Rose Troche rightfully slaps us around at Q-Me-Con

This weekend was Q-Me Con’s 3rd annual huzzah, and let me tell you guys, it was one hell of a juicy fete. Queer women media-makers from all over the world converged on Ripley Greer Studios in Midtown Manhattan for a full day of workshops, panels, seminars, and a truly hard rock keynote address from perhaps [...]

This not just in… note from the Editor

Hey everyone, California’s Supreme Court overturned the ban on gay marriage. This is a happy time for all of us in the queer community. We should be in the streets cheering (some of us are.)I’m sure that by now you’ve all been googling the articles and have the facts and figures memorized and embroidered on [...]

In Bed With J. D. Bauchery by Anna Romer. 5.15.08 pics courtesy of J.D. Bauchery

ā€œI like to fuck and am not afraid to say it.ā€
So reads J. D. Bauchery’s profile blurb where she serves as porn reviewer and sex advice columnist on HotMoviesForHer.com. She’s not lying, kids.

The Radical Herstory of Mothers Day by Elizabeth Koke 5/9/08

Inspired by Grace Moon’s latest post on the upcoming holiday, I thought I would share a little historical factoidĀ with you. The celebration of Mothers Day in the United States began in 1870, organized by social activist Julia Ward Howe.Ā  Julia, having witnessed the terrible effects of the civil war, called for mother’s day to unite [...]

Blip on the Radar

Consider this my coming out.
I’m straight.
That’s right, I’m penis-loving-hairy-man worshiper. Although, more accurately, I’m lover of skinny-tall-tech-geek boys who likely have no chin pubes.
And yet, I have to sometimes wonder why I’m not a lesbian. It was just the other day that a friend asked me to explain “my type” to them, and I responded, [...]

The Awkward Definition of Potential: An Interview with Ariel Schrag

Ariel Schrag is a truth-seeking guided missile. Her comic novels, Awkward, Definition and Likewise, chronicle her 9th, 10th, and 11th grade years respectively, and she wrote and distributed them while she was still in high school — that’s some serious chutzpah. Hard for me to even imagine finding the guts; not in high school, [...]

In Bed with God

I teach a survey of art to undergraduates and we cover works of art throughout history and across cultures. Why is it growing up we are taught about God in a completely rigid and asexual way? At least in art, God throughout history appears utterly sexual.