May 22, 2013
Also.Also.Also: The IRS Targeted LGBT Groups And Other Stories We Missed This Week
The IRS doesn’t discriminate when it comes to discrimination, Andrea Gibson and Kelsey Gibb launch a new website, Brazil legalized same-sex marriage and much more.
May 22, 2013
Eleven Women of Color You Should Know and Admire
Women who inspired us, gave us a vocabulary and taught us how to be ourselves.
May 22, 2013
May 22, 2013
Grow a Little Love: Making Plantable Paper Notecards
Money has a monopoly on the “surprise in the greet card” market. Shake things up a little bit and give a card that grows into a plant.
May 22, 2013
Almost Famous: Kelsey Montanez
Kelsey’s a Chicago-based musician and rising star. She has a free EP that every pop lover needs to download.
May 21, 2013
You, Too, Can Be Made Gay By The X-Files: Scully 101
“Stef: I don’t know how but somehow Rachel managed to find one X Files episode with lesbians in it.”
May 21, 2013
Anonymous Sex Toy Review: G-Chatting About the Hitachi Magic Wand
“I feel like Hitachi is to vibrators as Dyson is to vacuum cleaners. There just isn’t one more powerful. So if you like vibrators, you should have one.”
May 21, 2013
Sparrowhawks’ New EP, ‘Wanderlust’ Is Rad (And Free)
If you don’t know about Sparrowhawks then you’re in for a treat.
May 21, 2013
Get Baked: Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Dough S'more Cupcakes
If you need to drown your sorrows about not going to A-camp, I pinky swear these chocolate peanut butter cookie dough s’more cupcakes will do the trick.
May 21, 2013
Idol Worship: Ten(ish) Questions About Camp with Julie and Brandy
Julie wants me to say, “Nothing brings you to comedy.” I guess she means, we were always funny and attracted to funny people so that’s why we are here. And that it wasn’t necessarily a choice. We were born this way. Now she wants me to say, “YES BITCHES, BRANDY WAS BORN THAT WAY.”
May 21, 2013
Make A Thing: Merit Badges
Making merit badges is significantly easier than earning them.
May 20, 2013
I'm Not A Gender Zombie and Neither Are You: Rejecting Anti-Trans Bigotry From Rachel Ivey and Deep Green Resistance
Word has quickly spread on the web in the last week or so that Rachel Ivey, a member of the Deep Green Resistance environmentalist movement that holds openly transphobic views as “core” principles, is putting together a speaking tour consisting of a few relatively high profile events in June and July.
May 20, 2013
Choose Your Character: I'm Peach, Not Mario
“I did extremely well in any video games with dating elements, like Persona 4, but virtual dating and real dating are two very different things. I could master playing as someone else, but as the old cliché of dating advice often goes, I needed to be myself.”
May 20, 2013
You Need An Autostraddle Hoodie, Can Buy One Right Now
Just in time for summer! HOODIES! Hoodies everywhere. Soft super-cute hoodies in two colors (concrete and cardinal red) and unisex sizes!
May 20, 2013
Ode to My Pantry: Daikonura!
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you daikon, make your own holiday!
May 20, 2013
Straddler On The Street: Jillian
Jillian made me want to run away to a farm. Specifically her farm, in Kansas. I think you might feel the same way once you’ve read this interview.
May 19, 2013
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Flirting For Fun
This week on NSFW Sunday: how to flirt, how to spank, how to have a lesbian affair if you live in the 1920s and more.
May 19, 2013
Sunday Funday Is Comin' Out Round the Mountain
Get it? Coming out? Ugh.
May 18, 2013
Zoe Saldana Bisexual: Responds With Ellipses When Asked About Prior Relationships With Women
“Promise me one thing — if you choose to [print the question "have you had a relationship with another woman?"] just put three dots as my response. That’s it.”
May 18, 2013
Sorry, Texas, But Letting Student Groups Discriminate Is Not the Same As "Religious Freedom"
To your average conservative legislator, it may seem like a good idea to let anti-gay religious or political groups choose not to have members who don’t reflect their “values.” But when it involves having students pay for their own discrimination, it’s not so simple.
May 18, 2013
Tech Spring Cleaning Part 3: Actually Literally Cleaning Your Tech
There are only two steps, to be completed on days of your choosing: 1. obtain the following materials and 2. use them on your technology. Ready. Set. Go.
May 17, 2013
Butch Please: A Letter to Baby Butches
I have every faith in you, baby butch. I know you will be careful with this word and its legacy. It looks like a badge but it feels like a battleaxe, and I need you to know that it’s five times as difficult to earn and ten million times more dangerous.
May 17, 2013
The Comment Awards Are Feeling Campy
Cyborgs, Adam Lambert, camp dreams and more!
May 17, 2013
Five Solo Crash Pad Scenes For Masturbation Month
I like to call this meta-masturbation. Touch yourself to scenes of people touching themselves. Happy Masturbation Month!
May 17, 2013
Liberty Lit #20: Remember Library Lesbianism
An excerpt from Michelle Tea’s new novel, chicken lit is the new chick lit, library lesbianism, sexism in publishing and more.
