Results for: women of colour
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Monday Roundtable: Say My Name
“The thing is, if the people in your life respect you, they’ll give you the space to figure out where you’re comfortable. It’s YOUR name. You’re the person who has deal with it every second of your life.”
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Indian Web Series “The Other Love Story” Gives Queer Women A Happy Ending
“The Other Love Story was such a breath of fresh air in many ways. Aadya and Aachal felt like any other regular person: they were not coded Butch or Femme, like too many of these stories tend to do, and neither were overly Westernized nor overly exotified. They just were.”
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Judging Tonya
“By the end of the 1994 Winter Olympics, I was 12 years old and quite certain I’d picked the right side.”
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8 Lesbian BDSM Novels to Curl Your Toes (and Maybe Melt Your Heart)
Spend an evening with a good book and a paddle.
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Holigay Gift Guide: Trusting Gender Traitors Is Never Dangerous
Take your gender treachery to the next level with these gifts for watching, reading, playing, and giving.
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Australia Says YES to Marriage Equality
“Marriage is one thing – it’s just the tip of the iceberg of true equality,” says Cake Tin, bringing up trans people, intersex people, Indigenous people, and people of color. “It isn’t over yet.”
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Trans Model Munroe Bergdorf Is Now the Face of Illamasqua, Actual Champions of Diversity
Bergdorf was recently fired by L’Oreal over a Facebook post about white supremacy.
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 45, April 2018
“wait there are nipples on shutterstock??”
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2017’s 18 Best Episodes of Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans TV
These were entire TV episodes that paid off queer storylines that had been building, or approached lesbian and bisexual and trans stuff in ways we’ve never really seen on-screen, or expanded queer storytelling into genres where it’d been lacking, or utilized new TV platforms in queer ways.
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Sunday Funday Is Giving Free Puppy Access to ALL!
YouTube channels, homes for homeless LGBT youth, puppies, engagement, feminism and more!!
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9 Lesbian Romance Audiobooks To Warm Your Heart On Chilly Nights
Looking to listen to some lesbian romance as you travel (or don’t) this week? Need to take a break from it all and escape into your headphones? Here are the 9 lesbian romance audiobooks you’ve been waiting for!
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Anti-LGBTQ Hate Crime Soars in the UK
One in five lesbians and one in six bisexual women have experienced a hate crime in the last twelve months.
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Vivek Shraya’s New Album “Part-Time Woman” Is a Binary-Breaking Love Letter
Shraya’s lyrics tease apart the ways in which trans girls’ emotional lives are drawings rendered in chiaroscuro, the play of light and shadow: The power and relief of discovering one’s identity in private intertwined with the pain of objectification and sexual violence.
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Monday Roundtable: Feels Like the First Time
Here are first time experiences that seem mundane to everyone else but were truly special for us.
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Roundtable: Our Long and Winding Career Paths
“When I was 10, I wrote a letter to Disney asking them what I should do to become an imagineer.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Queer Hairdresser Klara Vanova on Trust and Community
In this month’s Follow Your Arrow, Klara shares the story of her gender-neutral barbershop business, how she made the leap from office-worker to sole-trader, and the importance of building trust in the community she serves.
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How to Become a Deadly Misandrist Fairy Vampire
Even one cauldron full of blood is one cauldron we didn’t have before!
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Follow Your Arrow: Bluestockings Boutique Owner Jeanna Kadlec on LGBT Lingerie
“In business, especially when starting out, you need to be able to embrace risk with open arms, which is a nice way of saying you have no idea how to swim but are jumping in the deep end anyway.”
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Sara Quin, Ruby Tandoh and Others Share Their Mental Health Stories in “Do What You Want” Zine
“With a strong intersectional focus, this is a zine about mental health for all people, in all walks of life. We believe that mental health care and support should be a right for all.”
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Follow Your Arrow: “Great British Bake Off” Star Ruby Tandoh Shares Her Love of Food
“I wish there were more LGBTQ food writers, though — it can be a pretty stiflingly traditional (read: heteronormative, and very white) world. Find a network of like-minded queer women to work with, seek advice from and befriend! We gotta stick together.”