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First Person Geekery Issues

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.”

Monica May 20, 2013 27 Comments
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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!

Alex May 20, 2013 33 Comments
Food Lists

Ode to My Pantry: Daikonura!

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you daikon, make your own holiday!

Kristen May 20, 2013 12 Comments
Community

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.

Vanessa May 20, 2013 40 Comments
NSFW Sunday

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.

Ryan Yates May 19, 2013 16 Comments
Society + Culture

Sunday Funday Is Comin’ Out Round the Mountain

Get it? Coming out? Ugh.

Carmen May 19, 2013 7 Comments
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

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.”

Riese May 18, 2013 58 Comments
Society + Culture

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.

Rose May 18, 2013 24 Comments
Geekery

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.

A.E. Osworth May 18, 2013 11 Comments
First Person

Butch Please: A Letter to Baby Butches

I have every faith in you, baby butch. I know you will be careful with this word and its legacy. It looks like a badge but it feels like a battleaxe, and I need you to know that it’s five times as difficult to earn and ten million times more dangerous.

Kate May 17, 2013 72 Comments
Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Feeling Campy

Cyborgs, Adam Lambert, camp dreams and more!

carrie May 17, 2013 6 Comments
Love + Sex

Five Solo Crash Pad Scenes For Masturbation Month

I like to call this meta-masturbation. Touch yourself to scenes of people touching themselves. Happy Masturbation Month!

A.E. Osworth May 17, 2013 11 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit #20: Remember Library Lesbianism

An excerpt from Michelle Tea’s new novel, chicken lit is the new chick lit, library lesbianism, sexism in publishing and more.

Ryan Yates May 17, 2013 9 Comments
Geekery

How Sailor Moon Made Me A Feminist: An Ode to Magical Girl Shows

Maybe it’s the influence of Sailor Moon that is part of what made me a feminist, someone who didn’t think that being a girl was a weakness but was, in fact, a special kind of power.

Rose May 17, 2013 94 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #76: Astro-Ride!

Topics include the Khmer Rouge, crisis pregnancy centers + race-baiting, SamRo, coffee, Little House on the Prairie, grief, growing up gay and Kevyn Aucoin!

Riese May 17, 2013 14 Comments
Geekery

Date With A Google Glasshole: Cyborg Dating 101, A Report From The Field

A true, first-hand account of a real-life ladydate with a real-life Glasshole. Let’s just say that the phrase “breakup-inducing cyborg face device” got tossed around.

taylor May 17, 2013 51 Comments
Recipes

You Can Take It With You: Blood Orange and Wheat Berry Salad

Both rule-following and improvisation have their place in this post. First course: a wheat berry salad by the book. Followed by: my own take on the recipe.

Laura May 17, 2013 4 Comments
Geekery

Team Pick: Buycott Helps You Save The World and Support Pro-Gay Companies While You Shop

Because I’m perpetually spending my last dollar and I want to know exactly where it goes.

Cara May 17, 2013 5 Comments
First Person Gender Issues

Identity Theft: A Trans* Intersex Woman On Traumas and Surgery

“It’s unfortunate, unfair and illogical that intersex people get assigned a gender and a sex and are expected to either stick with them or fix someone else’s mistake with expensive, risky surgery on their genitals.”

A. S. May 16, 2013 41 Comments
TV Reviews

Why Grey’s Anatomy’s New Story Arc Is A Pretty Big Deal

Because lesbian and bisexual characters now have longer shelf lives, network TV is beginning to go beyond the same trope-tastic story arcs.

fonseca May 16, 2013 46 Comments
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