Here at Autostraddle, we love kickass women. We’re presenting a list of 20 of our favorite kickass fictional heroines as a way to jumpstart this feelingsfest and leaving the rest up to you!
How dare I fall for the signature move when I’ve heard about it countless times over Chinese food?
The IRS doesn’t discriminate when it comes to discrimination, Andrea Gibson and Kelsey Gibb launch a new website, Brazil legalized same-sex marriage and much more.
Women who inspired us, gave us a vocabulary and taught us how to be ourselves.
A DJ battle on a mountain top.
Money has a monopoly on the “surprise in the greet card” market. Shake things up a little bit and give a card that grows into a plant.
Kelsey’s a Chicago-based musician and rising star. She has a free EP that every pop lover needs to download.
“Stef: I don’t know how but somehow Rachel managed to find one X Files episode with lesbians in it.”
“I feel like Hitachi is to vibrators as Dyson is to vacuum cleaners. There just isn’t one more powerful. So if you like vibrators, you should have one.”
If you don’t know about Sparrowhawks then you’re in for a treat.
If you need to drown your sorrows about not going to A-camp, I pinky swear these chocolate peanut butter cookie dough s’more cupcakes will do the trick.
Julie wants me to say, “Nothing brings you to comedy.” I guess she means, we were always funny and attracted to funny people so that’s why we are here. And that it wasn’t necessarily a choice. We were born this way. Now she wants me to say, “YES BITCHES, BRANDY WAS BORN THAT WAY.”
Making merit badges is significantly easier than earning them.
Word has quickly spread on the web in the last week or so that Rachel Ivey, a member of the Deep Green Resistance environmentalist movement that holds openly transphobic views as “core” principles, is putting together a speaking tour consisting of a few relatively high profile events in June and July.
“I did extremely well in any video games with dating elements, like Persona 4, but virtual dating and real dating are two very different things. I could master playing as someone else, but as the old cliché of dating advice often goes, I needed to be myself.”
Just in time for summer! HOODIES! Hoodies everywhere. Soft super-cute hoodies in two colors (concrete and cardinal red) and unisex sizes!
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you daikon, make your own holiday!
Jillian made me want to run away to a farm. Specifically her farm, in Kansas. I think you might feel the same way once you’ve read this interview.
This week on NSFW Sunday: how to flirt, how to spank, how to have a lesbian affair if you live in the 1920s and more.
Get it? Coming out? Ugh.