2+ hour, 27+ min ago   (217+ words) But the Trump administration’s attack on data collection puts demographic information like this at risk in the years to come More adults in the United States identify as queer or trans than ever before, according to a new HRC report....

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (813+ words) My family showed love through action, but my friends helped me learn to say it out loud “Have a good night, guys! Love you, Eva!” I stare at my future mother-in-law smiling at me through my partner’s phone and smile…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1192+ words) “Blonde” and “channel ORANGE” both came out during pivotal moments in my queer awakening. A decade later, how can I listen to them without breaking my heart? It wasn’t the tattoo that first drew me to Ace, but the first…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (796+ words) Malavika Kannan’s debut has all the makings of a classic Credit: Courtesy Henry Holt and Co. / Xtra A young woman is dropped off at Stanford by her parents for her first semester of college. Her mother looks around reverently, telling…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (979+ words) The Bridgers on “Lost Weekend” is an earnest journeyman, shaping each painful memory into beautiful songs that trade equally between mourning and wry contentment Credit: Todd Owyoung/NBC via AP The first time we hear Phoebe Bridgers on Lost Weekend,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1008+ words) The Muskoka-set series glosses over the racism of Canada’s cottage country My girlfriend and I often joke that our hometowns are polar opposites. I grew up in Richmond, B.C., a suburb of Vancouver where more than half of the population…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1096+ words) If the prime minister is willing to cave on this issue, it seems reasonable to expect there will be others down the line Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at a Liberal campaign event for Liberal Party Beaches-East York byelection in…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (996+ words) S. Lamble’s debut argues that punishment makes anti-trans activists double down on their hate In 2018, Kathleen Stock, a philosophy professor at the University of Sussex, wrote an op-ed in The Economist opposing the acknowledgement of trans women as women. She alleged…...

2+ week, 11+ hour ago   (256+ words) Sports media is perpetuating a problem that doesn’t actually exist Credit: Canva, Mel Woods/Xtra Check into women’s sports news this week, and you’d think that trans women existing is the most threatening issue to the sanctity of the women’s…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (946+ words) Jane Schoenbrun’s “I Saw the TV Glow” follow-up shows the threads between nostalgia, violence and sexual pleasure Recently, I wrote a master’s thesis on The X-Files, a series I’ve loved since I was a teen. I aimed to turn a…...