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.
Misery loves company. We know where this tale inevitably leads, but some pleasure precedes the axe.
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.
I do not like gyms. They smell like people. Not in the good way. Here’s some nerd gear to get you through.
“Does anyone at the CIA who is for sure reading this want to hire me?”
Why you should be careful about sex on shrooms, rumbly vs buzzy vibrators, dating as a hobby, why “microcheating” is absurd and more.
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!
Bonus points if you listen to The Cranberries while you make these bars.
Don’t worry, I’m fine…most of the time, anyway.
GLAAD Award nominations were announced today and Autostraddle got a fifth nomination!
Grey’s Anatomy, grown-ish, Fresh Off the Boat, The Fosters, and Sara Ramirez in that tux!
Topics include Newsies, Katja Blichfeld, the abuse of temps in a Toronto factory, Diana Vreeland, book covers, privileging choicelessness and so much more!
Happy Friday I have a crush on an actor! Let’s talk about it!!
“Of course Kristen would be scissors.”
In which a debate over body hair pushes a white mother and her brown daughter to the limits of mutual understanding.
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It’s 2018, we’re sick of this, and we’re hungry for blood.
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!
“This is a pant-suited Cate Blanchett in the kind of natural leg spread that would make a young Jodi Foster seethe with envy.”
Cristy C Road’s intersectional tarot deck, enchanted with resistance, survival and spirituality, is no longer a dream of the future.
A proposed New York prison book ban, asexuality in fiction, working from home, paper planners, spine-in books and more.