Never Have I Ever Reviewed a Queer iOS App
What if you’re feeling fancy and/or just don’t want to think up things you’ve never done? There’s an app for that! Meet Gay Never Have I Ever for iPhone and iPad.
Your Weekend iOS 7 Guide and Feelings Atrium
Verdict: iOS 7 is sexy.
OPEN THREAD: Coming Out In The Sciences, Let’s Discuss!
Often, we feel we have to keep our science self and our queer self separate, but this is the perfect space to merge them. Let’s talk about coming out in the science fields!
Special Autostraddle Fallen London Access Codes In This Post!
Run, don’t walk, to our special Autostraddle Fallen London in-game goodies codes and the chance to learn a bit more about Failbetter’s new game, Sunless Sea.
Queered Science: Why Social Justice and STEM Fields Should Hang Out More Often
“There is no space for subjects that could be classified as social, like talking about inequalities. Of course, this is a false differentiation, because there is really no way to entirely separate the two — social dynamics are just as important as technical abilities.”
DC Hires an Openly Gay Writer for Batwoman to Appease Audiences
Its certainly been one hell of a week for DC’s PR team. (Emphasis on hell.)
The Science and Technology Of Making (And Breaking) Things By Hand
Technology helps artists and artisans, whether it’s in a new way to think about or talk about their work or in a new way to create something classic. Sometimes it helps humans deconstruct something.
Queered Science: LGBTQ Scientists and the Legend of the Unicorn
“Now tell me the name of a queer scientist. Nothing? Yeah, I thought so. But it’s not your fault – I couldn’t think of any either. And this got me to thinking: where are all the queer scientists?”
Batwoman Creative Team Quits After DC Editors Prohibit Planned Lesbian Marriage
“With their decision to prohibit not only Batwoman’s marriage, but also several other character developments, it seems like DC has gone too far.”
Badass Lady Astronaut Candidates: Meet NASA’s Class of 2013
Selected from a pool of over 6,100 candidates, NASA picked some incredibly impressive individuals. In this totally biased writer’s opinion, the women especially are killing it.
Four Ways to Learn a New Language With Your Tech
So many ways to get your language learning on! Enjoy, queermos. Et bonne chance!
Magical Girls, Heroines and Anime Amazons: Field Notes from Otakon 2013
The East Coast’s largest anime convention had everything an anime fan could want, including some interesting conversations about representation of women in anime.
This Is A Bubbline Appreciation Post and Gallery
I would rather slowly pull out all my teeth than write about unconfirmed lesbian subtext in any teevee show ever. But I actually think we’re moving from the realm of wishful thinking into the realm of actual plot/canon. Here’s why.
GaymerX Is The Gaming Convention Made For Queers, But Important For Everyone
They had to show gamers why something like this needed to exist. More than that, they had to show the world why something like this needed to exist.
Queer Your Tech: Why I’m Addicted to Fallen London!
Fallen London! is a text based game that centers around a protagonist (you) who winds up in Neath, which is basically London except one mile under the earth’s surface, in a world where death is semi-permanent, devils are accessible and corpses sometimes have tea with you.
Archie Comics Gets Its First Gay Kiss, Takes On One Million Moms
Which isn’t a big deal, but also totally is.
When You Wish Upon a Star: Throw Yourself a Perseids Party
In your childhood, did your mom wake up you at weird hours on school nights to watch meteor showers because they were more important than 2nd grade? Or was that just my mom? Either way, we’re all now Adults and we can get up (or stay up) to watch the meteor shower of our own volition.
Looking for a Sci Fi, Fantasy, Inter-Dimensional Queer Comic? “Decrypting Rita” is Your Answer
Even though we’re dealing with robots, dragons and multiple dimensions, Decrypting Rita is fundamentally about queer nerds.
Three Cheers for Online Community With Amy T. Falcone, Queer Webcomic Artist
Falcone has a new comic forthcoming, called Clique Refresh, and it’s “a love letter to internet friends and what it means to feel most at home online.”
Why Does My Identity Require Turning SafeSearch On?: “Lesbians” vs. Pornography
Now that I’m older, it weirds me out that an internet search on lesbian + anything turns up with porn. Massive amounts of it. And most of the stuff that comes up is terrible. Why does the internet equate “lesbian” with “explicit sex”?