"We cannot envelope ourselves within the black male body all in the name of collectivism."

The dance: a universal source of misery.

Anastasia Valens on the interactive game 'Even Cowgirls Bleed' and how she relates it to her own experience as a trans woman.

Lurene Grenier on converting to neo-paganism.

The Toast presents a selection of delightful information in the form of a link roundup.

The poetry notebook of someone who wants to fight the system...kinda.

If you're trying to use a sex code, the NOUNS are the worlds you want to replace.

"And that's without taking all the anti-Semitism into account."

Jess White on the experience of living in Laramie, Wyoming, and gay identity's relationship with tragedy.

If there is even the slightest chance you have missed this video of benign Norwegian bodybuilders visiting an extra-small village in order to feel bigger, please give yourself the gift of viewing it now. On my first viewing, I very much barked out a sob of joy, like a bereaved seal. I have been unable to stop watching, since I started.

The Toast presents a selection of delightful information in the form of a link roundup.

Life would sure be different then.

The probablility that Eartha Kitt had sex with Paul Newman and James Dean at the same time is not zero. Rejoice.

My, it wasn't yar.

Rainbow Rowell chats with The Toast about her new book, CARRY ON.