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.
“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.””
“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?”
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.
Get to know the newest faces at Autostraddle! Complete with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reference.
Okay, just kidding on the vampires. Probably. But the blood thing is totally true!
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.
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!
Spice up your vases and your lattes.
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.
Meet the adorable human being responsible for Autostraddle’s amazing illustrations!
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.
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.”
Wondering how your fellow Straddlers celebrate Halloween? Wonder no longer. We asked for photos and y’all seriously delivered.
So why can’t anyone seem to talk about her the right way?
A video party for internet troll appreciators, Spice Girls fans, Disney lovers, and Beyoncé stans.
So here I have for you, in no particular order, a list of fun couples costumes where one person is a redhead!
It might be doomed to become a relic of the early millenium that our children and their non-scorched tastebuds will never understand.
“Take a break from writing that Betty/Kate fanfiction and rejoice, for the powers-that-be have heard our pleas and have made good on their promises because WE ARE BACK, WE ARE IN BUSINESS, AIN’T NOBODY FUCKIN WITH MY CLIQUE BECAUSE WE HAVE A MOVIE AND THAT MOVIE IS OFFICIAL.”
Get the perfect start to your super last minute Halloween costume!