Artist Spotlight: Alabama Shakes
“I just had a significant experience. This woman who I have never seen before let me into the fire of her body.”
Playlist: 13 Degrees of Sleater-Kinney
From ragged riot grrrl roots to Portlandia, we pay homage to the late, great Sleater-Kinney.
For The Love of Graham Crackers
Six sinfully good recipes made from history’s most innocent cracker.
Pretty Little Liars 218 Recap: A Kiss Before Lying and Smoking Drugs With Miles Davis
This week on Pretty Little Liars, a lesbian couple made out on an actual bed!
Art Attack Gallery: 100 Queer Women Artists In Your Face
100 works of art by 100 queer artists to kick off Art Attack month. Representative of many medias and many nations and many brains.
“Cult Classic of Taiwanese Lesbian Literature” Now Excerpted In English, Available Online
Rachel’s Team Pick: “My prototype of a woman was the type who would appear in hallucinations at the last moments of your freezing to death at the top of an icy mountain, a mythical beauty who blurred the line between dreams and reality.”
17 Things on My Computer That You Need Too
These 17 things will make you well more than 17% saner if you download them. I’d venture to say 170%!
VIDEO: Autostraddle’s 2012 Calendar Release Party in LA
No one passed out, spilled a drink, or slapped anyone else’s girlfriend, so it was a very successful night.
Come Out to See Track Meet: A Girl Meets Girl Story in NYC!
You helped fund the queer indie film, “Track Meet.” Now that the film is finished, all Autostraddlers are welcome to attend its NYC screening!
My Drunk Kitchen 202: Hannah Hart Cooks Vegan, Is After Your Heart
Hannah Hart makes lesbian jokes, cooks vegan cheesecake, and drinks whiskey. As if you didn’t love her before.
We Don’t Need No Education (That Doesn’t Recognize Queer Identities)
“You learn, through how you live your body in the world, how power operates and how institutions reproduce oppressive forms of normativity.”
This Is a Video of Kristen Bell With a Sloth
Intern Grace’s Team Pick: This video will make you laugh awkwardly in a public place. Watch it immediately.
Allison Weiss: The Autostraddle Interview
Musician Allison Weiss talked to Autostraddle and ate a loaf of white bread one slice at a time. It doesn’t get more down-to-earth than that.
Music Fix: M.I.A, Ladyhawke, The Kills, Sleigh Bells & More
It’s a new tour dates / albums / video extravaganza!
Gender Blender: An Intimate Film About Life Outside The Binary
“I am a third gender,” the film’s website proclaims in Lubin’s voice. “I exist outside of the binary definition of gender. This is my story.”
I Wanna Ride My Bicycle
And the Alliance for Biking and Walking wants me to, too.
10 Badass Yet Toxic Best Friends: TV & Film’s Hottest Troublemakers
“So I started hanging out with Rayanne Graff. Just for fun. Just cause it seemed like if I didn’t, I would die or something. Things were getting to me. Just how people are.”
Also.Also.Also: Who Wants Us To Get Gay Married Today?
71% of college freshman think it’s okay for us to get married, some lady marries a building, Newt Gingrich is a douchebag, these two Annas have a cute wedding video and so much more!
Obama Calls for Public Housing for All, Queers and Trans People Included
Did you know that one in five trans people does not have stable housing? Obama’s administration does!
Playlist: Music For Writing With Your Heart Split Open
Here’s the situation: you have a lot of feelings and you have a keyboard or a notebook and your ears are lonely.