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Travel

We’re Looking for More Queer Girl City Guides and to Update Our Current Ones!

If you live in or are moving to or visiting any of the cities that we have Queer Girl City Guides to, you’ve probably noticed that they’re pretty gosh dang out of date. But not for long!

Queer Girl City Guides May 9, 2017 79 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Now Is A Good Time To Get Into Patricia Lockwood

Priestdaddy, the poet’s new coming-of-age memoir, has a lot of twists and a lot of power.

Cara May 9, 2017 6 Comments
Queer Fashion

Style Thief: Your Camp Counselor From 1999

For a wardrobe that seems to consist mainly of old t-shirts, cutoff shorts, and strappy sandals destined to leave tan lines, camp counselor fashion works.

Ari May 9, 2017 29 Comments
Gender

Kenneth Bostick, 59, is the Tenth Trans Person of Color Murdered in the US This Year [UPDATED]

Nine out of the ten trans people reported murdered this year have been Black; the tenth was a Native American woman.

Mey May 8, 2017 13 Comments
Politics + Activism

Nationalism Plus States’ Rights Are a Nightmare for Queer People

Maybe the reason Trump wants to pretend nobody has studied the Civil War is because he knows even a cursory look at history will expose his tricks.

Julia May 8, 2017 6 Comments
Food Lists

16 Meals and Snacks To Maintain The Level Of Sad You Already Feel

“It’s fine, because everything is.”

Riese May 8, 2017 131 Comments
Queer Fashion Shopping

9 Autostraddle-Approved Travel Accessories for Your Next Vacation

It’s vacation season. Let’s pack!

Nora May 8, 2017 23 Comments
Politics + Activism

Be The Change: Love Without Power Will Never Bring Justice

Let’s let love win, but not let love be our only strategy. Why we need to understand love and power together to win intersectional justice for all.

KaeLyn May 8, 2017 9 Comments
Society + Culture

Sunday Funday Is Meeting Badass LGBTQ Elders For A Dinner Date

Pakistan’s first trans model Kami Sid, a “family portrait” series of LGBTQ activists old and young, a safe place to pee for every NYC student, Gigi Gorgeous and Kat Blaque making your heart flutter, and a whole whole lotta LGBTQ history!

KaeLyn May 7, 2017 16 Comments
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Laughing, Crying, Sneezing

How to practice feminism in relationships, a vibrator for data nerds, some side-effects of orgasms, embracing change in long-term relationships, how to sext like the Victorians and more.

Ryan Yates May 7, 2017 7 Comments
Geekery

Phishing’s No Phun; Here’s How To Resist The Bait

You may have heard about the big Google-Docs impersonating phishing scam this week, and there are a lot more out there. Here’s how to protect yourself.

A.E. Osworth May 6, 2017 4 Comments
Webcomics

Grease Bats: The Cheater

“If by nice night you mean a nice night to wallow in your own GUILT in the dark, then yes, I agree.”

Archie May 6, 2017 10 Comments
Straddleverse

FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: God, Remember LiveJournal?

Geocities. MySpace. LiveJournal. Blogspot. Facebook unless you still use that one (sorry). Secret Tumblr. Vine. Snapchat before it got big I guess? LET’S TALK ABOUT OUR INTERNET PAST LIVES.

Ryan Yates May 5, 2017 159 Comments
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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are a Soft Safe Space to Land

Double entendres, gay-ass underpants, and Mey is here to get us into trouble – it’s the Comment Awards!

Darcy May 5, 2017 21 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #237: An Alternative Story In Which We Can Find Love Anywhere We Want To Find It

Topics include US Gymnastics, eating disorders and heartbreak, New Orleans’ racial undertones, Lil Wayne’s prison memoir, Amy Grant, S-Town, Eileen Myles, Roe V Wade and so much more!

Riese May 5, 2017 10 Comments
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Wildfang’s Latest Line has Your Dapper and Tomboy Needs Covered

Wildfang just dropped their summer collection, and if you’re in need of swanky suiting or statement tees, you’re in luck.

Nora May 5, 2017 40 Comments
Politics + Activism

Trump’s “Religious Liberty” Executive Order Doesn’t Explicitly Target Gay People but It’s Still Horrifying

Trump doesn’t want to deal with LGBTQ activists, but he’s happy to legitimize discrimination even if he’s not legalizing it.

Heather Hogan May 4, 2017 5 Comments
Politics + Activism Queer Pregnancy

The Terrifying Part of the ACA Repeal That’s Already Affecting Trans and Pregnant People

A lot of terrible, overwhelming things are happening for our community, right now. Let’s hold one another and try to understand what’s going on.

Priya May 4, 2017 26 Comments
TV Reviews

Nia Long’s Lesbian Character in “Dear White People” Sure Was Underwhelming

Chapter III of “Dear White People” gives us Nia Long as Neika Hobbs in my dream job as an African-American studies professor and a beautiful self-proclaimed lesbian… but her storyline, and really the show in general, didn’t quite land for me.

Ari May 4, 2017 29 Comments
Dating

Poly Pocket: Figuring Out Where To Start

How a single 31-year old pansexual non-monogamous Black woman living in Los Angeles is starting to explore poly.

Ryan Yates May 4, 2017 3 Comments
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