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 ...

Curve editor Merryn Johns reflects on a female photographer whose work possibly altered the course of her life, and discovers that they share a female gaze across hemispheres—and a love for Vegemite.

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, ...

Former Curve magazine editors-in-chief Merryn Johns and Diane Anderson-Minshall have a conversation about a pivotal Curve cover story. Curve Archive and Outreach Manager Julia Rosenzweig taps into the ...

In 2020, the same year Curve ceased publishing, Sara Prager at Tagg Magazine wrote a right-on article about the problem of appropriating one of the iconic identities of Black lesbians: the stud. First ...

Real-life besties Leisha Hailey and Kate Moennig sit down with Janelle Beck to discuss their joint memoir So Gay for You, which is a New York Times bestseller—and the phenomenon that was the ...

In a sea of streaming services and an increasingly strange film industry landscape, where did our beloved genre of “lesbian cinema” land last year? Merryn Johns takes a look. Last year wasn’t a ...

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 ...

In the 40th year since the release of Desert Hearts, Merryn Johns sits down with the film’s director and its stars to discover the essence of this groundbreaking lesbian-feminist movie. Even though ...

“Visibility is about making sure our lives are recognised, our experiences are understood and our communities are supported. It is about creating a world where people don’t have to fight to be seen ...

Madeline Anthony reflects on lesbian visibility after being confronted by some unanticipated homophobia on a trip to Peru. If you asked me a month ago how much I knew about life abroad, I would have ...