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My feelings about spiders and getting a spider bite used to be pretty neutral. NOT ANY LONGER. Spiders can burn in the fiery depths of hell.

Charlie Gard, the terminally ill baby at the center of a five-month long legal battle, is front-page

When cishet people deal with sex and HIV, it remains a private affair. When queer people deal with sex and HIV, it can mean death. And not because we’re queer, but because of social and political stigma, because doctors refuse to help us, politicians don’t want to get involved, and conservative religious leaders continue to fuel the stigma behind sex and HIV. This is a classic case of poisoning the well.

You realize pretty soon that everything other than cancer — i.e. missing a train, being late to your dentist appointment — is no biggie compared to the suck factor of chemo.

"I was afraid this thing was going to do me in. But I took a deep breath and decided very early on that I would face cancer on my own terms."

The intricacies of happy vaginas are ever baffling. Thanks again, Nature, for throwing us through a loop with this rare and terrifying sexual disorder.

Prisons as currently structured are abusive, coercive and destructive to women’s self esteem, abilities and families.

Prisons as currently structured are abusive, coercive and destructive to women’s self esteem, abilities and families.