Eleven Women of Color You Should Know and Admire
Women who inspired us, gave us a vocabulary and taught us how to be ourselves.
Playlist: Crystal and Somer’s Music Hangout
A DJ battle on a mountain top.
Grow a Little Love: Making Plantable Paper Notecards
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.
Almost Famous: Kelsey Montanez
Kelsey’s a Chicago-based musician and rising star. She has a free EP that every pop lover needs to download.
You, Too, Can Be Made Gay By The X-Files: Scully 101
“Stef: I don’t know how but somehow Rachel managed to find one X Files episode with lesbians in it.”
Anonymous Sex Toy Review: G-Chatting About The Hitachi Magic Wand
“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.”
Sparrowhawks’ New EP, ‘Wanderlust’ Is Rad (And Free)
If you don’t know about Sparrowhawks then you’re in for a treat.
Get Baked: Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Dough S’more Cupcakes
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.
Idol Worship: Ten(ish) Questions About Camp with Julie and Brandy
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.”
Make A Thing: Merit Badges
Making merit badges is significantly easier than earning them.
I’m Not A Gender Zombie and Neither Are You: Rejecting Anti-Trans Bigotry From Rachel Ivey and Deep Green Resistance
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.
Choose Your Character: I’m Peach, Not Mario
“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.”
You Need An Autostraddle Hoodie, Can Buy One Right Now
Just in time for summer! HOODIES! Hoodies everywhere. Soft super-cute hoodies in two colors (concrete and cardinal red) and unisex sizes!
Ode to My Pantry: Daikonura!
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you daikon, make your own holiday!
Straddler On The Street: Jillian
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.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Flirting For Fun
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.
Sunday Funday Is Comin’ Out Round the Mountain
Get it? Coming out? Ugh.
Zoe Saldana Bisexual: Responds With Ellipses When Asked About Prior Relationships With Women
“Promise me one thing — if you choose to [print the question “have you had a relationship with another woman?”] just put three dots as my response. That’s it.”
Sorry, Texas, But Letting Student Groups Discriminate Is Not the Same As “Religious Freedom”
To your average conservative legislator, it may seem like a good idea to let anti-gay religious or political groups choose not to have members who don’t reflect their “values.” But when it involves having students pay for their own discrimination, it’s not so simple.
Tech Spring Cleaning Part 3: Actually Literally Cleaning Your Tech
There are only two steps, to be completed on days of your choosing: 1. obtain the following materials and 2. use them on your technology. Ready. Set. Go.