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Pretty Little Liars is back for its winter season “bitches,” as the show’s blackmailer and chief trouble – and plot – maker “A” might say. And tonight's winter premiere has the Little Liars pretty much pitted against one another, with Rosewood High’s lesbian lady killer Emily Fields (Shay Mitchell) furthest on the margins of the group. When last we saw the quorum that is Spencer (Troian Bellisario), Aria (Lucy Hale), Hanna (Ashley Benson) and Emily, they’d been hauled into the police station and interrogated --courtesy of "A's" games-- about all of the murder and what not that had been going down in Rosewood.

Super-smart Rowan Blanchard gets the concept of race and intersectional feminism way better than most adults.

October is LGBT History Month, and each day this month the achievements of 31 different lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender icons will be honored. Kye Allums, Alison Bechdel, Rita Mae Brown and Denise Eger are among the icons being celebrated this year who were featured at the beginning of the month. Wanda Sykes will be honored on October 28, 2011. Also being honored are Lady Gaga (October 12), Victoria Kolakowski (October 20), Amelie Mauresmo (October 23) and Constance McMillan (October 24).

There is a tone in America in both big cities like mine and small towns like Ferguson that puts some people at risk for injury or death by cop just by virtue of who they are, not anything they have--or might have--done.