The Comment Awards Are Traveling the World
Another weekly whirlwind tour of your words and ours. This week we’re going across the globe!
You Can Take It With You: Pizza Pockets
This week, we’re making the ugliest but tastiest lunch yet and talking about apps that help you shop and cook.
Queer Girl City Guide: Minneapolis, MN
“There’s this huge spoon with a cherry on it, pic op!”
Playlist: Cover Songs Are Great Part II
You probably know about Sinead’s “Nothing Compares 2 U,” but do you know about Cat Power’s “Satisfaction?”
I Just Now Saw: Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Welcome to “I Just Now Saw,” a new column in which I attempt to conduct conversations about television shows you watched ten years ago and I just now saw for the first time. First up: BUFFY!
Bomb Girls 211: Is This How Be Good Spy
This week on Bomb Girls, Gladys continues to take mystery-solving lessons from the Pretty Little Liars team, Kate and Betty plan a wedding in which they are not marrying each other, and Vera is a flawless queen who calls out bitches when she sees them.
Brittani’s Video Party: Esperanza Spalding and Sarah Croce Eat the Bling Ring
Sofia Coppola’s new film, Sarah Croce’s new web series, gay video alert, and a funny viral video about how animals eat their food.
A Prairie Homo Companion: First Nations on the Prairies
These are three of the amazing Indigenous female writers, activists, and artists I’ve been reading this week. I may not be the best person to write about Indigenous issues, but I can certainly read what I think are some of the best, educate myself, and encourage you to do the same.
How To Own It: Tassel Necklaces
Because tassels are too good to use for only boring things.
Home Sweet Homo: Meet Your Landlord
If you figure out which flavour of Shitty Landlord is cashing your rent cheques, you might survive long enough to renew your lease!
Freezing My Assets: On Transitioning and Wanting To Be A Mom One Day Too
“He was about to break the news that I would never have a child of my own, and nothing else had ever made it so clear that I wanted one. I really, really wanted one.”
Get Baked Live-Blog: My Mum’s “World’s Best” Lasagne
“My mother is visiting Sydney and saw an opportunity to school me in the ways of the world’s best lasagne. She’s standing in my kitchen as I type.”
VIDEO: SNL’s Top Lez Kate McKinnon Does Ellen Impersonation On Ellen
The dancing is especially cute.
Also.Also.Also: k.d. lang Loves Canada, Is Famous and Other Stories We Missed This Week
I Don’t Do Boxes, but if you wanna go to Corgi Nation that’s fine with me.
Almost Famous: Jana Fisher
A NYC-based lyrical pop artist who’s “a good girl everywhere but at the piano”.
Get Baked: Vegan Empanada Battle Royale
Sweet mother of God there sure are a bunch of empanada recipes in here.
VIDEO: Hitler Reacts to “Lost Girl” Finale
“What do they think is going to happen online? They’re fucked! Especially when everything after 3.07 was such a mess. So many storylines were presented! I will leave a comment on the Showcase blog!”
Playlist: ’90s Slumber Party
I can’t remember anything about slumber parties better than the music we listened to, usually on a scratched CD.
VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Beth Ditto Being Fabulous at the GLAAD Awards LA 2013
Exclusive video of Beth Ditto not reading off a prompter at the LA GLAAD Awards “because I’m not good at doing what I’m told.” Instead she kicks ass, takes names, and is perfect.
Amber Dawn’s Memoir, “How Poetry Saved My Life”: The Autostraddle Interview
“How Poetry Saved My Life” tells Dawn’s story of sex-work and survivorship through poetry and prose. We spoke with her about this latest work, queer writers and speculative fiction.