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.
Jennifer Beals Plays Character Other Than Bette Porter in New Webseries, “Lauren”
Hansen’s Team Pick: Jennifer Beals! There. I have your attention.
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.
Julie and Brandy Do the Olympics: Gymnastics, Bikini Volleyball, and Synchronized Slapfights
Drunk Olympic Musings.
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.
Playlist: So You’re Panicking About Graduate School
WHAT? I’M NOT NERVOUS ABOUT TAKING THE GRE TOMORROW. I’M NOT!
Patti Smith Reads Her Poems To You, Makes You Swoon
Crystal’s Team Pick: “Everyone loves poetry and also Patti Smith” – Laneia
Fresh Meat, Crispay: Get To Know Your Newest Contributing Editors
Exciting new faces to meet and greet!
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?
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.
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.
It’s Alex’s Mindblowing “Call Your Girlfriend” Dance Video! Also, More Fundraising Updates!
It’s Alex Vega’s “Call Your Girlfriend” Dance Video, as promised, plus heaps of important fundraising campaign updates!
A Year of Grieving: 10 Things I’ve Learned
My best friend died one year ago today.
Pretty Little Liars Recap 309: The Lesbian Crying Game
Emily cries in this episode a lot but I promise it’s not your fault.
Here’s Twenty Five Megan Rapinoe Gifs Because We Love You
Best thing about the Olympics: Megan Rapinoe gifs.
Paul Ryan: GOP Darling, Romney’s Running Mate, and Terrifying VP Prospect
Mittsy’s new running mate is “thrilling,” “intellectual,” “a firebrand,” and also a regressionist who wants to take America back to 1932.
Get Baked: Roasted Beet and Goat Cheese Salad
King of salads.
Playlist: Tiny Songs For Your Sleepy Brain
For sipping your coffee and waiting for the sleep cloud to dissipate.
Real L Word 305 Recap: I Wasn’t Expecting This To Be So Bitchy
This week on The Real L Word, everybody went to Dinah Shore and talked about each other to each other!
Breaking: Miley Cyrus Gets Alternative Lifestyle Haircut, is Probably Still Not Gay
MIley Cyrus just joined the alternative lifestyle haircut club.