Pride Style Guide: How To Get The Babalook
With these tips, you’ll be turning heads (off people’s necks) in no time. BadabaDOOK.
The Comment Awards are Ken of Center
“Dear Barbie: I’m not sure if you visit Autostraddle.com, but the more I think about it, the more I start to believe that you probably do.”
A Lifetime of Aftermath: Roxane Gay’s “Hunger” Dares You Not to Look Away
In a time when the word “healing” feels thinner than ever, affixed as it is to too many pictures of skinny, silhouetted yogis on beaches, we need to reacquaint ourselves with the severity of that process. This book is a generous offering to a society that may not know what to do with it.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: What Would Be A Great Music Collaboration?
SZA’s new genre-melding album has me thinking about collaborations. Come shake the week off and tell me yours!
Pretty Little Liars Episode 719 Recap: You Know What They Say About Hope
You want to know what I learned from seven seasons of watching Pretty Little Liars? The best you can hope for as a woman in this world is to make yourself boring and docile and helpless enough that a man will ultimately intervene and save you from interesting women, and also from yourself.
Things I Read That I Love #240: It’s So Frustrating To Me That I’m Not a Rock Star
Topics include Rachel Maddow, Chelsea Manning, the new Ken dolls, “Get Out,” mobile homes, “writing Iranian-American,” Elizabeth Wurtzel, the GOOP summit and more!
20 Things To Say When Your Rideshare Driver Asks If You Have A Husband
What do you do when the guy behind the wheel (yes it’s always a guy) doesn’t take “I’m silently putting my earbuds in right now” for an answer?
Orange Is The New Black Episode 511 Review: It’s a Family Affair
After an episode of literal torture, OITNB focuses on the stories it tells best: the ones about family.
Day in the Life: Lisa Cannistraci, Activist and Lesbian Bar Owner
“When I opened the bar in 1991, we had a jukebox. Yeah that’s about it. Back then folks were not so intent on being in fabulous spaces. They just wanted a safe space to congregate.”
We Are All Lesbian Ken: Send Us Your Photos For A Community Gallery
We want you to send us photos of your Best Ken Self!
Orange is the New Black Episode 510 Review: Yep, I’m Gonna Cuss Everyone Out
Spectacles rely on spectators, and I for one am not going to be pulled into this show anymore just to watch violence for the sake of violence. I can watch the news and do that, thanks.
Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #13
“i wish there were more bloody lesbians in the world so that i never had to get into ridiculous situations like this.”
Pop Culture Fix: Your Girl Diana Taurasi Is Now Officially The Greatest Women’s Basketball Player in History
Ellen’s got a new puppy line at PetSmart, everyone agrees Danielle Brooks deserves an Emmy, Funny or Die parodies The Handmaid’s Tale and more!
5 Women From Mythology You Should Totally Date
Hatshepsut is the original Mommi
Roundtable: The Lesbian Toaster
Everyone on staff tells me WITHOUT LOOKING where they think the lesbian toaster thing came from.
“What Remains of Edith Finch” is Trying to Break Your Heart
You are sure that you are marching each Finch toward their death, and you want to do something different, but these stories have already been written.
Queer Crip Love Fest: In Control of My Own Narrative
“It’s interesting and refreshing to be in this time period where authors are resisting in their own way.”
Lez Liberty Lit: Bodies Being Bodies
Janet Mock, Roxane Gay, women’s monstrous flesh, LeVar Burton reading to you, beach versus airplane books and more.
75 Lesbian Ken Dolls, Ranked By Lesbianism
If you’ve got an ex-girlfriend, we’ve got a Ken Doll for that.
Orange Is the New Black Episode 509 Review: American Horror Show
“This was the point in this episode, and there were points like this in almost every episode, where I went cold and just thought ‘Why am I still watching this fucking show?'”