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.
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.
Pop Culture Fix: Gaby Dunn and Allison Are Making a Cool P.I. Show For You and Other Pop Culture News
Gaby Dunn & Allison Raskin developing a series called “Everyone’s a Liar” for YouTube Red, a same-sex hookup on America’s Next Top Model, queer dramz on Degrassi, a Will & Grace revival and other important pop culture stories for your day!
It’s Completely Legal To Think Nia Long and Idina Menzel Are A Couple In This Trailer for Lifetime’s “Beaches” Remake
How lucky that I’m perfectly within my right as a citizen to disregard the original plot of a movie that’s been out for 28 years and choose to instead interpret their connection as romantic and not platonic.
If You Show Me Yours I’ll Show You Mine: Autostraddle Staffers’ Tinder Profiles
In my opinion, a good Tinder profile is more important than good hygiene.
This Business of Art Fix: Fake News From Sick People
Topics include press freedom in the age of Trump, layoffs and restructuring at the Medium network and Fusion, The Establishment’s new membership program, email follow-ups that’ll get you in trouble, The Washington Post’s new splashy app for millennial women, and pitches we’re currently looking for!
8 Lesbian BDSM Novels to Curl Your Toes (and Maybe Melt Your Heart)
Spend an evening with a good book and a paddle.
No Filter: The Pure, Unadulterated Joy Of Gabby Rivera In This Cruel, Cruel World
Also, Janelle Monáe visited the White House and Ruby Rose fired her beard.
Foolish Child #14: Thank You, Obama Family
Welp. It was fun while it lasted.
You Need Help: Why Don’t I Like Going Down On My Girlfriend?
“I really really want to like going down on her, but I don’t. It feels overwhelming — the smell, the taste, the trouble breathing.”
Rebel Girls: 10 Ways to Resist on Inauguration Day
Don’t give Trump a moment to get comfortable. Let’s start fucking shit up as soon as he starts being sworn in.
Some Really Actually Good News: Obama Commutes Most of Incarcerated Trans Woman Chelsea Manning’s Sentence
Chelsea Manning is set to be freed in May 2017 instead of finishing her 35-year sentence, which would have ended in 2045.
The New York Times Wants You To Come Out To Your Parents I Guess?
New year new you.