Hey NYC LGBTQ Artists, Submit Your Stuff To “Love Out Loud” Group Show
Vanessa’s Team Pick: An open call for LGBT artists, photographers, and sculptors in the New York City metropolitan area.
Visual Art
Autostraddle Calendar Girls 2014: Chloe and Intern Grace are Double Miss February
Chloe’s beauty is beyond compare, with flaming locks of auburn hair, with ivory skin and eyes of dark coffee. And Intern Grace? Well, her smile is like a breath of spring, her voice is soft like summer rain and no one can compete with her, yipee!
Autostraddle Calendar Girls 2014: Cynthia is Miss January
Meet the first of our 2014 calendar girls! Cynthia will warm your icy winter heart with giant, delicious flowers and her sunny/sexy good looks.
Drinks, Debauchery, and Oh Yeah, Art: A Queer Goes To Art Basel
“Rachel Maddow is actually really sweet in person. Like, really really sweet.”
Difficult Love: Watch Zanele Muholi’s Powerful Documentary on the South African LGBTQ Experience
Anyone who is interested in intersectionality, anti-colonialism, and just regular rattling of the cage of mainstream norms, this is for you.
Autostraddle Calendar Girls 2013: Christina is Miss December
Do you have tickets to the gun show? Let’s wrap up this year in a neat little bow with December’s calendar girl, Christina!
Autostraddle Calendar Girls 2013: Alana and Julie are Double Miss November
And you thought November was nothing but cold and rain? Meet Alana and Julie!
Queer Artist Lizz Andronaco Wants You (To Paint!)
Jamie’s Team Pick: “Her paintings capture queer sexuality in an honest, sensual way I find both striking and refreshing.”
Now Casting: Autostraddle’s 2014 Calendar Girls
Have you always wanted to grace the pages of an Autostraddle Calendar? Now’s your chance to apply!
Autostraddle Calendar Girls 2013: KP and Michelle are Double Miss October
Who needs fall foliage and pumpkin spice lattes when you’ve got KP and Michelle? Happy October!
On Gender, Girlhood, and Norman Rockwell
A decade before Rosie, Rockwell was painting the girls who were destined to become riveters.
Sophia Wallace Wants The World To Get Cliterate
Vanessa’s Team Pick: Sophia Wallace believes “the world is illiterate when it comes to women’s bodies” but she’s decided it’s time for us all to get Cliterate.
Autostraddle Calendar Girls 2013: Taylor is Miss September
Meet Miss September!
Autostraddle Calendar Girls 2013: Mary and Joanna are Double Miss August
Oh you thought only one person at a time could be a Calendar Girl? Think again — Joanna is an Olympic paleo CrossFit nerd and Mary will help you move and train your dolphin.
Stories from the Subway: Visit the Underground New York Public Library
If you like books and street photography, UNYPL is going to be your new happy place.
It’s Time To Add Your Queer Voice To The Sketchbook Project
The Sketchbook Project is “a traveling library created by thousands of people from across the globe,” and I think you should sign up to participate.
TESTIMONY Exhibition Gets Born, Tells The Story Of Being Young And Queer
Were we ever so young? “Testimony” is here to tell us we were (and it was actually kind of okay.)
Autostraddle Calendar Girls 2013: Brittany is Miss July
Brittany is a caring nurse on her way to the top and a gymnast with a penchant for handstands. You’d better be able to throw a football!
Queer Couchsurfing Through Europe: A Photography Book You Can Help Fund
Queer photographers Yael Malkas and Cait Oppermann are going backpacking through Europe and making a queer photography book out of it. Help fund queer art!
Alexa Meade Turns Realism On Its Head
Laura’s Team Pick: This stuff takes that whole “life imitates art” thing to the next level.