when the first queen of disco gloria gaynor helped to usher the disco sound into the mainstream after her 1974 cover of the jackson 5’s “never can say goodbye” peaked inside the pop top 10, little did she know that four year later, she’d release one of the most significant songs in pop music histor

throw your hands up into the air if you somehow (barely) survived the 99 days of january 2025. my gawd, my mental health is in the toilet and my anxiety is fuckin’ sky high - but i am holding on because i don’t know how not to hold on. it is not just resilience, it is resistance. people. hold.

we weren’t catholic but easter was still a big thing in our family. and by that i mean, we got new clothes to show off while doing what we did every other day - sit on the damn steps. we didn’t get easter baskets. we didn’t go to sunday mass. we didn’t do family outings. those were not part of

my mother once had a friend named “gary.” he was a tall black gay man. i remember him because he LOVED stephanie mills. i remember this vividly because he would say, “i love stephanie mills!” every time one of her songs played on the radio. and the radio was always on in our house. i grew up kn