Autostraddle + Sorte: A Merch Match Made In Heaven
We’re collaborating with Venezuelan design and clothing company Sorte Tienda to bring handmade, screenprinted, and very queer t-shirts into your life.
Fool’s Journey: The Key Cards That Make or Break a Tarot Deck
When I’m looking at new tarot decks, there are a few particular cards I like to check out first, to see how the artist has interpreted them.
AfterEllen Is Shutting Down
AfterEllen’s contribution to lesbian and bisexual visibility is incalculable. Friday is the website’s last day.
Wisconsin Lesbian Couple Win Discrimination Lawsuit Over Their Child’s Birth Certificate
A federal judge ruled last Wednesday that Wisconsin officials discriminated against a married lesbian couple for not allowing the non-biological mother’s name on their child’s birth certificate.
A Gay Girl’s Guide to Fall 2016 TV: Featuring All The Queer Lady Characters Who Haven’t Died (Yet)
Sappho protect us.
Drawn to Comics: Power & Magic Brings Women of Color and Witches Together in The Best Anthology Ever
“I hope queer readers of color walk away with that slightly breathless feeling that happens after finishing a great story. I want that to occur without the awful heart-sinking anxiety that wells in your chest when you realize no one in the story looks or loves like you do (again).”
Annotated: Julia Nunes, “All The Same”
“Hi, I’m Julia Nunes and I’m a recovering people pleaser.”
Pumpkin Spice Lattes: Brought to You By Brown & Indigenous People
As a smol, Brown consumer of Pumpkin Spice Lattes, I want to make the case that the PSL is *not* the Basic One in that latte-white girl relationship.
Bottoms Up: Sad, Solo, Submissive
Be the daddy you want to see in the world.
Relevant To Your Interests: All Aliens, All the Time
Been watching things about aliens lately? Well here we are with some alien-type goods for your everyday wear and use.
Lord Ivar Mountbatten is Bisexual, First Member of Royal Family to Come Out
Lord Ivar Mountbatten, cousin to Queen Elizabeth, has become the first member of the British Royal Family to come out.
Queer Women Take Over The 2016 Emmys
Kate McKinnon and Sarah Paulson and Jill Soloway (and Ellen and Hillary and Laverne and Tatiana Maslany and Regina King and Marcia Clark and Holland Taylor), oh my!
It’s Autostraddle Babe-B-Q Season Again!
You’ve got one wild and precious life to live. Why not spend a day of it with a spatula in your hand while someone else preps the Tofurkey sausages and then sit back in a lawn chair and put some coleslaw in your face surrounded by a bunch of people you’ll soon find yourself hopelessly in love with?
Telling Myself the Truth: 5 Strategies for Fighting Internalized Ableism
“…it’s still completely acceptable for disabled people to hate ourselves.”
Helping You Help Yourself #35
Building credit, innovative DIY dog toys, when self-care isn’t fun, a plant you really actually can’t kill (we hope), and more.
Rise and Grind: Become a Mortar and Pestle Snob With These 25 Recipes
Food processors are for 21st-century chumps. Go old-school and feel so much better than your technology-dependent friends.
Whoopi Goldberg Is Celebrating Trans People of Color This Sunday Funday
Whoopi Goldberg’s new show, Strut, focuses on a trans modeling agency. Idina Menzel is still on board with making Elsa Gay. And 2016 Pride marches on!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Loves Spanking
Why people love spanking, why prop 60 is bad, why being a badass and a bottom is not a contradiction, why it’s hard to come out as non-monogamous and more.
Acknowledge Your Universal Truth In This New Jane Austen MMO
No one who had ever seen MMOs in their infancy would have supposed them to be taken over by Janeites.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Ready for Fall
We’re hyped. For Fall. Please insert your Fall feelings here.