18 Cupcakes That Would Almost Definitely Get You To Second Base With Me, If I Were Single
Something else for you to think about: “cupcakes” is a slang term for “boobs.”
22 Lesbian/Bisexual Movie Covers Featuring Women’s Faces Just Inches From Each Other
Women who love women express it like this: with their faces just inches from each other, mouths slightly open like they’re about to kiss but not actually kissing, no, no, no, it’s too taboo, perhaps they will never kiss and just exist in this void until the end of time.
Sunday Funday Will Make Out With You at the Olympics in the Name of Gay Rights
Amazing women taking the Olympics by storm, a kiss-in because who doesn’t love a good kiss-in y’know, pride pride pride, the slow death of anti-gay laws, and more!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Getting Virtually Real
Sex and virtual reality, sex and depression, sex and stagnation and what to do about it. Plus tips for moving out after a breakup, edging, vintage vibrators and more.
10 STEAMy Instagram Accounts To Tantalize Your Brain
Refresh your feed with these science and technology inspired Instagram accounts and make your brain grow three sizes!
Saturday Morning Cartoons: The Dark Side
He’s more Fox News than man now, Meg.
News Fix: Report Finds Baltimore Police Policies Unconstitutional, What a Surprise
The Department of Justice finds the Baltimore Police Department definitely discriminates against Black people, a Houston man gets life in prison for murdering his daughter and her girlfriend, LAPD shot and killed 14-year-old Jesse Romero, there’s a shortage on injectable estrogen and more news stories.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: I Might Be Violating New York City’s Fire Code
Hi! It’s your elusive writer friend, Isabel, and I am here to host my first ever Friday Open Thread! Just as I wrote that, the skies darkened and a thunderclap rattled my windows, so it seems like everyone is excited for this. Right?
12 Amazing Online Sales That’ll Earn You A Gold Medal in the Buying Stuff Relay
Includes 50% off at asos and a special Autostraddle merch discount code. ISN’T CAPITALISM FUN?? DON’T HATE THE PLAYER HATE THE GAME!!
Black Trans Woman Rae’Lynn Thomas is At Least the 19th Trans Person Murdered This Year
She was the light in her family’s life. She was 28 years old. She is the fourth trans woman of color to be murdered in the last six weeks.
Things I Read That I Love #208: To Be Free Of Other People’s Bullshit Is To Be Truly Free
Topics include the American Shopping Mall, going to Disneyworld alone, the Tamir Rice case, a killer in Yosemite, aesthetic homogeneity and so much more.
WATCH: Tegan and Sara Team Up with Bojack Horseman Producer in “Hang On to the Night”
The snakes have boobs! The weird bird people have butts! The horse uses the mountains as a blanket! The video for “Hang On to the Night” has it all!
Trump Contradicts Own Pro-LGBT Stance to Court Anti-Gay Evangelicals (and Not Very Well)
Trump doesn’t have a very strong base among evangelical Christians; can addressing anti-gay pastors in Orlando just two months after the Pulse shooting — and going off-teleprompter — fix that?
A Modern Catalogue of Queer Slang
Falcons, hawks, vultures, buzzards, shikras, kites, caracaras; hell, a lesbian can be any bird of prey.
PHOTOESSAY: Outside Lands Was An Actual Rager
Outside Lands is magical and full of lots of happy faces. Here’s what I saw.
Break Out the OJ: Autostraddle International Brunch Weekend Is Coming Right Up!
International Autostraddle Brunch Weekend will be on August 20 – 22. You should host one! You should go to one! You should eat every last piece of toast in the building!
Follow Your Arrow: Bluestockings Boutique Owner Jeanna Kadlec on LGBT Lingerie
“In business, especially when starting out, you need to be able to embrace risk with open arms, which is a nice way of saying you have no idea how to swim but are jumping in the deep end anyway.”
The Lonely, Infinite Beauty of “No Man’s Sky”
Remember when Skyrim was like, “See that mountain? You can GO THERE”? No Man’s Sky is like that, except with every star in the sky.
Comic: Pride in Portugal
I visited two Pride parades in Portugal and I’m here to tell you all about it!
A-Camp September 2016: It’s Time To Donate To Or Apply For Camperships!
Read these essays and feel inspired to apply for and/or donate to the campership fund for our September 2016 camp in Wisconsin!