We are pleased to present the Curve Power List for 2025. Raquel Willis (she/her) is an award-winning author, activist, and media strategist dedicated to collective liberation, especially for Black ...

We are thrilled to present the winners of the Curve Power List for 2026. Ella Ben Hagai (she/her) is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Lesbian Studies, where she has led a series of influential, ...

Films and series that pass the Curve Test help broaden and deepen representation beyond the stories that reduce LGBTQ+ women, trans, and nonbinary people to stereotypes. This test is not intended to ...

Beverly Little Thunder has been issued a death sentence. Not by the government; by one of her own. Leonard Crow Dog, a Native American* activist, has sworn to kill the 55-year-old Lakota nurse for ...

The millennial lesbians behind a new publication for multigenerational queer women share their vision with Merryn Johns. In a world of seemingly endless digital offerings, three millennial women have ...

From Adventure Time to The Simpsons! I’ve been sat at my desk for most of the morning trying to remember if I saw any openly LGBTQ+ characters in the children’s shows that I watched as a child and for ...

In a grassy area by the river, twenty women stand in a circle. They’re in a women’s retreat; they’ve gathered for a radical body-positive exercise. The exercise centers on the Yoni (the Tantric word ...

Part 2: The term “cotton ceiling”was coined by porn actress and trans activist Drew DeVeaux in 2015. This is the second article in a series. To read the first article, click here. The term “cotton ...

There was definitely a time when claiming you were a butch lesbian was politically important and fashionable. You were the obvious gay woman. You were expressing your gender identity with pride, and ...

We asked, and you nominated. Here are the top 50 outstanding individuals who made our inaugural Power List for their incredible work in the public eye, behind the scenes, in our community, or the ...

Artist-in-residence Ava Calbreath was inspired to dive into ‘Ask Fairy Butch’ and visually represent some of the highlights of the beloved Curve advice column. The result was a conceptual art project ...

Former Curve magazine editors-in-chief Merryn Johns and Diane Anderson-Minshall have a conversation about a pivotal Curve cover story. As we enter 2025, we find that many steps remain to secure LGBTQ+ ...