Results for: be the change
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17 Bisexual Women TV Characters Who Thwarted Tropes and Won Your Hearts
Sometimes, on a rare harvest moon when the mermaids sing and the unicorns take flight, we’re treated to really authentic, layered, swoon-worthy portrayals of bisexual women on our favorite shows.
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Lesbian and Bisexual Women of History Who Were Obsessed With Their Dogs, Part 3
Eleanor Roosevelt, Frida Kahlo, Naomi “Micky” Jacob, Elsie de Wolfe and Elisabeth Marbury — and their puppers!
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8 Feel-Good, Comfort Reads Featuring Lesbians of Color
Here are eight light-hearted books featuring queer women (mostly lesbian) characters of color. Some are YA, some are romance, and one is science fiction/fantasy. All are fluffy gay goodness!
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20 Movies About Friendship and Misandry For When You Want to Burn it All Down
Just some gal pals who righteously and gleefully killed their predators, who ruined powerful men’s lives and careers.
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Your Hot Wet XXX Summer: 2018 Queer Porn Preview
All the glittery heart-driven DIY gay, lesbian, trans, and queer porn to watch right now.
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The 5 Cookbooks by Women I Couldn’t Live Without
These are full of scribbled notes, neon “make me next” tabs, oil drips, crinkled pages and most of all, recipes that I adore. They’ve brought immense amounts of joy into my life by way of conversations over dinner and memories made while cooking with people I love, and they all contribute to making me a better, happier cook day by day.
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20 Happy Lesbian and Bisexual Romantic TV Storylines That’ll Warm Your Heart Right Up
I like to power up my spirit by swooning at the TV. Maybe you do too?
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100 of My Favorite Poets For Your Survival Pack
In an unsafe world, we have to make our own survival packs. Carry the words of these 100 fierce poets in yours.
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13 Ways to Be a Good Woman, According to the Bible
“I derailed Bible study tonight and Pastor Daniel ended up delivering a lecture about the danger of Britney Spears; specifically, Crossroads. He said she’s scandalous.”
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Six Tips for Dealing with Your Difficult Family Members Over the Holidays
I’m sharing tips and techniques that have been useful to me in the face of conflict for those of you who’ll need to advocate for yourselves in difficult conversations and fight the good fight this holiday season. We can do this. Hopefully one day we won’t have to.
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Read These 10 Books with Queer Witches
Queers and witches just go together.
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9 Ways Being a Junior Developer Is Like Being a Baby Gay
You’re almost too gay to write a function.
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9 Sex-Life-Changing Tips From “Girl Sex 101”
If you only plan to read one book about sex, ever, make it Girl Sex 101.
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Gay Hairplay: Top 11 Times a Girl Touched Another Girl’s Hair on TV and Film
Lesbian and bisexual gal pals caressing each other’s hair on TV and in movies has gotten a bad rap, probably because that’s what most fictional queer women have historically done instead of kissing on the mouth. But hairplay can also be really sexy!
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Self-Acceptance & Butt Cover-Ups: 8 Queer Women’s Tattoo Stories
I talked to several smart, artistic, and wonderful inked-up queers in my life about what inspired their body art.
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8 Soft Femme Memoirs for Your Femme But Not Too Femmey Needs
The following eight memoirs, which deal with gender, food, writing, relationships and more, reflect soft femmes, tomboy femmes, chapstick femmes, and other femmes who aren’t all that femmey.
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28 Autostraddle Stories That Were Honestly Really Good in 2017
Did you read these 28 posts in 2017? Because if not, you should really fix that right away!
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The Top 11 Gayest Christmas Songs
Ring-a-ling-a-ling-a-#dingdong-ding!
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5 Ways To Fight Back Against Seasonal Affective Disorder
I’ve been dealing with SAD all my adult life, and especially since I moved to the northeast where daylight lasts about as long as my lunch break from November to March. I’ve learned a lot about coping, and about making things easier on myself by noticing and addressing my symptoms before I’m in the midst of a full-blown depressive spiral. SAD isn’t fixable for me, but here’s how I’ve learned to fight back against it.
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10 Times Black Women Slayed in 2017
Despite the world working as hard as ever to prevent us from doing so, black women — especially queer black women — did a whole lot of slaying in 2017.