Artist Spotlight: Wallis Bird
Wallis Bird released her debut album Spoons to critical acclaim back in 2007 and has been on the rise ever since.
Closet Door Is Gay Boxer Orlando Cruz’s Tenth Knockout
“I’ve been fighting for more than 24 years and as I continue my ascendant career, I want to be true to myself . . . I have and will always be a proud Puerto Rican. I have always been and always will be a proud gay man.”
Oh, That’s Where Babies Come From
Kristen’s Team Pick: Here’s your daily Aww.
The Comment Awards Are Leaning Seductively In Your Direction
The only place where you can win awards for talking about bad Glee fashion and getting arrested by Sarah Croce.
Now Casting: Autostraddle’s 2014 Calendar Girls
Have you always wanted to grace the pages of an Autostraddle Calendar? Now’s your chance to apply!
New Poll Shows Latino/a Voters Largely Support Gay Marriage, Unfortunately for GOP
But is this really all that big of a shift?
Things I Read That I Love #44: Screaming Sounds
Topics include Harriet the Spy, bipolar disorder, Jerry Sandusky, promiscuous reading, rock criticism, right-wing podcasts and online dating!
Get Baked: Carrot Ginger Soup
Words cannot describe how easy this soup is, because it actually takes more effort to describe than to make.
Lez Liberty Lit #4: I Kept Always Two Books In My Pocket
This week in lit: banned books, Vagina, and lots of lesbian storylines.
GChatting For Freedom: The First Presidential Debate
“I’m going to live my whole life and die right here in front of my laptop while Romney talks.”
Read Banned Books, Be The Revolution
Banned Books Week is like Christmas for me: it allows me to queer my reading like I queer my gender. Party hard with some inappropriate reading!
International Autostraddle Meet-Up Weeks: You’ve Earned It
We want to hang out. Like, a lot.
PSAs Aim To Prepare Citizens Who Are “Voting While Trans”
Vanessa’s Team Pick: More than 25,000 transgender American citizens may face stiff barriers to voting in the November 2012 election; the National Center for Transgender Equality wants to change that.
A Custom Fit: Container Gardening
Take everything you know — or don’t know — about gardening and put it in a bunch of neat containers all over the place!
New Guidelines Make Binational Gay Couple Deportation “Low Priority,” But Not “Non-Priority”
The Department of Homeland Security has now drafted up written guidelines for binational and immigrant same-sex couples and families to now be considered “low-priority” in deportation cases.
You’re Not Wasting Time: Looking At Baby Animals Helps Productivity
Did we really need a study to tell us that looking at pictures of cute animals improves our lives?
You Should Go: The Queer Women of Color Poetry Revival Is Finally Here
I promised you a revival. And now it’s here.
“The Four 2012” Marriage Equality Ads: All The Feelings
Ali’s Team Pick: This November, four states have marriage equality on the ballot: Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington. Here’s an ad straight from Maine, the first of a four-part series.
VIDEO – The Premiere Is Here: Unicorn Plan-It Episode 201 “And So It Is”
Unicorn Plan-It grows up and gets big: it’s Season Two and a whole new ballgame.
Read a F*cking Canadian Book, Eh: Alex Leslie’s “People Who Disappear”
Leslie’s stories speak to my top interests in life: gay women, the environment, and Canada.