Helping You Help Yourself #43
Online therapy, figuring out whether your plant is dead, tax prep, sending faxes and more!
Playlist: Gay Broadway Morning
Every song on this playlist is a little push forward for you, reminding you that you are perfect just as you are. Now go out there and live loud just like a musical theatre enthusiast should!
Help Stop Betsy DeVos from Becoming Education Secretary With Your Phone And Your Friends
Who needs to call: people who live in Tennessee, Wyoming, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Louisiana, Indiana, Utah, Kansas and Alaska. Who needs to act? Everyone who knows anyone who lives in these states.
10 More Disabled Women Who Are Making Political Noise
In honor of all the other crips I saw in the streets on the Women’s March on Washington, of every disabled woman who’s had it with lip service and wants to make sure this movement belongs to all of us, here are ten more who are already preparing the way.
PHOTOESSAY: We F-cking Marched, Y’all
Here’s what Molly saw on the ground in D.C. at the Women’s March on Washington.
5 Million Resist Trump: 100 Pictures Of Queer Power At Women’s Marches Worldwide
The Women’s March was a record-breaking worldwide protest against Donald Trump, and you’re gonna love all these photos of lesbians, queers, gays, bisexuals and allies who rallied for the occasion.
Sunday Funday Is Marching Into Your Heart With Another LGBT Dance Party
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Over 100 mayors and two lesbian co-pastors walk into another LGBT dance party.
NSFW Sunday Has Power
Vintage gossip, challenging abstinence-only sex education, what a 24/7 BDSM relationship can look like, how credit card companies antagonize sex-related businesses and more.
What Data Dumps Are Doing to Journalism
Got information that’s significant to the public? Here’s why you should leak to a journalist and not a faceless mob.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Backpage
Sex work is a human rights issue.
Art Therapy Special: Protest Signs for a Protest World
The revolution will need signage.
Friday Open Thread: Let’s Hold Space
How can we create refuge for each other?
The Comment Awards Will Never Stop Fighting for You
Broadcasting live this week from the Upside Down, it’s your best and brightest comments!
LIVEBLOG: Donald Trump’s Inauguration Is This Really Happening Oh No
Riese and Erin are watching the inauguration so you don’t have to!
Anonymous Sex Toy Review: The Moody
“If you like to be on top during penetrative sex but you’re by yourself, the Moody and some ingenuity plus quad strength could be your solution.”
The Future is Feminist: The Resistance To Trump’s Agenda Begins Now
“On Inauguration day, under the banner ‘The Future Is Feminist,’ a feminist affinity group organizing with the DisruptJ20 coalition, we will disrupt the flow of foot traffic to all Inauguration Day events, and focus public attention on the incoming administration’s open misogyny and hostility toward the rights of women.”
Betsy DeVos Carves Out Her Own Terrifying Niche in a Cabinet of Nightmares: Threatening Public Education
Betsy DeVos is truly awful and the idea of her as an education secretary should strike terror into all our hearts. Here’s why!
The Autostraddle Team’s Ten Most Influential Teen Albums
The music you listen to in your teen years mixes with your hormones and emotions and overwhelms you and permanently molds you. You make mix tapes, you go to shows, you buy band t-shirts and posters, you get ill advised tattoos. It’s a lot of fun.
“The Stanley Parable” Is a Quirky Video Game Break From the Ol’ 9 to 5
At its core, the game is about following orders; do you make Stanley follow through with the narration or do you defy it?
Lez Liberty Lit: The New Comics Sans
Black artists and America, (your) feelings about typography, writers resisting, a history of feminist bookstores, representation in comics and more.