transformed from within.

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Dec 16, 2020

Finding Magic After a Difficult Year

It’s easy to get overwhelmed by crashing Towers and painful Deaths, the big changes and shifts within and around us, the endings and releasings and restructurings. But even when we aren’t sure what the fruits of our labors will be just yet, that doesn’t mean that nothing is happening. Sometimes we shift and change in the darkest spaces, hidden from the world and even ourselves, slowly adapting until we are transformed from within.

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Tell Us Your Dreams

Have a dream you want interpreted or a question for the tarot?

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Good Boys

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How Can I Convince My Girlfriend To Accept Her Shot at Financial Freedom?

Your parents can help your girlfriend achieve some financial freedom, but she super doesn't see it that way. Plus, a…

the team

Nov 8, 2024

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Nico

Jun 29, 2022

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A+ Inbox LIVE! #22: I Hate That So Much!

Laneia

Jul 18, 2017

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Dykes Discuss Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Black Bag’

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How Should We Deal with My Fiancé’s Trumpy Dad on Our Wedding Day?

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Out the Movies: ‘Julia’ (1977) Wants Us To Do the Right Thing

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Letter From the Editors: We Want To Hear From You

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How Should We Deal with My Fiancé’s Trumpy Dad on Our Wedding Day?

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Out the Movies: ‘Julia’ (1977) Wants Us To Do the Right Thing

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Letter From the Editors: We Want To Hear From You

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Personal Essays

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I Am Not Lorelai Gilmore But I Also Kind of Am

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The Eras of My Bisexuality

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Shame as a Black, Autistic Queer Elder

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Apparently, Shame Tastes Like My Cunt

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The Eras of My Bisexuality

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Shame as a Black, Autistic Queer Elder

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Apparently, Shame Tastes Like My Cunt

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Cowboy Clairvoiant

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Tell Us Your Dreams

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A+ Inbox LIVE! #22: I Hate That So Much!

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Things I’ve Never Asked

Dykes Discuss Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Black Bag’

How Should We Deal with My Fiancé’s Trumpy Dad on Our Wedding Day?

Out the Movies: ‘Julia’ (1977) Wants Us To Do the Right Thing

Letter From the Editors: We Want To Hear From You

Dykes Discuss ‘The White Lotus’ Season Three

Interview with my Ex

I Confronted My Girlfriend About Cheating On Me, She Responded By Coming Out as Poly

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