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Step “Inside The Black Triangle” and Explore Queer Identities at Denver Pride This Weekend

Inside The Black Triangle is a photo series intending to highlight the struggles, joy, heartbreak, confusion, and diverse experiences of queer women living in a heteronormative world, and the artist behind the project is hosting an Autostraddle Meet-Up at Denver Pride this weekend!

By Vanessa June 14, 2018 | 4 Comments

Oh, Hey! It’s Alyssa #49: Pride

“I know the difference between a party that’s celebrating me and a party that’s exploiting me.”

By A. Andrews June 13, 2018 | 19 Comments

Baopu #47: Like a Climbing Vine

Finding resilience in challenging times.

By Yao Xiao June 9, 2018 | 6 Comments

25 NSFW Sex Collages Inspired By Your Queer Erotic Imaginations and/or Lesbian Sexual Fantasies

You came to “Sexing the Collage Cherry” and boi are your arms tired.

By Riese May 31, 2018 | 18 Comments

Oh, Hey! It’s Alyssa #48: Camp 2.0

A quick look back at A-Camp X!

By A. Andrews May 30, 2018 | 26 Comments

Yo! That’s Not Cool #10: Self-Care

“You are important!”

By Brittney Williams May 19, 2018 | 6 Comments

Oh, Hey! It’s Alyssa #47: Touch

Physical touch is not about niceness, it’s about intimacy. It’s not owed. It’s considered.

By A. Andrews May 16, 2018 | 18 Comments

Baopu #46: Take Care of Yourself This Summer

Crying is good for you, and don’t work too hard.

By Yao Xiao May 12, 2018 | 21 Comments

Laura Aguilar, Groundbreaking Lesbian Chicana Photographer, Dies at 58

Aguilar was a pioneer in sharing the faces and experiences of various Latina lesbians in the 90s, when there was very little representation. Aguilar’s art gives the marginalized and subcultures within subcultures — poor, fat, woman, lesbian, Latina — a place to be held and seen.

By Yvonne April 26, 2018 | 8 Comments

Alyssa Andrews Wants To Draw You (Yes, You!) For #AllQueerBods

“Usually the artist is in charge of the perspective, they’re in charge of the way in which we are seen. I wanted it to be a connecting experience, where we kind of give and take and share that experience together.”

By Vanessa February 12, 2018 | 14 Comments

Cristy C. Road’s “Next World Tarot” Boldly Defines a New Generation of Saints

Cristy C Road’s intersectional tarot deck, enchanted with resistance, survival and spirituality, is no longer a dream of the future.

By Courtney Trouble January 18, 2018 | 3 Comments

Holigay Gift Guide: Artsy and Handcrafted Items Made by Women and Queer People

These are all gifts made by women and queer people, each one personally hand-crafted or designed, that you can gift to the discerning artist types in your life.

By Raquel November 15, 2017 | 15 Comments

GALLERY: Maggie West’s Neon NSFW Full-Frontal Fight Against Rape Culture

In a new art installation, Los Angeles-based photographer Maggie West, who specializes in experimental technicolor lighting and whose work increasingly critiques still-rigid contemporary ideas about gender and sexuality, worked with 40 women subjects — including Stephanie Beatriz, Nikki Hearts, Gaby Dunn, Jazzmyne Robbins, Isis King and more — to do just that.

By Carolyn Yates September 14, 2017 | 10 Comments

“BUTCH”: Photographer Meg Allen On Her Kickass Documentation of an Evolving Community

“There are a lot of butches out there still. More than ever. And in a larger variety than ever. And that is what my project depicts, in style, body, race and gender non-conformity.”

By Priya August 24, 2017 | 17 Comments

PHOTO GALLERY: Queer at Work

Your community gallery for May! Nearly 100 queers doing the work!

By Laneia May 31, 2017 | 54 Comments

“Kings & Queens In Their Castles” Captures Queers At Home

Sometimes you have to step outside to remember who you are and who you want to be. And sometimes, you have to retreat to the epicentre of yourself, surrounded by whatever environment you can create.

By Carolyn Yates April 20, 2017 | 7 Comments

Photoessay: Self-Portraits Fueled by Hope and Anger

“What I’m saying is not that art solved my problems, but instead that the strength I found through creating and through fighting back, still pushes me forward.”

By Eli April 4, 2017 | 22 Comments

PHOTO GALLERY: Queer on a Friday Night

It’s another community gallery! What were we all up to on those March Friday nights? I’ll tell you, it did involve some cute cocktails.

By Laneia March 31, 2017 | 69 Comments

Follow Your Arrow: Graphic Designer Soof Andry on Punk-Rock Freelancing

“Generally in life all I want to do is: good work for good causes with good people. I want to be a good designer, I mean truly, deeply good at my craft; everything else is semantics.”

By Beth March 27, 2017 | 6 Comments

PHOTO GALLERY: Queer in the Bedroom

Your next community gallery is here! Come gaze upon nearly 170 queer bedrooms of our lives, and the queers who queer them. Safe for work, more or less!

By Laneia February 27, 2017 | 103 Comments

PHOTO ESSAY: Permanent Reflections of Femme and Genderqueer People of Color

“My niece shows me her Instagram feed and I see no one like her looking back at me. The people I love have fleeting reflections in the media.”

By Eli February 23, 2017 | 16 Comments
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