38+ min 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…...

1+ day, 22+ 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…...

2+ day, 8+ min 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,…...

6+ day, 22+ hour 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, 5+ hour 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, 22+ hour 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…...

1+ week, 3+ day 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…...

1+ week, 6+ 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…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (383+ words) Some significant improvements to the C.U.N.T. Test challenge help make this a banger semifinal episode Snatch Game functions as the Charisma round of the C.U.N.T. Test, and it's a surprisingly solid installment of the signature challenge Credit: Courtesy Bell Media Our final…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (460+ words) While way too short, the ballroom-inspired adaptation’s run has been a much-needed beacon for the queer community That feeling couldn’t last forever. I was heartbroken when HBO Max cancelled Legendary in December 2022 (a year after FX ended Pose), and I…...