Bottoms Up: You Are Not My Dom
Somehow, self-identifying as a submissive makes some potential doms think I am their sub.
No World For Us: Broken Girls and Embodied Trauma in Porpentine’s “Psycho Nymph Exile”
Psycho Nymph Exile is a cartography of brokenness, an answer to the question that no one wants to ask: What happens after exile? What happens to the girls who become trash?
SCOTUS Kicks Grimm Case Back To Lower Court, Trans Kids Remain In Legally Murky Hellscape
Today, the Supreme Court announced it would be vacating the lower court’s ruling, meaning it decided not to hear Gavin Grimm’s case after all and to instead send it back to the lower court. The immediate effects of this decision are that almost everyone is left with questions.
55 Gayest Ways You Met Your Significant Other(s), According to the Autostraddle Reader Survey
“Smashing the patriarchy and organizing for a rape crisis center on our college campus while also taking a gender studies class. Also I was a data point in her thesis. It was about gender neutral housing.”
“We Are Not Burdens and We Don’t Deserve to Die”: A Disability Day of Mourning Roundtable
“In the midst of all this grief and uncertainty, we must rise up and practice pride every day.”
Helping You Help Yourself #46
Cleaning your shower curtain, a lightbulb terrarium, movie theater popcorn without leaving your house, and some cool nerd stuff courtesy of NASA!
VIDEO! Getting In Bed with Kristin #7: Coming Out (to Others)
Last week on #GIBWK we talked about coming out to other people and tackled specifics like coming out via letter vs in person, coming out for a second time, coming out to religious family, and of course the hard-hitting issue of when I knew that my wife was gay…
The Good Fight Episode 104 Recap: FAKE NEWS! Is Forever
This episode has it all. Twitter harassment, revenge porn, good Scotch, FAKE NEWS!
31 Pasta Recipes To Make Your Belly Full and Your Heart Happy
After a long day of existing, nothing makes me feel better than a warm oversized bowl of warm noods. Maybe you feel the same? Well have I got a list for you.
Sunday Funday Is Ready For More “One Day At A Time,” Lesbian Paper Towels, Special Elections and Girl Scout Cookies
One Day At a Time gets renewed, Brawny Paper Towels puts a black lesbian fighter pilot in a new promotional campaign, the New York Public Schools will let trans kids use their preferred pronouns, churches mobilize against Trump’s immigration policies, famous queers get photographed in their self-described “castles” and more good news for your Sunday!
NSFW Sunday Is Into Anal Sex
How to have anal sex for the first time, queer love in the anthropocene, a free online sex conference, fetish wear and fashion and more.
Apps For How We’re Working in 2017, The Year of Limited Bandwidth
The name of the game is clean and distraction-free. Apps that are especially good for working in these distracting times.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Crazy
“I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about my mental health…”
Young DREAMer Daniela Vargas Could Be Deported Today Without Even a Hearing
Undocumented student Daniela Vargas bravely spoke out at a news conference advocating for immigrants and was shortly detained by ICE. She’s now facing immediate deportation without a hearing. She’s lived in the U.S. since she was 7 years old.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: What Are You Grateful For?
It is sometimes the hardest and most simple thing, to conjure up three things you are thankful to have in your life, every single day. It feels especially hard, and especially necessary, right now.
Gabby Rivera on Bringing Her Queer Brown Weirdo Self to Marvel’s America
“I’m a queer brown weirdo and I love every short inch of myself. I’m bringing all that round, brown, goodness to this story. All the things that make me laugh and make me feel strong, they’re going to be in America’s world.”
The Comment Awards Are Kinky Vanilla
Moonlight and Slumbr and tank tops, oh my!
If Women’s Magazine Covers Were Aimed at Queer Women, Pt. 3
Featuring Hannah Hart, a carabiner and Sara Ramirez.
Hayley Kiyoko Shares a New Unrequited Queer Girl Love Anthem With “Sleepover”
In this newest video, Kiyoko takes center stage as the queer protagonist of her video and her song, singing about the difficult feelings of a queer woman who develops feelings for a friend.
“Stardew Valley” Gave Me and My Sister a Chance To Swoon Over Girls Together for the First Time in Our Gay Lives
Video games are cool because they let you conquer and vanquish evil the way you wish you could in the real world. They’re cool because they show you a world that could have been, and a world where it’s just okay to be.