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Straddler On The Street: PJ

“Being butch is something I have both been my entire life and something that I have chosen.”

Vanessa July 29, 2013 17 Comments
Food Lists

Ode to My Pantry: Popcorn

Nothing tastes as good as an explosion.

Kristen July 29, 2013 12 Comments
Society + Culture

The UN Wants Us To Be Free & Equal and Naya Rivera Looks Good In Pink This Sunday Funday

Mmmmm. Tastes like bottomless.

Carmen July 28, 2013 14 Comments
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Will Take You To Brunch

This week on NSFW Sunday: a better online dating profile, lesbian vocabulary, sex scandals and more.

Ryan Yates July 28, 2013 6 Comments
Politics + Activism

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.

Fikri July 27, 2013 33 Comments
Geekery

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).

A.E. Osworth July 27, 2013 17 Comments
TV Show Recaps

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.

Lizz July 26, 2013 21 Comments
Literature

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!

Riese July 26, 2013 11 Comments
Coming Out

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).

Hansen July 26, 2013 22 Comments
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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.”

Kate July 26, 2013 54 Comments
Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Want to Know How You Like Your Eggs

Weaponized vibrators, kick-ass asses and BRUNCH!

carrie July 26, 2013 3 Comments
Health

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.

Kristen July 26, 2013 35 Comments
Literature

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.

Ryan Yates July 26, 2013 1 Comment
LGBT Book Reviews

Definitely Read “What Makes a Baby” To Any and All Children

Because it’s not just sex education. It’s life education.

A.E. Osworth July 26, 2013 6 Comments
Community

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.

Vanessa July 26, 2013 145 Comments
Comedy

DeAnne Smith’s Questionable At Best Asks “What’s too Jewy?”

“I love Jewish gays.”

Lizz July 25, 2013 8 Comments
Sports

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.

Kaitlyn July 25, 2013 13 Comments
Politics + Activism

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.”

Kemi July 25, 2013 11 Comments
TV Lists

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.

SJ Sindu July 25, 2013 48 Comments
Gender

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.”

Mey July 25, 2013 18 Comments
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