Four Affordable Games with Weird, Escapist Worlds For Escaping To
These games were low or no-cost investments for me that have yielded hours of forgetting exactly how bad things are right now.
Friday Open Thread: Be Honest, How Nerdy Are Your Weekend Plans
I’ll be doing a read-a-thon, nbd. What are you up to? Get in here and tell me about it!
The Comment Awards Are Into Your Grandma
Your grandma sounds like a babe, I don’t know what else to tell you.
Show Us Your “The Weather Is Finally Good” Style!
I’m ready to see your warm weather looks, so do me a solid and contribute to Autostraddle’s “The Weather Is Finally Good” outfit gallery!
Playlist: Masturbation Month
In honor of MM, I’ve put together this playlist for you. And lemme tell ya, it was exciting — so exciting that I had to close the blinds and burn some incense and imagine Sadé serenading a clone of Sadé in a bathtub filled with rose petals and surrounded by 100 tea lights.
Relevant To Your Interests: The Nerdiest Birthday Cards I Could Find
I found twelve really nerdy birthday cards for the really nerdy people in your life.
Poly Pocket: Polyamory As All Possibility
Here’s how a 23 year old polyam queer femme living in Long Beach, CA, in a long-term relationship does poly.
8 Of the Hottest Fat Fashion Trends for This Summer
Other great trends for this fat queers this summer include aliens, tweed, Bodysuits and beachwear as formal wear.
22 Easy Steps to Rethinking Your Whole Relationship Through Late-Night Nudes
Is that insecurity in my pocket or have you just not sexted me back yet?
Style Thief: How To Dress Like Sia
Here’s how you can dress like Sia — even if you’re not up for the giant, vision-blocking wigs.
Pop Culture Fix: Dee Rees Is Making a Black Lesbian Horror Film With the Producer of “Get Out”
Plus: Lena Waithe opens up about her Master of None coming out episode, Arrested Development is coming back again, the first trailer for Battle of the Sexes, and more info on Aubrey Plaza’s new movie.
Five Lessons Today’s Queer Activists Can Learn From ACT UP
Five lessons that start to explore just how much we can learn from our queer and trans forebears in AIDS activism.
The 13 Stages of Klub Deer, In Robots
I’d like to think that all of us are exactly where we’re supposed to be right now, doing exactly what we’re supposed to be doing. And if what’s required of you right now is to look at gifs of dancing robots, so be it.
Oh Hey! It’s Alyssa #21: Nothin’ To See Here
It’s been one of those days where everyone seems to stare.
No Filter: This Is Not Brittani Nichols’ Problem
Also, Janelle Monáe gave a commencement address, Abby Wambach got married and Jasika Nicole has a new food dance for you.
“Supergirl” Episode 221 Recap: The Present Is Female
Welcome home, Cat Grant!
Drawn to Comics: Support Queer Camp Comics With “As the Crow Flies”
“This is honestly one of the best comics about identity and finding community and yourself that I’ve ever read.”
Abby Wambach and Glennon Doyle Melton Are Gay Christian Married!
What a weekend for gay weddings, eh?
Here’s How Queer and Trans People of Color Are Resisting Gentrification and Displacement
Lots of people are talking about gentrification, but who’s actually doing something about it? Queer and trans people of color, of course. In Oakland and Seattle, QTPOC are creating visionary solutions to combat gentrification and reclaim land for communities of color.
Let’s Talk About Dionysus, Genderqueer God of Partying and Pride
If you want a god of sex, wine and smashing the gender binary into little tiny pieces you might want to try Dionysus.