“Whether you write a page-long treatise on your love of Jolly Ranchers or a meditation on the cultural currency of the alternative lifestyle haircut, you’re claiming a space on the page for yourself.”
“I find lesbians to be way more daring than straight men when it comes to coming on to you, and I really like that. And it wasn’t until I found a guy who could come on to me as strong as a lesbian that I fell in love.”
How to make one of the greatest foods of all time.
Tracy Ryerson’s webseries is now free, a new webseries by a Maya Rudolph lookalike, Syd tha Kid’s new video, and an adorable viral video are partying like it’s 1999.
Luckily there are other scouting alternatives for your kids!
For my birthday, I wanna give gifts to other humans: specifically, Team Autostraddle. If you donate, you’ll be giving me the best birthday ever, and I’m willing to bake you cookies or even raffle off an A-Camp campership and more!
Let’s make bulkas together in anticipation of breaking the Yom Kippur fast on Saturday evening. This recipe includes a photo of Vanessa as a small child, a short instructional video, and an until-now top secret family recipe. L’chaim!
dapperQ teamed up with Whitney Day Events to co-produce a diverse runway show for the unconventionally masculine during New York Fashion Week.
The leaves are just barely starting to change and though it’s 80 degrees during the day it’s starting to get chilly at night. Your friends are all going to the local dyke bar’s “Back to School” night and this seems like a good time to put on your Saturday night best and flirt with some cuties.
Learn about VINE Sanctuary and come to this awesome Vegan and Animal Rights Bookswap!
“We started out single, and without a queer community in our cities. Now we’re together and traveling the country, largely thanks to our extended Autostraddle family!”
Its certainly been one hell of a week for DC’s PR team. (Emphasis on hell.)
We’re getting smart about feminism, then collecting our cash rewards for having suffered at the hands of the kyriarchy. Also, a cat mayor exists.
Love. Sex. Riot. An all-female band formed through a mutual love of riot grrrl and Joss Whedon.
Two years after writing that “a woman’s opinion is the miniskirt of the internet,” Laurie Penny is in no shortage of them in her latest mini-book.
State officials have cited marriage bans as defense for the decision, and federal facilities in each state will comply with the policy.
No more wrinkles! You don’t have to bring an iron along for those dress shirts while you’re traveling, it’s all in the folding.
We’re rebuilding our music team and want to hear from music lovers who want to write for Autostraddle!
Sometimes the clearest heads prevail in the cloudiest of rooms. And when it gets too smoky, don’t be scared. Be open, be vulnerable and embrace who you are. Because you are a beautiful, unique, stoned little snowflake and your time has come.
Celebrating the First Lady of the Civil Rights Movement.