Deck the Halls with Boughs of Tech: Your Holiday Season App Survival Kit
If you’ve got an existing smartphone or computer, here are a few apps that’ll make life a bit easier for the next few weeks.
The Comment Awards Are Bracing For The Cold
‘Tis the season for gnocchi, Beyonce and tiny elephants.
Why the Dust Must Remain Unsettled: This is India’s Stonewall
“It is a pivotal moment to reignite the movement, pick up the momentum, and strike again. Yes, we will not have it easy but meaningful, sustainable changes in history have never come easy.”
You Need Help: Poking Holes In Your Body
So, I hear you’re looking into a body modification situation.
Nerdy Love Song: The Holigay Gift Guide
This is a gift guide based on DeAnne Smith’s viral video, Nerdy Love Song With Added Kitten Bonus. You’re Welcome
Roundtable: On Coming Out In Our Applications, Interviews, and Lives
Should you tell your dream school that you’re queer in your college application? What about your future employer? The New York Times got us talking about this so we put together a roundtable and now we wanna know how you feel, too.
Things I Read That I Love #105: The Rainbow, The Stars, The Statue Of The Panda
Topics include Lisa Frank, genetic testing, Blue Star Texas, KidZania, the tragic death of a college freshman, Balthazar, Christopher McCandless Pilgrims and more!
Here for the Holigays: Brand New “You Do You” Zip-Up Hoodies
This is the softest comfiest hoodie in the whole world!
Team Pick: Tegan and Sara Cover Pink, Mary Lambert Covers Wheatus, Everything Is Perfect
It’s “make videos of queer girls covering songs from the early 2000s that will make you feel nostalgic and angsty” week for the people of Billboard Magazine!
Playlist: Surviving Finals
If you came to Autostraddle today to procrastinate on your finals work, this is the playlist for you.
Community Scrapbook: Our Second Annual International Autostraddle Meetup Week
Is it just me or do y’all get cuter every year?!
Holigay 2013 Gift Guide: The Busiest Power Dyke You Know
What do you get someone who doesn’t have time to use a gift?
BREAKING: Beyonce Drops Her Album Out of the Blue Ivy
Will you remember where you were when this happened?
How To Keep A Girl For Ten Years: Taking the Plunge into Pet Parenthood
The connection you develop with your pet will help define your sense of humanity better than most human relationships you have or ever will experience.
Lez Liberty Lit #35: These Are Words
This week in lit: the best of the best of lists, holiday crafts with books you want to punish, digital national libraries and more.
La Virgen de Guadalupe: Brown Goddess in My Heart Forever
La Virgen de Guadalupe has always been dear in my heart and always will be, but the way I view her has changed throughout the years, through various lenses with different interpretations, including now as a queer woman.
Dear Queer Diary: Drop Everything and Read!
I don’t know whether it’s the snow that has begun falling in picturesque flakes outside my window or the blizzard of end-of-year lists on my Twitter feed, but it suddenly seems like ‘tis the season for curling up with a good book.
Homespun Love: Pour a Teacup Candle
Whether you’re living above the equator and could use a little extra light right now or chilling on the beach and need something to keep the bugs away, there’s a candle for that.
Australian High Court Shuts Down New Marriage Equality Law, Gay Marriages Declared Invalid
In extremely upsetting and infuriating news, Australia’s High Court has overturned ACT’s legalization of same-sex marriage.
Comedy Crush: Aisha Muharrar Loves Raisins and Apologizing
“Parks and Recreation” writer and terrible black best friend, Aisha Muharrar answers a few questions.