Leaving the house today is a terrible idea. Just stay right there, buy some stuff on the internet, and feel really good about the fact that Autostraddle gets a kickback from whatever you buy at these places. YAY COMMERCE!
Topics include Katrina, Catching Fire, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, Silicon Valley, free market propaganda, animals in Hollywood, abortion, the LA riots and more!
“Despite its pro-gay attitude, the film fails to break the pattern of transphobic narratives in cinema, perhaps because it doesn’t understand that trans people are not the same as cis gay people.”
This week in lit: trans* poetry, finding Waldo, reviewing books in GIFs, Doris Lessing, closeted characters, riese reads “the circle” and more.
A selection of three handy dandy printables to help you document your pumpkin pie extravaganza.
Catch the season finale of “Little Horribles” now!
“I think I’m really good at making people think they’re listening to happy music, but if you actually listen to the words you realize it’s really not.”
Yamara Taylor (The Boondocks, How to Rock, Instant Mom) chats about comedy writing, trick or treating at Aisha Tyler’s house, and the dearth of five year old sketch actors.
Sometimes you just need someone to pray to when the radio won’t stop playing Blurred Lines.
Are you ready to see every kid who went to your high school all at one party? You better be because it’s Thanksgiving weekend. Grab your favorite blazer in preparation.
How’s your Thanksgivukkah going so far? Did you light a menorah last night? Have you turned on Pieces of April yet?
What if we’re all wrong about Kanye West? What if we’ll never understand him. What if he and I share a soul.
In celebration of our upcoming redesign launch and the holiday season, we’ve got an easy way for you to win some kick-ass Autostraddle stuff!
Her fairy tale and horror comics are some of the most creative, innovative and just flat out amazing comics I’ve seen online in a long time.
Consider this a formal invitation: Plan to celebrate the holidays this December at a HoliGAY Party with Autostraddle, your local community, and your chosen family!
“There are a thousand ways to die from being trans. But they’re only included if they can be made as sensationalist as possible. Never mind that all these things kill you just the same.”
What’s far too often missing from the narratives of global activism is the nuances of local contexts and agency of “oppressed” people, who don’t simply sit around waiting to be saved. Here’s where the ASC comes in.
This Thanksgiving, we want to make sure that you get the support, resources, and community that you need!
So here, for your careful consideration, are some highly specific gifts for the various smokers in your life. Everyone loves presents, and everyone agrees that candles as gifts are fucking bullshit.
We’ve rounded up a group of New York City’s most stylish androgynous and masculine gender-queer models to show granny how holiday hotness is done — sans the dress.