UK’s Plan to Block Porn and “Adult Subjects” Doesn’t Bode Well for Gay and Sex Ed Resources
Flawed attempts to make the internet a safe space could be compromising actual safe spaces with an indiscriminate default-on porn filter.
Queer Your Tech With a Nerdy Video Party
Seriously. The geeks of the interwebs were on point with the video content this week. Includes a feminist analysis of Adventure Time, Bill Nye explaining asteroid disasters and some rad footage of plants growing (which is, it should be noted, more exciting than it sounds).
Pretty Little Liars Recap 407: Crash and Burn and Take Off Your Pants, Girl!
Okay. A murderous, cyber-stalking, all-knowing bully I can grasp, but any teen girl talking to her dad like this? No way.
Things I Read That I Love #85: Cut-Out Dolls For Grown-Up Girls
Topics include Shirley Jackson, paper dolls, disaster reporting in Haiti, HIV/AIDS, the Worst of White Folks, Rick James, exes on social media, working at a men’s magazine and more!
AB Chao Is Gay: Mom and Design Blogger Extraordinaire Plays For Your Team, Has Cute Hair
Welcome to the club, AB Chao! Your membership card is in the mail (with the toaster).
Orange is the New Black 105: Chick-Fil-A Has Nothing On This Episode
“Nothing like clean pores to motivate the capture and slaughter of a chicken.”
The Comment Awards Want to Know How You Like Your Eggs
Weaponized vibrators, kick-ass asses and BRUNCH!
Hey, You Can Put Away Your Razors Next Month
Or don’t. Armpits4August doesn’t mind whether you preen your pits or not, as long as you’re willing to talk about it and PCOS.
Lez Liberty Lit #25: War and Peach
This week in lit links: book-inspired ice cream, why “women’s stories” aren’t the same as stories about women’s lives, writing gay YA in Russia and more.
Definitely Read “What Makes a Baby” To Any and All Children
Because it’s not just sex education. It’s life education.
Let’s Get Brunch: July 26-28 Is International Autostraddle Brunch Weekend
It’s the most delicious time of year! You should join your local Straddlers for some 3D brunchy realness.
DeAnne Smith’s Questionable At Best Asks “What’s too Jewy?”
“I love Jewish gays.”
A Talk With The Fighters From The First UFC Match Between Two Lesbians
They’re experts in five Olympic events, and they’re about to beat each other up. But first they have some very nice things to say.
Undocumented & Queer: How Lulú Martinez is Melting Borders
“A phrase that often arises in this movement is “ni de aqui, ni de alla,” (neither from here nor there), and it speaks to the ability we seek as queer immigrants to define home as we choose, whether in a geographic sense, within our communities, or a gendered sense, within our bodies.”
Six Badass Sci-Fi Women of Color You Should Know
Six kickass women of color from three sci-fi TV shows you should know but maybe don’t.
Real-Life Sophia Bursets: Transgender Women Face a Nightmare in Men’s Prisons
“For trans* women who are locked up, getting access to medical care and safety from the guards and inmates is a serious problem. But the problem starts when they are put in prisons designed for men.”
Brittani’s Video Party: A Hot Year with a Bear and Crotch Sweat
Unfriendly English hotties, a Kotex diss track, a woman who knows how to handle a bear, and a short film capturing a year in the life of a queer Texan turned Californian party it up.
VIDEO: Unicorn Plan-It Episode 205 “Dinah Blow Your *Unicorn* Horn”
Episode 205 of Unicorn Plan-It wants to online date you.
19 Ways Our Queer Weddings Won’t Suck
Until complete marriage equality reigns, our feelings on tacky lingerie and weird patriarchal traditions are kind of a moot point so we’re allowed to be bitchy when we judge them, right? Mmmkay then.
A Prairie Homo Does New York: Moving at the Speed of New York
Some may call this need for speed insanity, others call it energy. I’m not sure how I feel because…feelings? Who has time for feelings?