Four More Tech Tools to Help You Get Involved, Call for Change, and Resist Trump
Four more apps for resisting Donald Trump. Calls, kittens and boycotts.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: New Era
“Dear Autostraddle family…” (painted with leftover paint from protest signs and love)
The Comment Awards are Doing Some Deep Breathing
We’ve got alternative yeasticides, sapphic cinema, a mama’s infinite love, and five million marchers – get in here!
PHOTO GALLERY: Queer in the Kitchen
Your communal photo gallery is here! Gaze upon nearly 200 queer as fuck kitchens, and the queers who queer them.
Trump Went Apeshit Anti-Science This Week, Let’s Fight Back
They want to overwhelm us and exhaust us with the chaos. I reject that. Here’s a recap of every anti-science action Trump’s administration made this week and some ways to fight back.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: How Are You Keeping This Women’s March Feeling Going?
I’ve made a girl group playlist and intend to listen to it on loop at full capacity after filling Riese’s entire living room with sand, what are you doing?
Women and LGBTQ People Will be Hit Hardest by NYT’s Decision to Kill the Comics Best Seller Lists
This is a big blow to a part of the publishing world that is often regarded as “books for kids” or something less than “real literature.” It’s an especially big blow to marginalized people.
Things I Read That I Love #220: The Jaws That Closed Only To Chew Gum
Topics include Jared Kushner, Mike Pence, Trump Country, health care, CULT MURDERS, The Spur Posse, Tiffany from America’s Next Top Model, Sqirl and more!
Call For Submissions: “Renaissance,” Personal Essays From Black LGBT Women
I’m guest editing an essay series for Autostraddle next month and am looking for personal essays about how your black queer life has been saved or influenced by art in all forms, from television to sculpture.
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 31, January 2017
“isn’t anyone going to speak out against rachel for saying all men should be castrated and set on fire ???????”
Anonymous Sex Toy Review: The Sharevibe Double-Ended Dildo
For me, the sleeper success of the Sharevibe came in butch-cock sucking.
9 Queer-Run Podcasts You Should Be Listening to Right Now
If you’re having trouble shaking the feeling that all of your media feeds are one giant grief orgy, try changing the pace of what you take in. Not even the content, necessarily — just the rate. Podcasts are an easy way to do that: 30 to 60 minutes later, you’re done, informed, and ready to fight your next battle.
Also.Also.Also: Proof the Future Is Queer, Black, Brown and Female
Meet the queer black feminist who helped hang the RESIST banner, there’s a crack in the desert, Rebecca Solnit, tons more on the Women’s March, the Doomsday Clock has some bad news, and so much more!
I Was Trained for the Culture Wars in Home School, Awaiting Someone Like Mike Pence as a Messiah
To take back the country for Christ, we needed to outbreed, outvote and outactivate the other side, thus saith The Lord.
I Watched Lesbian Classic “Go Fish” For The First Time And Wow WTF Is This Movie
Like a spinning top on a checker board, these are the days of our lives.
Poly Pocket: Queer Platonic Love
How a a 28-year-old Chicana pansexual cis woman living in the Midwest, working in the sex industry, and in a long-term queer platonic relationship does poly.
Here’s How Trump’s Administration Is Already Targeting America’s Most Vulnerable
From immigrants to refugees to Native land to the denizens of Chicago and more, Trump’s already making it very clear who he plans to hurt with the power of his office. A few months ago they were bigoted campaign promises; now they’re very quickly becoming terrifying reality.
Republicans Are Gutting Regulations and the Only Winners Will Be the Super Rich
Republicans in Congress, emboldened by Trump’s promise to support them carte blanche, are moving swiftly to destroy the federal regulations the Obama administration put in place to protect the environment, the economy, and public education.
Pop Culture Fix: “Supergirl” Is Getting Super Gay(er) for Valentine’s Day
Jill Soloway is creating some radical feminist sleeper cells, Carrie Brownstein would like to share her favorite high school albums with you, Shonda Rhimes is up to something, Hidden Figures got a Best Picture nomination and Viola Davis got her third Oscar nod, there’s a real lesbian-looking movie coming to Canada in time for Valentine’s Day, and oh so many other things.
How To Stop Tom Price From Becoming Health and Human Services Secretary With Your Phone and Your Friends
Who needs to call: people who live in Utah, Iowa, Idaho, Kansas, Wyoming, Texas, South Dakota, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Louisiana.