Roxane Gay

also.also.also

link roundup

society + culture

Also.Also.Also: Beyoncé Sent Roxane Gay an Ivy Park Box, Black Bisexual Nerds the Time Has Arrived!

How Much Bisexual Energy Do You Radiate? It’s time to find out! Also: searching for the “Ethereal Bisexual” woman in Barack Obama’s memoir, Cara Delevingne is now co-owner of a…

Carmen Phillips —

Nov 19, 2020

also.also.also

Debbie Millman

society + culture

Also.Also.Also: Your Hot Queer Aunts Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman Are Spinning Stevie Nicks Too

Angelica Ross being interviewed by Crissle in a flurry of Black queer and trans brilliance, how to make serious sense of yesterday’s SCOTUS push to re-evaluate gay marriage, could the…

Carmen Phillips —

Oct 6, 2020

also.also.also

link roundup

society + culture

Also.Also.Also: I Can’t Believe Roxane Gay Invented Leather Jackets for This Rihanna Interview

Katie Sowers is the first lesbian to coach in a Super Bowl, San Francisco Pride bans corporations and cops from this year’s parade, and more mid-week reading!

Carmen Phillips —

Jan 21, 2020

Debbie Millman

love is sometimes not a lie

celebrities (vapid fluff)

Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman Are ENGAGED! Love Is Indeed Not a Lie!

Continuing to prove that the best way to court a writer is by offering up your own poetry, Debbie Millman chronicled their engagement via an Instagram rhyming carousel you may…

Carmen Phillips —

Nov 13, 2019

link roundup

Roxane Gay

society + culture

Sunday Funday Is Gay for Roxane Gay’s Book Club

International Nonbinary Day selfies, remembering the gay communes of the ’80s, lesbian period dramas, gay music, and more!

Ari —

Jul 21, 2019

Debbie Millman

love is sometimes not a lie

celebrities (vapid fluff)

Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman Are Girlfriends, Invite Us to Consider Love Might Not Be a Lie???

“Every day I tell myself that I deserve to be happy, I deserve to be loved, I deserve to have a hot girlfriend.”

Carmen Phillips —

Jun 18, 2019

black lives matter

janet mock

politics + activism

15 Activists to Follow Right Now for Some Much-Needed Hope and Empowerment

I don’t scroll mindlessly through Twitter and Facebook anymore. What I do instead is engage with the women activists who are leading our way in the battle through the darkness.

Heather Hogan —

Oct 3, 2018

link roundup

Roxane Gay

society + culture

Sunday Funday Is Celebrating Roxane Gay and Black Panther Forever

Interviews with cast of Pose, queer women in World War II, Janelle Monáe of course, and coming out because you’re in love!

Ari —

Jul 22, 2018

daniel mallory ortberg

Lists/Top 10s

book lists

65 Queer and Feminist Books To Read In 2018

Your guide to 2018’s queer and feminist books.

Ryan Yates —

Jan 2, 2018

2017 end-of-year-list

end-of-year-list

book lists

The Top 10 Queer and Feminist Books of 2017

2017 has been pretty awesome for a ton of new queer and/or feminist things to read! Here are some of the best.

Ryan Yates —

Dec 18, 2017

#blacklivesmatter

dee rees

pop culture fix

Black LGBT Women Represent on The Root’s 100 Most Influential People List

When I look at this list, I’m fortified knowing that increasingly we are not being asked to choose between our blackness and our queerness as the movement moves forward. We…

Carmen Phillips —

Sep 20, 2017

memoir

nonfiction

lgbt book reviews

A Lifetime of Aftermath: Roxane Gay’s “Hunger” Dares You Not to Look Away

In a time when the word “healing” feels thinner than ever, affixed as it is to too many pictures of skinny, silhouetted yogis on beaches, we need to reacquaint ourselves…

Aisha —

Jun 23, 2017