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Geekery

“Doki Doki Literature Club” Doesn’t Subvert Dating Sim Misogyny as Much as It Thinks It Does

Rather than simply acknowledging the ridiculous trope of no female agency in dating sims and attempting to explain it away from a meta perspective, I wish the game had instead just given the girls more agency.

Jenna January 22, 2018 11 Comments
Movie Reviews

“Lizzie” Review: Kristen Stewart and Chloë Sevigny Have Hot Barn Sex, Axe-Murder a Man Together

Misery loves company. We know where this tale inevitably leads, but some pleasure precedes the axe.

fonseca January 22, 2018 6 Comments
Playlists

Playlist: My 2018 Brand Is Masculine Nerd Witch

I’m taking back power this year, after a year of feeling so powerless. I’m reveling in the parts of me that feel most like me.

A.E. Osworth January 22, 2018 16 Comments
Geekery Shopping

Relevant To Your Interests: Be The Gym Leader

I do not like gyms. They smell like people. Not in the good way. Here’s some nerd gear to get you through.

A.E. Osworth January 22, 2018 6 Comments
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TV Feature

Monday Roundtable: What Reality Show/Game Show Would You Destroy?

“Does anyone at the CIA who is for sure reading this want to hire me?”

the team January 22, 2018 32 Comments
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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Having Sex On Shrooms

Why you should be careful about sex on shrooms, rumbly vs buzzy vibrators, dating as a hobby, why “microcheating” is absurd and more.

Ryan Yates January 21, 2018 8 Comments
Society + Culture

Sunday Funday is Saluting Helen Grace James, 90-Year-Old Lesbian American Hero!

Helen James wins her case and is generally a real American hero I can get behind, new documentary about Black lesbian playwright Lorraine Hansberry, Sarah Waters on 20 years of Tipping the Velvet, Joan Greene is yet another LGBT candidate running in 2018, Melissa Etheridge wants an uprising of love, and more good stuff!

KaeLyn January 21, 2018 19 Comments
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Femme Brûlée: Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Cranberry Nut Bars

Bonus points if you listen to The Cranberries while you make these bars.

Reneice Charles January 20, 2018 7 Comments
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Baopu #42: I’m Falling

Don’t worry, I’m fine…most of the time, anyway.

Yao Xiao January 20, 2018 7 Comments
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2018 GLAAD Media Award Nominees Include Autostraddle, Gabby Rivera’s “America,” “One Day at a Time” and More of Your Faves

GLAAD Award nominations were announced today and Autostraddle got a fifth nomination!

Heather Hogan January 19, 2018 26 Comments
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Boob(s On Your) Tube: The TV Gays Are Out In Full Force in 2018

Grey’s Anatomy, grown-ish, Fresh Off the Boat, The Fosters, and Sara Ramirez in that tux!

Heather Hogan January 19, 2018 30 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #255: An Extended Exposure Therapy To All The Things You Once Feared.

Topics include Newsies, Katja Blichfeld, the abuse of temps in a Toronto factory, Diana Vreeland, book covers, privileging choicelessness and so much more!

Riese January 19, 2018 5 Comments
Straddleverse

FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: What’s Your Type??

Happy Friday I have a crush on an actor! Let’s talk about it!!

Ari January 19, 2018 286 Comments
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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Weak in the Knees

“Of course Kristen would be scissors.”

Darcy January 19, 2018 22 Comments
First Person

On Loving My White Mother

In which a debate over body hair pushes a white mother and her brown daughter to the limits of mutual understanding.

Maya January 19, 2018 25 Comments
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Playlists

Playlist: My 2018 Brand Is Basically Just Eartha Kitt in the “I Wanna Be Evil” Video

It’s 2018, we’re sick of this, and we’re hungry for blood.

Raquel January 19, 2018 14 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Tig Says Lesbian Masterpiece One Mississippi‘s Season 3 Was Gonna Be “Quite The Force” and Other Stories

Tig’s statement on the unfair no-good terrible cancellation of the wonderful One Mississippi, a new Heathers trailer continues to confound, Bellevue features a trans actress playing a murdered trans girl, Lena Waithe is gonna be on “This Is Us,”omg Black Lightning, the story of Steven Universe and so much more!

Riese January 18, 2018 10 Comments
Movie News & Trailers

In a Movie Full of Tops, Who has the Most Top Energy in the “Ocean’s 8” Trailer?

“This is a pant-suited Cate Blanchett in the kind of natural leg spread that would make a young Jodi Foster seethe with envy.”

Erin January 18, 2018 69 Comments
Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft Visual Art

Cristy C. Road’s “Next World Tarot” Boldly Defines a New Generation of Saints

Cristy C Road’s intersectional tarot deck, enchanted with resistance, survival and spirituality, is no longer a dream of the future.

Courtney Trouble January 18, 2018 3 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Backwards Books

A proposed New York prison book ban, asexuality in fiction, working from home, paper planners, spine-in books and more.

Ryan Yates January 18, 2018 7 Comments
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