Results for: bomb girls
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Fear & Freedom: Traveling While Trans
Considering the discomfort my friends and loved ones experience when we travel together, or when I share what I think are unremarkable experiences of microaggressions or discrimination, has helped me understand the degree to which I’ve normalized things that are not normal.
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Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Your Type” Is a Moody Trans Girl Anthem
My favorite Carly Rae Jepsen song is “Your Type” — maybe because it’s so easy to read a trans girl subtext into the lyrics.
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California Hits It Out of the Park With New Laws Protecting Women, Gays, Trans People
Hillary has retracted her support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, California has banned gay and trans panic defenses in court, a new poll about attitudes towards immigration, and more!
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Should You Watch Sense8? The Answer’s About as Clear as This Show’s Plot
“There was way more crowning than I was prepared for, but maybe that’s radical for a TV show?”
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Daily Fix: The Tale of the Indiana Wedding Pizza and Other News Stories
Rihanna speaks out against Indiana’s anti-gay bill, a revenge porn website operator is off to jail, a lesbian couple is suing a Georgia sperm bank and more news!
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You Need Help: Your Girlfriend Says Offensive Stuff and You Aren’t Sure How to Deal
Sometimes we love people who don’t share our same value systems or knowledge sets. It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t love them, but it can mean we need to work hard to make sure we aren’t compromising our own values just to placate them.
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Panic! in the Locker Room: On Fighting for Trans* Youth with Words as Weapons
“I mostly ignored the emails, as anyone with an overflowing inbox does. But this subject line caught my eye: Boys in the girls locker room, legally? WTF?! Maybe now is a good time to mention that I identify and visibly present as genderqueer.”
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NY Daily News Tells Story Of Accused Transgender Maid In Most Offensive Manner Possible
The headline is “Transgender Hotel Maid Busted For Groping Teen Boy” — but the headline isn’t even the worst part! It gets so much worse, and so transphobic and so awful. Really it does.
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Where the Bois Are: Bklyn Boihood is the Future
In which we talk about the future with Bklyn Boihood, “a collective that provides visibility and promotes the empowerment of masculine of center bois, lesbians, queers, trans-identified studs, doms, butches and AGs of color.”
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28 Docs Later You’ll Be A Better Person, Just Watch
Autostraddle has a serious soft spot for documentaries, and we want to give you the same. Here’s the official Autostraddle list of the documentary films everyone should see before they die.