Hi. How Are You?: A Call for Consciousness and Kindness
by: Addison Bell There was a suicide on Valentine’s Day. I was desperately trying to get to Lincoln Park from downtown, but all of the Red Line stations were closed off […]
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Stephin Merritt Won’t Leave My Heart Alone
by: Mariann Devlin The first time I heard the Magnetic Fields, I was on a bus in Anchorage, Alaska, headed to one of my classes. I had just broken up […]
Lessons Learned from the Berenstain Bears
by: Shelly Phillips On February 24, 2012, Jan Berenstain, the last remaining living member of the husband-and-wife writing team that penned the bestselling children’s series, the Berenstain Bears, passed away […]
Ohioans Try to Overturn State Constitutional Marriage Ban
by: Jamie Anne Royce Note: This piece was originally published at Stuff Queer People Need to Know and has been republished with permission. You can check out the original here. […]
Part of a Whole Person: My Thoughts on Angelina Jolie’s “Starving” Right Leg
by: Khai Devon Angelina Jolie’s right leg and left leg are talking again, according to RL’s twitter feed. Next award show, LL gets the slit—and all the attention. They’re cool. […]
How to Come Out in the Middle of Nowhere
by: Timothy Lalowski Nine months before I was born, my city-raised parents decided to move to a farm in Sycamore, IL in order to house the multiplying amount of children. […]
A Lack of Divine Authenticity: My Umbrage With Christian Films
by: Johnny Gall As a person of faith, I have no problem admitting that most Christian music is awful. There’s little depth in the lyrics, little musical complexity, and nothing […]
Life’s a Drag (And We Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way)
by: Kevin Sparrow Note: This post was originally featured on Go Over the Rainbow. You can find the original here. Cross-dressing for performance–though unfortunately not the most popular pastime–has a […]
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tennessee: Why Muslims and the LGBTQ Community Should Be Allies
by: Chris Stedman Note: This article was originally featured in the Huffington Post. You can find the original here. Last year, two notable controversies brewed in Tennessee: a proposed bill […]
Stuff Young Privileged White Liberals Like
by: Kara Crawford In recent years, certain trends among liberals–primarily young, privileged, white liberals (henceforth referred to as YPWLs)–have become apparent to me. I don’t fundamentally object to most of them, but […]
