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[VIDEO] TMS Watches WWE: Let’s Get Ready for Roadblock!

Wrestling? On MY The Mary Sue dot com? It's more likely than you think!

George Takei’s Allegiance Hits Theaters Tomorrow Night, Just When We Need It Most

A week from the seventy-fifth anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, on Tuesday, December 13th, 2016, George Takei's musical Allegiance will premiere in a one-day theatrical engagement across the US.

Finding Feminist Submission: How I’m Pushing Back Against Non-Consensual Misogyny in BDSM

My husband says and does the most misogynistic things imaginable to me, and I melt like a popsicle in the sun. But after this election season, non-consensual misogyny has flourished in the kink community—and we need to fight it together.

Please Don’t Get Lost In Fiction—People Need You

It’s understandable that people would turn to meaningful fictions in a time of mental, emotional, and spiritual need, but seeking comfort in these media has to stop somewhere.

8 Times Futurama Dropped the Ball on Gender

Gender identity is a subject where the writers of Futurama often stuck their feet in their mouths.

What Buffy’s Anya Jenkins Can Teach Us About Rage, Grief, and Strength in 2016

It’s been a tough year, and it keeps getting tougher. Here’s what we can learn from everyone’s favorite former vengeance demon.

Feminism Evolved: What Intersectionality Means in the Trump Era

Intersectional feminism means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

Motor Crush #1 Is the Candy-Pink Philosophical Cyberpunk We’ve Been Waiting For

Motor Crush is a book about speed and danger, which also makes it a book about limits and consequences.

We Make the Multiverse: How Sci-Fi and Fantasy Can Save the World

In a sociopolitical climate defined by fear, uncertainty, and divisiveness, speculative fiction in all its forms is more critical than ever.

How I Discovered the Quiet, Feminist Liberation of Erotic Fanfic

There is a safe space that fanfiction provides for autonomy and feminism through an exploration of kink and sensuality, dominated by the written word.