Wonder Women

“I want people to feel like they have showered after they listen to my music, for it to be a cathartic and cleansing sort of experience.”

It was clear that I needed this community if I was going to learn how to skate.

This is the time to redesign our lives. There is no right way to practice self-care.

Karyn Blanco opens up about her music, “The Circle,” and how she wants people to really see her. 

“I was bullied mercilessly in high school for expressing myself and being an outspoken feminist. If you are experiencing that, just know that high school is not your peak—you will go on to do amazing, fulfilling things after the hell that is our educational system. Your bullies ain’t sh*t!”

“There’s something in me that I really need to say. And I’m just going to keep working until I say it.”  

I want to be both things.

Seeing yourself in someone else can serve as a living affirmation.

In the words of Audre Lorde, “Without community, there is no liberation.”

FROM THE ARCHIVES: I plan my funeral often.

“The Archives shall be involved in the political struggles of all Lesbians.”

“Race and sexuality are inextricably linked.”

“The cop hit me, and I hit him back. The cops got what they gave.”  

The ones who were accepted the least chose to accept me the most.

For forty minutes I was able to forget New York’s shelter-in-place order and the dim glow of my own apartment’s overhead lighting.

“It’s hard to explain to somebody how bad it can be unless you’re seeing it firsthand.”

“Crush Bar is an ordinary bar with an extraordinary community.”

In a time of such uncertainty, Koones has found a way to keep Babetown in business, keep the community fed, and keep being the culinary badass she is. 

“We’re not stopping until we absolutely feel that people are ready and they don’t need us anymore.”  

In strange and dark times, Grace Millo turns to music. 

To all 10 of these lesbian pioneers, we salute you!

“It’s not just humbling. It’s a feeling of being part of something huge and vast and magnificent and vibrant and changing and different every day.”  

I was in the middle of reading the trendiest lesbian book of 2020, “In The Dream House” by Carmen Maria Machado, when I came across an *alleged* fact about Eleanor Roosevelt […]

Let’s give it up for the beautiful, badass Mujeres that paved the way.

You don’t even have to take off your pajamas.

Self help meets memoir. Party girl meets wise sage. Beauty meets reality. Zara Barrie is the cool older sister you wish you had.

One of our favorite queer podcasts has big plans.

Despite the challenges facing them at work and in the world, these four women have made incredible strides.

This Women’s History Month, we remember Isadora Duncan.

To my knowledge, my mother has never read Emily Dickinson, but back then, when it came to crafting a response, she taught me to “tell the truth but tell it slant.”

Here’s to you, ladies — we wouldn’t be here without you.

“Getting to play Tara is one of the things I am most proud of.”

Unfollow the accounts that cause you negative emotions like anger, jealousy, or boredom and instead follow accounts that make you feel connected, inspired, and calm.

What a truly epic lesbian year it has been.

Producer, activist, and model Jazzmyne Jay is a queer rebel in the age of influence. — Interview by Mandie Williams. Photography by Courteney Morris.

As the first Black woman to lead NYC’s critically important Anti Violence Project, Beverly Tillery opts for a grass roots approach to affecting social change. With violence against the queer community on the rise, her work is more important than ever before.