WHEN Chris Pratt posted a photo of himself shirtless and newly buffed-up for his role in Guardians of the Galaxy to Instagram we didn’t hear the…
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SO, I’m a raging queermo. I like girls with septum piercings and the movie Practical Magic. I wrote Harry Potter fanfic and played softball as…
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HOLYCHILD’s Liz Nistico is a bit of everything: part glam, part fem, part ist, and all bad ass. Not to mention, she’s the lead singer as…
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IN A PUBLIC address at a celebration marking the end of Ramadan (the Muslim holy month of fasting), The Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey, Bulent Arinc,…
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IF YOU’VE ever dreamed of achieving Beyoncé-level celebrity and overall physical perfection, you can’t. Beyoncé’s probably not even a real person. So. Sorry if I…
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BACK in the nineties feminist theorist Donna Haraway asked women to choose whether they wanted to become cyborgs or goddesses. If the response to the…
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JUST when I was ready to give up dating, I had the most perfect first date with Liz Meriwether. OK, not exactly. I saw her as…
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In 1923, 90 years ago, the Equal Rights Amendment drafted by feminists and suffragists Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman, was introduced to Congress with the…
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A NEW STUDY recently conducted by the Census Bureau predicts that by 2043, no single racial group will make up a majority in the United…
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ALMOND MILK: AN UPDATE I am an almond-milk drinker. I am twenty something years old. I am an LA girl. I live in Silverlake. Actually,…
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TWITTER has long been maligned as the death of the written word. The Tower of London during Henry VIII’s reign, but for the English language. Off…
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THEY SAY that laughter is the best medicine; that laughter is the cure for grief. And on the worst of days, when everything that could…
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