Notes From A Queer Engineer: Artificial Meat, Post-Truth and Committing to Curiosity
Let’s contemplate gender diversity in Star Trek together. Also: have you considered running for political office?
Supergirl Episode 208 Recap: Kiss the Girls That We Want to Kiss
Being an almost-but-not-dead gay woman on a TV show will really force you to sort out your priorities.
Be the Change: Petitions, Postcards, Phonebanks, and You
Learn all about petition campaigns and how to make your voice heard. Then, take action on some campaigns to oppose Trump!
Autostraddle’s Ultimate Team Holigay Gift Guide 2016: What We Want Besides A Revolution
It’s that time again! For the EPIC ENORMOUS gift guide in which all of us tell you what we want and then you go get the things for somebody else.
Anonymous Sex Toy Review: The Gazelle
The Gazelle vibrator combines a classic sex toy shape with lines vaguely evocative of animal traits in a way that’s surprisingly smooth and sleek.
Holigay Gift Guide 2016: New Parents of Human Babies
Did your friend/relative/coworker have a baby recently? Give a gift that shows you see how exhausted they are and you care.
Drawn to Comics: 6 Comics Where the “Alt-Right” Get Their Asses Kicked
If you’re getting tired of watching the news try to make Nazis mainstream again, here are 6 comics to remind you just how great it feels to see a good guy beat up someone from the “Alt-Right.”
Jill Stein Raises Over $6 Million Toward Effort to Recount Votes, Unbreak Our Hearts
Green party presidential candidate Jill Stein isn’t interested in helping Hillary Clinton, but wants fair elections — and a recount in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
New Gay Agenda [Super Secret, Do Not Leak]
The Escalation has officially begun. These are your super-secret marching orders.
Helping You Help Yourself #39
Calling your reps, figuring out what kind of shirt you’re wearing, making babies laugh, saving money, a Wonder Woman tiara, and more!
49 Tremendously Vulgarious Ways “Spy Magazine” Described Casino Operator Donald Trump, 1986-1994
“The world’s top judge of architecture”
Gift Bags For Celebrity Women Who Came Out This Year
This one goes out to Lauren Jauregui, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Sara Ramirez, Gigi Gorgeous, Elizabeth Gilbert, Eva Gutowski, Bella Thorne, Stephanie Beatriz, Aubrey Plaza, Mara Wilson, Rebecca Sugar, Elena Delle, Rowan Blanchard, Amandla Stenberg, Keke Palmer, et al.
Protect Our Community By Supporting The Trans Relief Project Today
The Trans Relief Project is an organization working to help as many trans and gender nonconforming people as possible get updated U.S. identification – passports specifically – before the regulations surrounding those rules potentially change.
5 Simple Ways to Support Autostraddle This Holiday Season (and Year-Round!)
This includes very important holiday shopping information and other ways to help us year-round. Some of the things are free and some cost money but the one and only way to find out is to open this post and then read it! xoxo
Avoiding Inspiration Porn in This Time of Constant Vigilance
Mark my words: Donald Trump will talk a great game about our “amazing bravery” as he gets to work stealing our healthcare. The man knows how to throw out a red herring, and we all need to be ready for this one.
22 Vegetable Recipes for When Your Winter CSA Box Overflows
This one goes out to all my vegetarian and vegan cuties.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Ruining Romance
Sleep orgasms, how to start sexting, third-rail erotica, Millennial relationships through the lens of capitalism, porn after January 20 and more.
Sunday Funday Spent Thanksgiving Riding a Motorcycle with Her Queer Girl Gang and Madonna, So
Madonna spent Thanksgiving at the Ali Forney center, a historic Anglican bishop is overseeing a historically gay occasion, rainbow laces are the new thing in rugby, the Swedes are doing it right again, and more good gay news!
Should You Share This News On Social Media?
While I do agree that our social media platforms and our technology sector need to combat the problem with every algorithm it can muster, I also believe that we as individuals can work faster (and more morally) than companies.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Baopu #28
Thankful to be ungrateful.