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The End of the Rainbow: What happens when Pride stops trending?
In June 2026, the same companies that just a few years ago were racing to add rainbows to their logos and drive floats through pride parades have gone quiet. No profile picture changes. No statements. No floats. The silence is not neutral. Corporate Pride People inside queer communities saw this coming. For years, the criticism of corporate pride sponsorship was consistent: the attraction to queer aesthetics felt transactional, a cash grab by companies that did little to mate
Brandy Sumner
Jun 112 min read


So, You Want to be Beautiful: The Politics of Looksmaxxing
Livestreams depict young men sitting in fancy cars and standing in bustling clubs, smiling awkwardly while steroids course through their bodies. If you turned the lights on, you would see red marks on their cheeks and jaws from hammers, the stubble barely starting to fill out their young faces. "Looksmaxxing" has entered the public zeitgeist as the newest form of self-improvement. Young men take extreme measures to increase their attractiveness, often pursuing dangerous pract
Brandy Sumner
Jun 43 min read


What Conversion Therapy Being Legal Again Actually Means
A protester in Kansas City marches with students from Crossroads Preparatory Academy in 2022. On Thursday, City Council repealed a ban on so-called conversion therapy, a scientifically discredited practice that seeks to “convert” LGBTQ+ minors to a heterosexual lifestyle. On March 31, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 that Colorado's ban on conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ minors violated the First Amendment. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion. Justice Ketanji Br
Alexia Anderson
May 292 min read


Smith College, Title IX, and the Question Nobody Is Asking Loudly Enough
The Trump administration opened a civil rights investigation into a private women's college for admitting trans women. Legal experts are baffled. The implications go far beyond one campus.
Triston Grant
May 152 min read


The History of Gender Expression
Gender fluid individuals have a rich and extensive history that often goes unknown.
Kat Gran
Apr 13 min read
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