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.
Movie Night: Josie and the Pussycats
It’s okay to sing along. It’s also okay not to.
Get Baked: Winter Kale Salad
Because sometimes a giant bowl of cold kale doesn’t sound that good.
Birds of Prey Reboot Features Potential Lesbian, Is Also Potentially Problematic
DC’s comic book series, “Birds of Prey,” has a hard-hitting, whiskey-swilling, Betty Page-lookalike who miiiight also be a lesbian. WHAT.
I’m from Driftwood Shares Black LGBT Stories Online and in NYC This Week
Check out the Black Community Spotlight at Gallery Bar on Tuesday, Jan. 31st if you’re in NYC, and online if you’re not!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Will Never Use Bacon Lube
This week in NSFW lesbosexyness: orgasms, online dating, top feminist porn films, and, um, bacon lube.
Sunday Funday is Good News for Gays and a Total G
What are your plans today? I’m spending the day inside cleaning and might order myself a pizza as a gift and do affirmations while eating it.
Autostraddle Live!: Come See Me Talk About Sex at Yale For Sex Week
Sex Week 2012 is a thing and I’m gonna be there, you should come. Get it?!?! COME?!?!!!
The Topp Twins Are Wickedly Talented Lesbians, Now in Documentary Form
Twins who can harmonize and also wear a mean mustache.
Call For Submissions: What We Talk About When We Talk About ART
February will be ART ATTACK month at Autostraddle. If you’re a writer or an artist with ideas on this topic, you should read this post.
Women’s Boxing Lands in the London Games for Equal-Opportunity Punching
Women’s Boxing will debut at the 2012 Olympics after 109 years, making it one of the last sports to join its male counterpart.