Results for: Feel good
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Kelsey’s 5 Steps to Coping with Unemployment
It’s a really hard life being unemployed. Here are some of the ways that I cope.
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How I Survived My First Thanksgiving as an Out Vegan Lesbian
Canadian Thanksgiving happened on October 11, which means that Carolyn and all the other Canadians have already experienced the joys of family togetherness. Lucky for you, she documented the whole thing. Recipes included!
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How to Make Gay Friends and Meet Girls: The Ultimate Guide to Effective Queer Socializing
The definitive answer so we never have to answer again: how the hell do you meet other girls who like girls? BRING OUT YER LESBIANS.
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Don’t Want To Be Part of the Problem: A Field Guide to Airborne Homophobia
Is it possible to be a radical queer feminist and still overhear conversations, maintain friendships and interact in public with unradical non-queers, without screaming at everyone or compromising your identity? A case study.
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If Perez Hilton Wants to Save Gay Teens from Gay Bullies, He Should Quit Being a Misogynistic Gay Bully
Be the change you want to see in the world, Perez Hilton.
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Coming Out at Work: What a Way To Make a Living
Thinking about coming out to your boss and co-workers? Here’s a little advice from someone who’s done it a few times.
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Autostraddle’s Swimsuit Issue: Butches, Bois, Femmes, Dykes, Grrrls and Otherwise-Identified Beachgoers
Swimsuit makers don’t care about gay people. Luckily, we do! And so do a lot of other people, actually — guest bloggers on this swimsuit spectacular include Queer Fat Femme, Fit For a Femme and Brandy Howard from “In Your Box Office”.
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Period 101: Toxic Shock Station
In which we revolutionize the way you menstruate and, happiest of all, STICK IT TO THE MAN!
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I’m With You In Rockland As Long As You’re Seeing HOWL There
In which Rachel discusses why she needs to see HOWL right now. “When I was seventeen I went to San Francisco to read poetry. Or maybe I went because I’d already read poetry.”
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Everyone Wants to Get to San Francisco: A ‘Travel Guide’
Are you going to San Francisco? We did.
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Real L Word Needs Lesbian Executive Realness, Context, Depth: How We’d Fix It
The Real L Word could’ve been a much better show. Here’s why it failed, and why there might be hope for The Little Chicken That Couldn’t.
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Judith Butler 101: One Is Not Born a Queer Theorist, One Becomes One
Did you wake up today feeling a little too sure that you understood the relationship between sex and gender? No fear, Autostraddle is here! Guest writer Julia is here to learn you all about Judith Butler, and to make you feel smarter than you have all day.
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12 Rules of Lesbian Fight Club: How to Properly Argue with Your Girlfriend
Can you argue right? We have twelve rules that say you can. No biting!
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Televisionary Q&A: How “Real” is “The Real L Word”?
I’ve got some questions about “The Real L Word.” So I tracked down a veteran reality TV editor and established fan of reality teevee programs to get the scoop on how scenes get constructed, what makes TRLW different than other shows, the Theory of the Dogs, “Frakenbiting,” who controls the “stories” being told and other supreme secrets of editorial magic!
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Romi Tells Us What It’s Like to Be in Real L Word’s Lesbian Strap-On Sex Scene
Did Showtime cross a line by showing Whitney & Romi having Real Lesbian Strap-on Sex on The Real L Word this week? We contacted Romi Klinger for an official statement on the episode to share her side of the story.
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Read a F*cking Book: Ten Lesbian & Bisexual Poets To Fall in Love With
You probably don’t read enough poetry and you would probably be smarter if you did.
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Eat Pray Love Won’t Teach You How to Be Alone (or, “First Try to See Something, Anything Else”)
We all come across approximately infinite poorly written, ill-researched, patriarchal and offensive things on the internet each day; most of the time, we can let them slide with a shake of the head. Sometimes, though, you can’t. And that’s when you stop being polite and start getting real about youtube, (specifically Tanya Davis’s “How To Be Alone,”) Eat Pray Love, and dbags.
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Kristin Chenoweth is Popular and Possibly Perfect: The Auto-Interview
Kristin Chenoweth talks to Autostraddle about the response to her Newsweek piece, returning to Glee with Idina Menzel, her brand new ensemble TV project, Promises Promises, her strong Christian beliefs and why she knows Jesus would be totally pro-equality and a friend to the gays.
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How to Date Girls: 10 Simple Rules for Properly Courting a Lesbian
Have you gotten over the giant hurdle of learning how to meet people/women? Are you now faced with the enormous task of convincing those people/women to stick around — properly? Lesbians have failed at romance long enough, it’s time you learn how to do it up right. We’ve got a post for that!
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28 Docs Later You’ll Be A Better Person, Just Watch
Autostraddle has a serious soft spot for documentaries, and we want to give you the same. Here’s the official Autostraddle list of the documentary films everyone should see before they die.