The Comment Awards Is Thankful For Comments
This week we’re thankful for gay weddings, bodysuits, garlic and so much more!
20% Off EVERYTHING In The Autostraddle Store Including New Gal Pal Hoodies!
OH MY GOSH LOOK AT THIS! IT’S A MAGICAL SALE! Plus we have black Gal Pal hoodies and a Black Gradient Scissoring Tee and more cool new shit on the way!
Lez Liberty Lit: Reading For Resilience
Post-election reading recommendations, endless love for Zadie Smith, new Joan Didion, how we talk about women’s lives and more.
Texas Introduces Two Anti-LGBT Bills, Ushering In New Era of Legislative Hell on Earth
Looking at SB92 and SB242, two bills introduced in Texas that would be a huge blow to the LGBT community there, and what we can expect in terms of legislation like this at the state and federal level going forward.
Pop Culture Fix: Everything Is Terrible Except For Ellen Receiving Her Presidential Medal of Freedom
Okay FINE, Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor are still adorable. Plus Alison Bechdel drew her first Dykes to Watch Out For in eight years, Luisa’s getting a new love interest on Jane the Virgin, Hamilton is not here to apologize & more pop culture news for your Thanksgiving.
Finally Free! Four Wrongfully Convicted Latina Lesbians Cleared on All Charges by Texas Court
More than twenty years since they were convicted of a horrific crime, a Texas criminal appeals court declared four Latina lesbians innocent and exonerated. The San Antonio Four’s exoneration serves as a ray of hope in these dark times and reminds us to continue to fight like hell for justice.
Team Pick: Play Games, Support Both Planned Parenthood and The ACLU
100% of your money when you buy this bundle of 151 items is split between The ACLU and Planned Parenthood.
Bright Lite Magazine Empowers Preteen Girls, Restores Our Faith in Humanity
Enter Bright Lite — the badass magazine for girls that, true to its name, will bring light to your world, a grin to your face, and much-needed hope to your heart.
Rebel Girls: A Reading List for the Revolution
This election shook me to my core. That’s undeniable. I am still grieving and I don’t know that I ever won’t be. I am so fucking angry and I don’t know that I ever won’t be. But I refuse to be scared, or cowed, or defeated.
Foolish Child #10: The United States of Authoritarian Rule Bingo
Convince the privilege they’re oppressed? Check!
Holigay Gift Guide 2016: Buying Someone A Sex Toy? Start Here.
Whether you want to say “I love you,” “I have a crush on you,” or “I genuinely want you to be happy and maybe have a lot of orgasms,” we’ve got the sex toys for you.
No Filter: We All Need This Picture Of Stephanie Beatriz Today
In which Jenny Owen Youngs is starting a new life among the ostriches, Ruby Rose is reunited with her iconic BFF and Brittani Nichols has a dance for you.
Supergirl Episode 207 Recap: The F Word
Maggie wants to be friends. Alex does not want that. Alex wants so much more than that.
Four Femme Ways To Wear Bodysuits This Fall
How to wear this season’s (probably) hottest trends — if instead of wearing any other clothes you just really want to wear bodysuits.
Now More Than Ever: Navigating the Heteronormative Patriarchy in a Post-Trump World
What I wore on Election Day and Post-Trump.
Tila Tequila What The Fuck: Former MTV Star Now Identifies as “Literally Hitler”
How the bisexual social media star at the heart of MTV’s “A Shot at Love With Tila Tequila” became a symbol of white nationalism, or why I never want to look at the Internet ever again.
How To Cook Vegducken (Or: How to Spend Thanksgiving Heartsick and Far From Home)
“I get up off the floor, reach for a long, heavy leek and a cutting board and my favorite knife, its weight in my palm like an amulet. I feel like a stranger in my own life, but I have seven hours and eight dishes left. There is work to be done.”
View From The Top: Aftercare For Tops
“Perhaps trust is my biggest kink. That would explain a lot.”
Aggressively Adorable Gifts to Make the Long-Distance Dating Struggle a Little Easier
Ease the sting of distance with these mostly practical (but yes, some are sappy… DISTANCE IS HARD, y’all) gifts.
Feelings Rookie: The Terror of Hope
Hope is light, hope is all that is good, hope is what keeps humans alive when all other circumstances say they should be dead. So why was I so afraid of this life-giving feeling?