Helping You Help Yourself #52
Being friends with anyone, taking action on typos in your books, negotiating down debt, houses for owls and more!
Diana Taurasi Is Gay (and Gay Married to Former WNBA Teammate Penny Taylor)
“That was our special thing,” Taurasi said yesterday. “We never kept it secret, we just didn’t want that to be an issue ever.”
Add Queer & Trans Developers to One 52-Hour Train Ride, Get Rad Inclusive Games
Whether through choices in game design or getting to know other queer attendees, many of us found Train Jam to be an amazing opportunity to express our identities, learn new skills, and build valuable community.
Netflix’s Anne of Green Gables Can’t Even Be Saved By Canonical Queerness
“Anne With An E” isn’t even good television, and it’s absolutely not “Anne of Green Gables.”
15 Tea Recipes That’ll Make You Feel Like a Potions Master
You can brew them in a cauldron or not; up to you.
Let’s Kickstart LinkedIn: More Internet Haikus
This round we cover @horse_ebooks, Mike Pence’s horse tweet, beige cardigan, astrological autofills, and more!
Sunday Funday Is Kissing Away Lesbian Stereotypes
Exploring lesbian identity beyond stereotypes, freeing Black moms on National Mama’s Bail Out Day, telling conversion therapy to GTFO, Brazilians kissing for LGBT rights, the first third-gender marker on state ID’s in Oregon, and more!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is An Antidote
What type of love addict are you? How one woman’s disability impacted her queer dating life, popular sex toys by state, challenging fatphobia and more.
Alia Shawkat is Bisexual: “Arrested Development” Star Casually Comes Out
“I consider myself bisexual, and I think balancing my male and female energies has been a big part of me growing as an actor.”
3 Apps to Help You Make the World Better
Three more apps made for the Resistance as we continue to rail against the corrupt white nationalist regime that has taken hold in the U.S.
Baopu #33: Quiet Night Thoughts
A visual interpretation of a poem by Li Bai.
“13 Reasons Why” Is Messed Up and Bad, Also Has a Lesbian Character
I would’ve preferred “13 Reasons Why Hannah Baker Murdered Bryce Walker But Shouldn’t Go To Prison For It.”
The Comment Awards Are Packing for Camp
Women laughing with salad, killer vaginas, and shiny-haired counselors from the camp days of yore: it’s the Comment Awards!
10 Stupid Questions With 10 Hilarious Queer Women, Part 2
Would you rather be drowned in Jello or suffocated by cheesecake?
Amandla Stenberg’s Glorious Quest For World Domination Continues With Their Music Video Debut
You knew when the time came for Amandla Stenberg to star in their own music video, they would also direct it and edit it.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Help Me Pick New Specs Also Yay It’s Friday!
I need some help picking out new gay eyeglasses and also it’s Friday so come in here and get some love!
A Total Beginner’s Guide To Bow Ties
If you’re ready to jump on the bow tie bandwagon, this guide will help get you started.
KOKUMO’s Galactic Bitch-Slap to the Literary Establishment
KOKUMO blasts through the bullshit rhetoric and tokenism that too-often engulf queer and trans communities in order to expose the raw struggle to survive at their heart.
Bisexual Adventist and Former Pastor Alicia Johnston Contemplates Ministry After Coming Out
Seventh-Day Adventist pastor Alicia Johnston knew she would lose leadership of her congregation when she came out as bisexual, but did it anyway. She talked with Autostraddle about her hopes to the future, and how she wants to continue ministering to queer people of faith.
I Never Meant for My Hair to Be the Way Back to the Lighthouse
“I thought changing something on the outside would change the wrecked ruin of me on the inside. I thought somehow the inside would get a memo from my outside and get into shape. It didn’t, but my hair is the first way I was able to gain autonomy over my body.”