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The People We Can’t Stop Thinking About
Sarah on limerence, obsession, queer desire, and getting your brain back.
There’s a particular kind of person who can take up residence in your brain without paying rent.
You replay the conversation. Check your phone. Read into the text. Decide you’re over it. Check their Instagram. Decide you’re definitely over it. Then spend 45 minutes imagining a future together based on something they said three weeks ago.
There’s a word for when attraction starts behaving less like a crush and more like an altered state: limerence.
For some people, limerence is exhilarating. For others, the phenomenon...
There’s a particular kind of person who can take up residence in your brain without paying rent.
You replay the conversation. Check your phone. Read into the text. Decide you’re over it. Check their Instagram. Decide you’re definitely over it. Then spend 45 minutes imagining a future together based on something they said three weeks ago.
There’s a word for when attraction starts behaving less like a crush and more like an altered state: limerence.
For some people, limerence is exhilarating. For others, the phenomenon...
The Queer Shortlist: TBA 2026
Each year the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) presents a world renowned festival here in Portland - this year the Time Based Art Festival is back with another lineup of artists who seem less interested in staying in their lane than setting the lane on fire.
We’re looking at four performances that caught our attention: two world premieres, a berserk one-person show, and a work-in-progress with possible rodeo implications. Consider this your personally curated shortlist for what to see when the festival kicks off.
Holland Andrews + yuniya edi kwon
How does it feel...
We’re looking at four performances that caught our attention: two world premieres, a berserk one-person show, and a work-in-progress with possible rodeo implications. Consider this your personally curated shortlist for what to see when the festival kicks off.
Holland Andrews + yuniya edi kwon
How does it feel...
Melissa Etheridge on Finding Freedom in Authenticity
Written by Catie Keck
Melissa Etheridge has been a defining voice in queer music for decades, but there’s something especially indelible about the way she has made herself and her identity so visible in the process. “Come to My Window” has long lived in the canon of queer love songs, one so deeply embedded in our collective history that hearing it can still feel like a kind of recognition. For so many of us, Etheridge isn’t simply a queer icon; she’s someone whose music helped make being openly, unapologetically yourself feel possible.
Her latest album, Rise, finds her...
Melissa Etheridge has been a defining voice in queer music for decades, but there’s something especially indelible about the way she has made herself and her identity so visible in the process. “Come to My Window” has long lived in the canon of queer love songs, one so deeply embedded in our collective history that hearing it can still feel like a kind of recognition. For so many of us, Etheridge isn’t simply a queer icon; she’s someone whose music helped make being openly, unapologetically yourself feel possible.
Her latest album, Rise, finds her...
Deborah Kass On Meaning, Identification, and the Seduction of Color.
Written by Catie Keck
Deborah Kass is a prolific, Brooklyn-based artist whose work reimagines the visual languages of postwar American art through a queer feminist lens, blending appropriation, pop culture, politics, and autobiography to examine who gets seen, celebrated, and remembered. She speaks in systems political, aesthetic, and historical, each braiding into the next to create art that’s visually striking and ideologically subversive.
Over the course of an hourlong conversation with Lesbian Culture Club, what begins as an interview about queer representation and artistic practice quickly expands into something much broader: a reading of the art world...
Deborah Kass is a prolific, Brooklyn-based artist whose work reimagines the visual languages of postwar American art through a queer feminist lens, blending appropriation, pop culture, politics, and autobiography to examine who gets seen, celebrated, and remembered. She speaks in systems political, aesthetic, and historical, each braiding into the next to create art that’s visually striking and ideologically subversive.
Over the course of an hourlong conversation with Lesbian Culture Club, what begins as an interview about queer representation and artistic practice quickly expands into something much broader: a reading of the art world...
