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Happy First Birthday, Queer Your Tech With Fun!

IT HAS HAPPENED. TODAY, RIGHT NOW, I AM WRITING THE 52ND INSTALLMENT OF QUEER YOUR TECH.

A.E. Osworth November 2, 2013 10 Comments
Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Having A Halloween Hangover

Isn’t Halloween the original “orange is the new black”?

carrie November 1, 2013 5 Comments
Geekery

Queered Science: NOGLSTP’s Rochelle Diamond Forged A Path For All of Us

If any of you have ever experienced homophobia in the workplace or queer-related adversity in your personal life and moved on (ahem, way too many of us), then you need to know Rochelle Diamond’s life story.

Vivian November 1, 2013 5 Comments
Gender

How I Get Femme Visibility on the Streets

“I’ve figured out is that it’s not so much how I present it’s what I do. And I finally learned how to casually flirt with people with an eyebrow raise or a smile or a wink, which elicits this response of “I see you and I wink back.””

Bevin November 1, 2013 35 Comments
Recipes

Wilder Hungers: Sleepy Hollow Edition

“We happened to arrive just in time for the block party, which obviously included a children’s dance group dressed like skeletons dancing to “Thriller” AND some aerial dancers swinging from a crane. Are your block parties like that?”

Gabriella November 1, 2013 4 Comments
Politics + Activism

Texas Abortion Restrictions: They’re Back!

Earlier this week, Judge Lee Yeakel ruled one part of Texas’ abortion bill unconstitutional. Now, just a few days later the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed his ruling, meaning that one third of Texas’ remaining abortion clinics must stop providing their services immediately.

Mey November 1, 2013 4 Comments
Straddleverse

Meet Autostraddle’s Newest Writers and Columnists!

Get to know the newest faces at Autostraddle! Complete with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reference.

the team November 1, 2013 27 Comments
Evan Rachel Wood Bisexual as a vampire on True Blood
Geekery

Scientists Make Progress Engineering Artificial Blood In Lab; Sexy Vampires Imminent

Okay, just kidding on the vampires. Probably. But the blood thing is totally true!

Laura Mandanas November 1, 2013 7 Comments
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Paris Lees Debuts On BBC’s “Question Time” In A Skeleton Top, Is Awesome

Ever wanted to see someone who’s been in the state penitentiary system call bullshit on the politicians messing with said system? Yeah. That happened.

Fikri November 1, 2013 8 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #99: Ending Is Hard But It’s Easier Than Loving You

Topics include a “the girl in the closet” (a terrifying story of child abuse), stripping, the funeral business, 12 Years a Slave, sadness, sweatshops, bell hooks on “Lean In” and moar!

Riese November 1, 2013 11 Comments
Crafts & DIY Projects

DIYke: Hanging Flower Vase and Iced Chai Latte

Spice up your vases and your lattes.

Liz November 1, 2013 7 Comments
Camp

DeAnne Smith’s Questionable At Best Asks Marni Philosophical Questions

This week DeAnne hit me in the heart space with a segment that consisted of two of the most amazing people on both Mt. Feelings and The World At-Large: DeAnne Smith herself and Marni, the Co-Director of A-Camp and the Face of Canada.

Carmen November 1, 2013 5 Comments
Crafts & DIY Projects

Hearts and Crafts: Rory Midhani, Our Own Beloved Illustrator

Meet the adorable human being responsible for Autostraddle’s amazing illustrations!

Hansen October 31, 2013 15 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit #32: Turning The Screw

This week in lit: creepy books to read while we’re all still obsessed with Halloween, 10 years of queer YA, Emily Dickinson, “City of Night” and more.

Ryan Yates October 31, 2013 6 Comments
Friendship

Dear Queer Diary: On Pens As Secret Handshakes

According to one of my favorite children’s books, “The ballpoint pen has been the single biggest factor in the decline of Western Civilization. It makes the written word cheap, fast, and totally without character.”

Maggie October 31, 2013 31 Comments
Halloween

Spooky Sexy Queers: The Autostraddle Reader And Staff Halloween Costume Gallery

Wondering how your fellow Straddlers celebrate Halloween? Wonder no longer. We asked for photos and y’all seriously delivered.

Vanessa October 31, 2013 66 Comments
Gender

Quit Calling Elliott Sailors A Male Model—She’s More Interesting Than That

So why can’t anyone seem to talk about her the right way?

Cara October 31, 2013 25 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

Brittani’s Video Party: The Evolution of Geri Halliwell’s Spell Block Tango

A video party for internet troll appreciators, Spice Girls fans, Disney lovers, and Beyoncé stans.

Brittani October 31, 2013 6 Comments
Halloween

30 Couples Costumes for You and Your Redheaded Girlfriend

So here I have for you, in no particular order, a list of fun couples costumes where one person is a redhead!

Lizz October 31, 2013 32 Comments
Food and Drink

Sriracha Plant Might Shut Down. Won’t Anyone Think of the Noodles?

It might be doomed to become a relic of the early millenium that our children and their non-scorched tastebuds will never understand.

Kristen October 31, 2013 7 Comments
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