This Is You: Some Things The 2016 Autostraddle Survey Told Us About You
Once upon a time you told us a bunch of stuff about yourself and now I’m gonna tell you what you told me, but with pictures!
Once upon a time you told us a bunch of stuff about yourself and now I’m gonna tell you what you told me, but with pictures!
“Whether it’s metallic details, leather-y looks, or fabric that’s slashed or bound together with laces, Robbins often has a spectacular Mad Max: Thunderdome-type thing goin’ on. Hot.”
Hannah Hart’s hot buttery croissants and big announcement, Madrid World Pride was beautiful, Mormon founder of Mama Dragons, trans and queer Asian visibility, Jameka Evans is petitioning SCOTUS, housing for LGBTQ seniors, and more delicious links!
Pairing pizza and masturbation, sexting in present tense, Gang-bang porn, millennial sex, songs for your summer break up and more.
The goo can’t make up its mind so Wynonna and Waverly decide for it.
“This is the fun part where you cut the butter into the flour! I use this moment to release my pent up anger with the patriarchy.”
“It’s been three years since my mother told me that she’ll never accept my sexuality.”
Camille gets a kind of girlfriend on Stitchers, Maggie’s got her eyes on a barista on Younger, and The Bold Type kicks off with a lesbian subplot and a welcome dive into Feminism 101.
Straight girls go to prom together and give each other corsages and admire each other’s ‘necklaces’ all the time, right? Right?
Welcome to the Friday Open Thread, where we are probably all still bloated from our respective barbecues celebrating anything but rampant toxic nationalism.
Topics include the heroin epidemic in West Virginia, really expensive weddings, eczema, sexual abuse in a Baptist mission, Panda Express, teaching while black, A League of Their Own, the murders of TWOC in Detroit and so much more.
My favorite Carly Rae Jepsen song is “Your Type” — maybe because it’s so easy to read a trans girl subtext into the lyrics.
“Over the last year and a half, I went from my trans identity being something I was in touch with and worked through in one way or another, to suddenly this shift where it’s on the front burner. Now it’s time to become a whole person.”
Claws is not Breaking Bad. Breaking Bad is not Breaking Bad if Walter White isn’t a white man cloaked in respectability. You share that narrative through the eyes of a struggling black woman, a recent parolee, a recovering addict, a lesbian and a former sex worker, and the story changes completely.
“I think for many of us as disabled folk, we’ve come to terms with what we experience — but Nana’s experience of dementia is sort of different in that she doesn’t always know what’s happening or who and what she can trust. We can be empowered about disability at the same time as acknowledging that some of it really, seriously fucking hurts.”
Climate change in Louisiana, one transgender child on growing up, Juno and Jupiter, straight people cannot be helped, Amelia Earhart again, Lilith Fair, Kesha, a special pause for that fucking Boston Globe trash fire, and so much more!
This is the opposite of the games I usually play and it is a very welcome break. There is no plot. I AM the plot.
Bless #KenOfCenter, forever and ever amen.
I went all the way to New York to get in bed with Gabby Rivera last week, and we talked all about body image, summertime feelings, and America Chavez. It RULED.
Things get weird for this one year anniversary of What I Wore!