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Our August Book Club selection is Swole: The Making of Men and the Meaning of Muscle by Michael Andor Brodeur. I’ll be sending out date details and a registration link later this week so stay tuned for that!

Hi, friends! On Monday we rounded up the gayest moments from the WPBL’s Opening Weekend. Today, we are getting a little more serious and chatting about the biggest takeaways for the league going forward.

If you’re watching at home, games resume tonight with a matchup between the LA Queens and the Boston Hunters. There are games every evening for the rest of the week—you can find the full season schedule here. Folks on Reddit have stepped up with printable schedules and Google Calendar and iCal integrations.

As a reminder, here is my profile of the Queens’ Ashton Lansdell and the Heights’ Denae Benites, and my profile of the Queens’ Ayami Sato.