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Lean In, or Just Wear a Bra? Tina Fey on "Inside The Actors Studio"

The void of 30 Rock hurts my heart. Really. Not even glancing at Liz Lemon's head on the side of a Ben&Jerry's container at the market is satisfying ... ...

WAM! NYC Conference This Saturday

Women, Action, and the Media—WAM!—will hold its NYC conference this weekend, 23 March, at the Hive at 55. ...

Yes, Michelle, the Truth is Leading to Painful Confrontations

Last night the twitterverse exploded with the news of Michelle Shocked's homophobe rant at a San Fran concert. ...

Ode To Shosh

With Season 2 of GIRLS having come to a close this past Sunday (read my recaps over at AfterEllen!), it i ...

"Feminists" on the Rise

Great news: feminism is on the rise. That is, the number of women who consider themselves "feminist" has steadily increased over the past four years. ...

Tig Notaro, Lily Tomlin, Judy Gold and Others Headline "Why We Laugh"

This Thursday, 21 March, Showtime will air Why We Laugh: Funny Women, a documentary consisting of a series of interview-portraits of today's most prominent female stand-ups and comedians. ...

Headline News: Thoughts and Commentary

While trolling this news today I thought I'd round up a few of the headlines here, the good the bad and the ugly... ...

The Nun From the Bus Discusses New Pope

Our favorite nun, Sister Simone Campbell appeared on RMS last night to discuss the new Pontif. If you haven't seen the headlines its a mixed bag, which I guess is better than all bad... ...

Documenting Feminist Revolutionaries: Grace Lee Boggs & Angela Davis

Yesterday Moon and I saw Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners, the new documentary about Angela Davis's im ...

Mexico Sets the Tone on Hate Speech

Homophobic epithets are so pervasive across the globe that most heterosexual people are sadly unaware of the psychological and physical toil they have on lesbian, gay, bisexual, ...

Got Legal Questions? Come to Queer Brunch and Talk to Bevin

Bevin Branlandingham is known around town for her body positive performances and for her curated performance parties Rebel Cupcake ...

My First Trip to the GLBT Expo

Preparing for the GLBT Expo this weekend at the Javitz Center, I had some idea of what to expect, like an enormous room full of beautiful queermos hocking pride jewelry, free dental dams and cond ...

"Story of an Egg" Will Make You Think Twice About That Omlette

The PBS Online Film Festival is quite amazing—who didn't squeal with delight when watching Mr. ...

Walk in the Park

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End of the Village Voice, Musto Out!
Gwaker
May 17, 2013

Last week, top editors at the Village Voice resigned in protest when they learned that management wanted them to lay off several members of their already-decimated staff. This morning, those layoffs came down. They're not pretty.

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Photographer Takes Secret Photos of Neighbors for Public Art Project
Gwaker
May 17, 2013

A Tribeca photographer has come under fire for taking clandestine photos of his neighbors and making them available for public consumption through a Chelsea art gallery without the consent of his subjects.

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Most Gay Friendly Sprot? Roller Derby, Duh
Huffington Post
May 17, 2013

"Most people look at the women's side of it and think that it's all of these butch girls playing roller derby. So it just tends to go very easily with lesbians and roller derby,"

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Mark And Pam Crawford, Parents Of Intersex Child, Sue South Carolina For Sex Assignment Surgery (VIDEO)
Huffington Post
May 17, 2013

M.C. feels like a boy. The 8-year-old adopted child of Mark and Pam Crawford identifies as a boy, acts like a boy and is accepted as a boy by his family, school and pediatrician...

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The Scientific Backlash Against the D.S.M.
The New Yorker
May 17, 2013

Insel announced that that the D.S.M.’s diagnostic categories lacked validity, that they were not “based on any objective measures,” ... they were nothing more than constructs put together by committees of experts.

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Obama vs. the Press: Will the A.P. Scandal Yield Reforms? : The New Yorker
New Yorker
May 17, 2013

On Thursday, President Obama called on Congress to revive a federal shield law that would protect reporters from the sort of thing the Justice Department has done to the A.P. This was ironic on two counts.

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The Non-Actor Models in Karl Lagerfeld's Latest Chanel Film Needn't Quit Their Day Jobs
Blouin Artinfo
May 16, 2013

The art of the advertorial fashion featurette has reached pretentious new highs with “Once Upon A Time.” Directed by Karl Largerfeld and starring Keira Knightley’s chin, alongside a bevy of non-actor models, the film is set around the opening of Coco Chanel's hat shop

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