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Playlists

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!

Ari January 23, 2017 12 Comments
Politics + Activism

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.

A.E. Osworth January 23, 2017 51 Comments
Politics + Activism

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.

Carrie January 23, 2017 11 Comments
Politics + Activism

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.

Molly January 23, 2017 12 Comments
Politics + Activism

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.

Riese January 22, 2017 35 Comments
Society + Culture

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.

Carmen January 22, 2017 3 Comments
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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.

Ryan Yates January 22, 2017 1 Comment
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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.

A.E. Osworth January 21, 2017 7 Comments
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Saturday Morning Cartoons: Backpage

Sex work is a human rights issue.

Archie January 21, 2017 5 Comments
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Art Therapy Special: Protest Signs for a Protest World

The revolution will need signage.

Laneia January 20, 2017 50 Comments
Straddleverse

Friday Open Thread: Let’s Hold Space

How can we create refuge for each other?

Adrian January 20, 2017 176 Comments
Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Will Never Stop Fighting for You

Broadcasting live this week from the Upside Down, it’s your best and brightest comments!

Darcy January 20, 2017 13 Comments
Politics + Activism

LIVEBLOG: Donald Trump’s Inauguration Is This Really Happening Oh No

Riese and Erin are watching the inauguration so you don’t have to!

Riese January 20, 2017 118 Comments
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Sex Toys

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.”

Guest January 20, 2017 4 Comments
Politics + Activism

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.”

Courtney Jines January 20, 2017 5 Comments
Politics + Activism

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!

Rachel January 19, 2017 20 Comments
Music

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.

Mey January 19, 2017 97 Comments
Geekery

“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?

Jenna January 19, 2017 16 Comments
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Literature

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.

Ryan Yates January 19, 2017 6 Comments
Two photos side by side: on the left, a white woman in her twenties with long brown hair and wearing a red coat and beret and a black woman in a black leather jacket with a gray scarf and beret lean toward each other in a kiss. On the right, the two of them face the camera, smiling. They are under an umbrella in both photos.
Relationships

Queer Crip Love Fest: Nobody Can Go Through This World Alone

In the spirit of gathering our strength and resisting the living hell out of these next four years, I bring you our sweetest installment to date — along with some notes for the revolution.

Carrie January 19, 2017 17 Comments
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