Be The Change: How to Make a Mind Map for Activism
This mind map exercise will help activists create achievable goals to avoid burnout.
PHOTO GALLERY: Queer in the Bedroom
Your next community gallery is here! Come gaze upon nearly 170 queer bedrooms of our lives, and the queers who queer them. Safe for work, more or less!
#BlackExcellence At Its Finest: “Moonlight” Beats “La La Land” for Best Picture
Besides the fact that Moonlight is 200% the movie La La Land could ever be, on a petty note, seeing something undeserved snatched out of white hands felt SO. GOOD. It was the vindication I will never get in my real life. It was #BlackExcellence at its finest.
Follow Your Arrow: “Great British Bake Off” Star Ruby Tandoh Shares Her Love of Food
“I wish there were more LGBTQ food writers, though — it can be a pretty stiflingly traditional (read: heteronormative, and very white) world. Find a network of like-minded queer women to work with, seek advice from and befriend! We gotta stick together.”
Meet One Day at a Time’s Lesbian Writers, Becky Mann and Michelle Badillo
We talked to One Day at a Time writers, Becky Mann and Michelle Badillo, about gay representation on TV, how Autostraddle came to be in the script, their queer TV roots, what kind of LGBT stories are missing from TV and what’s in store for Elena in a potential next season.
9 Lesbian and Trans Women Activists In the Spotlight Of “When We Rise”
Summaries of the historical events chronicled in “When We Rise” and background on some of the incredible women portrayed in this historical miniseries, debuting tomorrow on ABC.
Sunday Funday is Getting Political With Jodie Foster and Dancing in the Moonlight
Jodie Foster spoke out against Trump at a pre-Oscars rally, Moonlight dominated the Independent Spirit Awards, Ellen gave away her biggest gift(s) ever, Slovenia legalized same-sex marriage, and two gays finally touched lips on the Disney Channel.
Chyna Gibson is the Fifth Trans Woman of Color, Fourth Black Trans Woman, Murdered So Far This Year
According to a friend, Gibson was visiting her friends and family in New Orleans to celebrate Mardi Gras. That friend added, “She was just a really good person. Everyone loved her. This is unnecessary.”
3 A.M.: An Unlikely Protagonist
Welcome to 3 A.M. a monthly comic about a very unlikely job at a very unlikely convenience store and some very, very unlikely events.
Things I Read That I Love #222: I Look For Myself In Other Women’s Bodies
Topics include the Olsen twins museum, Mary Gaitskill, taking up space, PewDiePie, the Milo bus, menstrual cups, women’s prisons, airports and so much more!
NSFW Sunday Is Taking Nudes With A Feminist Lens
Safer sexting from a feminist perspective, everything about your ex, brains on BDSM, whether you need to wash your hands before fingering someone and more.
Will Uber’s Very Public Sexual Harassment Debacle Actually Change Things For Women in Tech?
Are we finally moving past the storytelling phase and into doing real things to combat sexism in the technology industry, or is this Uber fiasco more of the same?
Boob(s on Your) Tube: Ten Entire Lesbian and Bisexual Women Canoodled on TV This Week
Arizona and Minnick finally made out, Sara smooched Guinevere in Camelot, Eleanor and Max had a heart-to-heart, and who even knows what the heck happened on How to Get Away With Murder’s season three finale.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Show Me Your Photos
Post the 16th photo in your phone to the comments, whatever it is. You know, if you want to.
The Good Fight Episode 102 Recap: The Other Shoes Drop
Two episodes in a row of Maia and Amy canoodling in bed, heeeeeeey!
The Comment Awards are Glove Lunching
Mike Pence is scared of kittens – pass it on.
Black Queer Music History, Pt. 4 (1990s-Present)
Black queer musicians today are some of our strongest advocates, and they’re leading the revolution with singing and dancing.
39 Truly Innovative Ways You Described Your Relationship Status On The Autostraddle Reader Survey
“Desperately pining for the cute queer Hot Topic employee who complimented my yellow doc martens the other day”
The Struggle is Still Raging in North Carolina: “Bathroom Bill” HB2’s Status Under Trump
Here’s the latest updates in the struggle against HB2, an analysis of what a Trump administration means for Trans rights, and advice on what the rest of the country needs to learn from the fight in North Carolina.
PHOTO ESSAY: Permanent Reflections of Femme and Genderqueer People of Color
“My niece shows me her Instagram feed and I see no one like her looking back at me. The people I love have fleeting reflections in the media.”