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Literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Your New Biweekly Guide To Queer Lady Literature

Welcome to the inaugural Lez Liberty Lit post, a column where we tell you things about books that will make your brain smarter, better, faster, stronger.

Ryan Yates August 16, 2012 18 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Many People Support Gender Non-Conforming Children and Other Stories We Missed This Week

If I pitch my tent here will a bear eat me?

Carmen August 16, 2012 21 Comments
Music

Your Favourite Queer Artists Will Play Phasefest 2012

The Phasefest 2012 lineup has been announced! See The Lost Bois. Clinical Trials, Mitten, People At Parties, Hunter Valentine, Bitch and more.

Crystal August 16, 2012 2 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Read a F*cking Canadian Book, Eh: Shani Mootoo’s “Cereus Blooms at Night”

“We sat reading on the rooftop for hours, only stopping when the sound of a train drowned out our voices.”

Malaika August 16, 2012 12 Comments
First Person Gender

Femmes: Beyond Lipstick (and Heels and Dresses)

Sometimes you just want a role model.

Kristen August 16, 2012 257 Comments
Music

Peaches and Friends Rock Out For Pussy Riot and Your Enjoyment

Rachel’s Team Pick: In honor of both Pussy Riot and Peaches, please do something punk rock today.

Rachel August 16, 2012 4 Comments
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Family Business: How To Break Up With Your Ex’s Family, Too

You were never just dating a cute woman. You were dating a cute woman who is also someone’s daughter, granddaughter, bubeleh, mija, etc.

fonseca August 15, 2012 42 Comments
Society + Culture

Pastor Who Helped Lisa Miller Found Guilty, But Miller Still On the Run

The pastor who helped ex-gay Lisa Miller kidnap her daughter and flee the country was convicted, but Lisa Miller and her daughter still haven’t been located.

Rachel August 15, 2012 12 Comments
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

This is a Kristen Stewart Jodie Foster Feelings Atrium Post

Today, Jodie Foster published an essay in The Daily Beast about how everybody should lay off Kristen Stewart regarding her torrid affair with Rupert Sanders. Please share your feelings on this crucial groundbreaking news item with us.

Laneia August 15, 2012 85 Comments
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Autostraddle’s Get Baked Sale!

It’s your last day to order homemade cookies and treats from our fundraiser! Snickerdoodles, butter cookies, oatmeal shenanigans, Oreo situations — they’re all here, and all made with love.

Laneia August 15, 2012 55 Comments
TV News & Trailers

Jennifer Beals Plays Character Other Than Bette Porter in New Webseries, “Lauren”

Hansen’s Team Pick: Jennifer Beals! There. I have your attention.

Hansen August 15, 2012 18 Comments
The Scene Travel

Queer Girl City Guide: Sydney, Australia

After a four-year stint in Autostraddle’s top American lesbianish city, I thought I had developed impossibly high expectations for every future place I’d inhabit. Then I found Sydney.

Jen August 15, 2012 47 Comments
Sports

Julie and Brandy Do the Olympics: Gymnastics, Bikini Volleyball, and Synchronized Slapfights

Drunk Olympic Musings.

julie and brandy August 14, 2012 17 Comments
Politics + Activism

Saudi Arabia’s Working Women Propose Their Own City Because They’re Tired of Waiting

If you can’t beat ’em, move out and show ’em they fucked up. And maybe it will work.

Carmen August 14, 2012 31 Comments
Playlists

Playlist: So You’re Panicking About Graduate School

WHAT? I’M NOT NERVOUS ABOUT TAKING THE GRE TOMORROW. I’M NOT!

A.E. Osworth August 14, 2012 49 Comments
Book Features

Patti Smith Reads Her Poems To You, Makes You Swoon

Crystal’s Team Pick: “Everyone loves poetry and also Patti Smith” – Laneia

Crystal August 14, 2012 4 Comments
Community

Fresh Meat, Crispay: Get To Know Your Newest Contributing Editors

Exciting new faces to meet and greet!

the team August 14, 2012 96 Comments
The Scene

Free Pussy Riot! Public Reading at NYC’s Ace Hotel

Considering Chloe Sevigny, Justin Vivian Bond and Eileen Myles are already scheduled to read at this free event, I assume I’ll being seeing you there?

Jamie J. Hagen August 14, 2012 5 Comments
Music

Spice Up Your Life: The Olympics Closing Ceremonies Remind Us Girl Power Is Forever

The closing ceremony for the 2012 Olympics happened last night, and all I really really want is to talk about the Spice Girls.

Vanessa August 14, 2012 61 Comments
Sports

2012 London Olympics Round-Up: End of the Gold Brick Road

The USWNT win gold. So do some other people. This might be your last chance to spew Olympics feelings for a while so get it all out.

Brittani August 13, 2012 70 Comments
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