Striving to Evolve - CURVE
Welcome to the debut of Curve quarterly! So many of you have been asking me about Curve magazine’s status, so here’s a rundown of where we are 33 years after our first issue. As we’ll now be publishing — digitally — four times a year, the magazine continues to evolve. Its name will still be Curve, but its frequency will be quarterly ...
Unveiling the 2024 Curve Power List
As Lesbian Visibility Week arrives, we're bursting with excitement to unveil the inaugural Curve Power List, a celebration of 50 LGBTQ+ women and nonbinary individuals who are creating seismic shifts in the United States. From sports and entertainment icons to corporate leaders and politicians, these individuals are breaking barriers, challenging norms, …
A Year in Review: The Curve Foundation’s Journey Through 2024
2024年10月29日 · Highlights From an Incredible Year. As I think about the year’s milestones, a few moments really stand out for me: JANUARY: We wrapped up our “Curve Magazine Cartoons: Dyke Strippers’ Retrospective,” a live exhibit of lesbian comics printed in DENEUVE and Curve through the ’90s. It was a joyful, hilarious, and moving …
Curve Power List: 50 LGBTQ+ Women and Nonbinary Trailblazers
Ariana DeBose. Actor/singer. Ariana made her name on Broadway before wowing audiences with her Oscar-winning performance as an Afro-Latina Anita in the 2021 film remake of West Side Story.She is the first Afro-Latina, the first openly queer actor of color, and the first openly queer woman to win an Oscar, as well as the first openly queer woman of …
Envisioning Lesbian Excellence - CURVE
To quote former Curve editor, Merryn Johns: Lesbian journalism has always been about speaking truth to power, and insisting on our space in the culture, whatever and wherever we agree that to be. The insistence is to see, and be seen, wielding visibility as a political act of witnessing and taking space. In this tradition, lesbian visibility is ...
The Sky's the Limit for Ahead of the Curve Movie - CURVE
Two and a half years since its release and distribution — during one of the worst times in history for gathering people together — Ahead of the Curve continues to connect and advocate for acceptance of lesbians, queer women, and nonbinary people everywhere. I sat down with co-directors Jen Rainin and Rivkah Beth Medow and asked them to comment on the film’s journey in the wider world.
Franc on Phranc…And Butch Identity - CURVE
From Stonewall activist Stormé DeLarverie to renowned author Leslie Feinberg, butch women have been influencing American lesbian culture since before the genesis of the contemporary Western identity that emerged in the 1940s-1950s. It became a formal identity within the underground lesbian bars of the time, where butch/femme dynamics simultaneously reflected and subverted mainstream gender norms.
Blog - CURVE
2021年4月6日 · Saturday Night Live Hilariously Takes On The ‘Lesbian Period Drama’ and Wins. Kate McKinnon as third wheel is hilarious! Her comedic genius is always winning our hearts. From the makers of Portrait of a Lady on Fire and The Favourite comes Lesbian Period Drama, a new will-they-won’t-they period piece. Sure. I mean, we’re gonna see it ...
Celebrating the Winners of the Curve Award for Excellence in …
The award was open to lesbians, queer women, trans people and nonbinary people who have used journalism and media to elevate lesbian issues and causes. The selection committee this year consisted of notable activists, publishers, editors, and journalists including Franco Stevens, Merryn Johns, Eboné Bell, and Daisy Hernández.
It Gets Better, Wherever You Are - CURVE
It Gets Better, Wherever You Are. On September 12th, I was joined in the proverbial Zoom room by Katie Barnes, Helen Santoro and Yvonne Marquez for a breakout session at NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists’ 2021 conference. The session, entitled “Storytelling at Our Intersections,” brought us together for only the second time ...