Playlist: 10 Lyrics to Help Your #BlackGirlMagic Shine
Maintaining your #BlackGirlMagic can be a struggle, but these tracks will help you maintain your daily practice.
Maintaining your #BlackGirlMagic can be a struggle, but these tracks will help you maintain your daily practice.
The snakes have boobs! The weird bird people have butts! The horse uses the mountains as a blanket! The video for “Hang On to the Night” has it all!
Outside Lands is magical and full of lots of happy faces. Here’s what I saw.
“Dear Editor: You are cordially invited to have brunch with country music icon Dolly Parton this Sunday, August 7th.”
“We wanted to tell a story, but rather than tell it in one frame, we divided the video into multiple parallel characters with both reality and fantasy, like a choose-your-own-adventure novel.”
Are you looking to listen to an absolutely great pop song while crying because you’re so happy and hopeful today?
“BWU” shows the part that comes after figuring out marriage isn’t what you want: finding partners who are on the same page.
How is it possible that a queer woman who came in second place on NBC’s mega-smash-hit The Voice could, three years later, still be unknown? The short answer is that before Michelle Chamuel could fully tell the world who she is, she had to figure it out herself.
Mary Lambert has given us a gift at the end of this wretched week.
Made by an all-queer cast and crew – you might recognize a couple of familiar faces.
These songs are essentially our generation’s “feel a little poke coming through” in “Too Close” by Next.
This playlist accompanies all of the feelings I have being queer in suburbia: gay, lonely, bored, and confused by my neighbors’ dedications to their lawns.
“I can’t be scared that someone will stop listening to my music, or that parents might not want their kids listening to me because of the fact that I want to love whoever I want to love.”
There’s no better distraction than music to keep your heart and hands from sending a message you might regret.
This one’s for all whose hearts are still on the mountain.
Super bummer songs: a way to externalize how shitty you feel without having to use your words!
It takes hard work to maintain any partnership — whether it’s between lovers or friends or the person you shared a uterus with.
Just because you aren’t on the Mountain right now doesn’t mean you can’t be a part of your very own music and magic making group of friends. I promise you won’t regret it.
Autostraddle has been around for SEVEN years, and we’ve been making playlists that whole damn time!
“Gender self-determination is vital and I can feel great about who I am when I am at home. But I live a life where I engage with other people and doing what feels good for me is a lot more challenging when I step outside the door. With pronouns specifically, it’s hard not to feel like you are dependent on others to ‘validate’ your gender, or rather, it’s hard not to feel like your gender is not valid when people use the wrong pronoun.”