Shannon Keating
Kindness Is Not Enough
As illustrated by the A-list stars applauding Ellen DeGeneres’s friendship with George W. Bush and a “beautiful” video of Brandt Jean forgiving his brother’s killer, the most privileged among us too often prioritize positivity over justice.
Shannon Keating
Am I Writing About My Life, Or Selling Myself Out?
Narcissistic, self-indulgent, worthless, cruel: criticisms leveled against social media influencers and young women who write about themselves sound a lot alike.
Shannon Keating
Against Nihilism
This summer I confronted an unsettling question: Why bother being kind to my body or saving for the future if there isn’t even going to be a future?
Shannon Keating
Do Women’s Clothes Seem Weird Lately? Because I’m Into It
The modesty of a prairie dress, the horniness of a crop top — women’s style trends have gone haywire, and it’s great.
Shannon Keating
This HBO Show Nails What It’s Like To Be Alive In 2019
The family at the heart of HBO’s Years and Years alternates between anger and despair in the midst of global turmoil — just like us.
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People Are Calling For This Queer Indie Film To Be Canceled Before It Hits Theaters
Rhys Ernst’s queer coming-of-age movie, Adam, was set to be an indie hit — then an online campaign started urging audiences to boycott it. What happened? (Spoilers.)
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Are Straight Women OK?
Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women is framed as a sweeping exploration of human desire, when it’s really just one more “relatable” narrative of straight women’s sexual despair.
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Lesbians Won The Women's World Cup
Opinion: I’m not proud of this country’s curtailment of human rights, but I am proud of Megan Rapinoe and her team for demanding better.
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The Time I Went On A Lesbian Cruise And It Blew Up My Entire Life
I didn’t expect that spending a week with a couple thousand lesbians on a cruise ship would push me to radically reconsider the future I’d planned for myself.
Shannon Keating
I Am My Own Curvy Wife
By surrounding myself with friends who don’t diet-shame — and filling my Instagram feed with beautiful fat and queer bodies — I seek my own version of “wellness.”
Shannon Keating
Let’s Talk About That Confessional Scene In “Fleabag”
Fleabag’s second season wrestles beautifully — and sexily — with gender, power, and desire. (Warning: hot priest spoilers.)
Shannon Keating
Reckoning With Personal Responsibility In The Age Of Climate Change
As someone who loves traveling and going outdoors, I struggle with balancing my hopefulness and my despair — and my culpability — regarding an imperiled earth.
Shannon Keating
Why So Many Of Us Believed Taylor Swift Was Coming Out
The Taylor Swift coming-out rumors mirror the way a lot of women try to suss out if their crushes are queer. Also, celesbian gossip is fun.
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Gender Dysphoria Isn’t A “Social Contagion,” According To A New Study
A Brown researcher slams the 2018 study — from a different researcher at Brown — which found teenagers were identifying as trans due to “rapid-onset gender dysphoria.”
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This 61-Year-Old Woman Just Gave Birth To Her Own Granddaughter
Matthew Eledge and Elliot Dougherty of Omaha, Nebraska, needed a surrogate to carry their baby. They never expected she would turn out to be Matthew’s mother.
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It’s Been 20 Years Since “Cruel Intentions,” And There’s Never Been Another Movie Quite Like It
Back in 1999, when nihilism was cooler than niceness, the shameless teen debauchery of Cruel Intentions sparked a generation’s sexual awakening.
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Why Is Pop Culture Full Of Lesbian Lookalikes?
Doppelgänger imagery sometimes reduces queerness to a symbol or fetish — but subverting that trope can be a way to consider the link between self-recognition and desire.
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"The Bisexual" Is The Queer Women Drama Of My Dreams
Desiree Akhavan’s Hulu series offers everything I needed — and didn’t get — from The L Word the first time around.
Shannon Keating
Ellen DeGeneres And The Limits Of Relatability
After decades trying to convince an anti-gay mainstream that she’s a relatable person — gay, but “just like you” — Ellen ended up in a prison of her own making.
Shannon Keating
Glennon Doyle Is Trying To Wake Up White Women. Is It Working?
The author, activist, and former mommy blogger has been encouraging her mostly white fans to speak up and empower themselves. What happens when her new advice is to shut up, listen, and let women of color lead the way?
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