Bottoms Up: Used
“When I’m being used for sex, I feel like a vessel through which pleasure flows, hot and bursting.”
NEW MERCH ALERT: Lavender Menace & Soft Butch Tees
You’re gonna look and feel so good in these.
Drawn to Comics: Miranda Harmon Makes the Most Charming Dang Comics
Miranda Harmon has an art and writing skill that comes from her real life adorably charming personality. She’s able to turn subjects that you might not otherwise care about into stories that you desperately want to see.
Katy Perry Wins Yet Another Gay Allyship Award, Admits She More-Than-Kissed A Girl, Only Kinda Liked It
This weekend, Katy Perry received the HRC’s “highest honor,” the National Equality Award, and everybody’s talking about her inspirational speech — but does Katy Perry really deserve an award for LGBT advocacy in the first place? And does it even matter, really, when you consider the impending heat death of the universe, etc.
Helping You Help Yourself #47
DIY cat houses, how to avoid losing things, pigs can learn to scream, ditching bad Tinder dates and more!
YouTube Restricts LGBTQ+ Content to “Protect Children” and Pisses Me the F*ck Off
151 out of the 216 advice videos I helped create over the span of six years — answering questions submitted by young people — have been blocked, and our entire channel is no longer listed in the search for “Everyone Is Gay.”
What I Wish I’d Learned in Sex Ed
Your curriculum isn’t “one size fits all” if “all” means “nondisabled straight people.”
“The Good Fight” Episode 106 Recap: Bad Troll Rising
You can’t have a ripped-from-the-headlines legal show without a Milo Yiannopoulos episode.
40 Recipes Celebrating Onion Diversity
I’m not crying because I’m cutting onions. I’m crying because I’m thinking about how beautiful onions are.
Sunday Funday is Packing for Hawai’i and Fighting Discrimination at Home
Rural states standing up for LGBT rights, a Hawaiian tourism campaign aimed at gays, Lifestyles of the Queer and Famous, Buffy bootcamp, and more!
NSFW Sunday Is All Possibility
Netflix and relationships, science finally learns about the clitoris (sort of), the We-Vibe “scandal,” what we owe to sex worker activism and more.
Cee and Eli Do Lesbians Who Tech (for the First Time in Four Years!)
In which Autostraddle tech duo Cee and Eli revisit Lesbians Who Tech and have loads of thoughts about how it’s grown and where it might grow next.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Amplified Voice
I am a queer immigrant.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Gal Pals Gone Wild!
How are you! Are your gal pals getting wild this Spring Break? Jump in and tell me about it in this week’s Friday Open Thread!
The New “Great British Bake Off” Maintains Pre-Existing Level of Lesbians
The new Bake Off line-up has been announced and it’s as confusing as everything else in 2017.
The Comment Awards Are Weekending in Cherry Grove
Come for Dark Willow, stay for Soft Butch Princess Di!
Liquor in the Mint: A Classic Mojito
This build-in-glass classic breaks all the rules and is super easy and it comes with a bit of esoteric knowledge in case a bartender starts a pissing contest with you.
Aesthetic Rising: Your Astrological Fashion Forecast Featuring Pisces
Here’s the thing: you’re an actual star walking on this earth. And you’re very, very good with clothes.
PHOTOESSAY: Crossroad to Black Trans Liberation National Day of Action
Yesterday was a national day of action to protect, support, and amplify our black trans family and their voices. As you know, this intersection is at the highest risk for violence and hate from both our communities and the state.
87 Weeks Ago: The Night Mykki Blanco Made a Small Girl Feel Big
“I pushed and shoved and laughed and danced in big black shoes that would later bruise my feet, next to a girl who would later love me back.”