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.
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.
The Comment Awards Are Feeling Campy
Cyborgs, Adam Lambert, camp dreams and more!
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
Brittani’s Video Party: The Return of Television
DeAnne Smith on the teevee, Arrested Development, Brooklyn 99, and gas station karaoke party it up.