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!
Spend an evening with a good book and a paddle.
Also, Janelle Monáe visited the White House and Ruby Rose fired her beard.
Welp. It was fun while it lasted.
“I really really want to like going down on her, but I don’t. It feels overwhelming — the smell, the taste, the trouble breathing.”
Don’t give Trump a moment to get comfortable. Let’s start fucking shit up as soon as he starts being sworn in.
Chelsea Manning is set to be freed in May 2017 instead of finishing her 35-year sentence, which would have ended in 2045.
New year new you.
Harper Row, also known as Bluebird, came out as bisexual in December, and now in Detective Comics #948, a new trans woman supporting character, Dr. Victoria October was introduced and is joining the cast.
If you’re gonna be enrolled in a degree-granting undergraduate or graduate program come the Fall of 2017, this scholarship is for you.
In the beginning checking in all the time was useful. But after six months of it, Sarah was getting annoyed.
When the walls of my life seemed to be crumbling in on me from every angle, I knew someone would pay. That someone was usually me.
“For me, as a Black Trans Woman, to find her body not only as something worthy and magnificent (as it is), but to find someone to share that magick with, may very well be one of the only moments she has to enjoy a trying and very taxing life — one that’s always trying to kill her.”
From jelly “the colour of sadness” to giant cakes and turtle soup, I’ve got a menu you’ll probably want to replicate at home while your cat screams into a pillow.
“Obamacare turned me from a liability into a full citizen worth protecting, and to see it roll backward instead of march forward would be a stain on our national history and an immediate threat to countless people.”
Everything you want to read.
Going to the Women’s March on Washington or a solidarity event near you? I have some tips!
I got in bed with Autostraddle for the first time on Thursday on Facebook Live! If you missed it, I’ve got the video for you right here.
50 ways to ghost your lover, why you have a type, college hookups and early sexuality, embracing asexuality, “pornographic vending machines” and more.
This is the last Sunday Funday before Donald Trump becomes the fucking president. Drink it in, kids.