Helping You Help Yourself #36
Zip up a dress by yourself! Motivate yourself to cook! Keep tabs from autoplaying sound! Address that jerk who keeps interrupting you!
Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for October 2016
A pile of gigantic, fiery-hearted monsters sleeping sweetly together is a good metaphor for this month. Even the gruffest, most cynical, and most wounded amongst us should be able to find some kind of sweet solace this month. But that doesn’t mean all our problems will disappear.
Transparent’s Third Season Is Beautiful, Heartbreaking And Occasionally Infuriating
This is a highlight reel of the highs and lows of the trans storylines in Transparent’s third season.
“Carmilla” Season Three, Act Two Recap: Office Furniture-Related Slips
Laura and Carmilla drop the pretense of “office furniture-related slips” and (re)confess their love for each other.
18 Savory Pies To Keep You Warm And Full This Fall
Savory pies (and tarts and galettes, too) that will keep you warm and happy and full even as chilly weather and crispy leaves descend from above.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Abuzz
Counterfeit sex toys, the secret history of graham crackers and masturbation, and some smut just for you.
Sunday Funday is Engayged to a Princess
Edie Windsor got married, Lil Wayne once officiated a gay marriage, these two lesbians dressed up like princesses before they got married, and lots of other good gay news that isn’t even about marriage!
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 27, September 2016
“Drink with nerds and feel good about people calling you mom.”
This Was The Best Ever Lesbians Who Tech Summit
Politics, Black Lives Matter, Flawed Data, Weed—all were discussed at Lesbians Who Tech, proving that there’s no other technology conference like it.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Baopu #26
“I saw the back wall of my heart in your mind.”
Somos Familia: Showing Up For Our Queer Family in the Rio Grande Valley
Finally I got to be unapologetically queer amongst this familia that came together in the face of rejection from the homes we came from or by the systems that governed us in the US/Mexico border community that is the Rio Grande Valley.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: I’m Not at A-Camp Either, Come Thru
Come gather round the virtual campfire kindled by my deep and unassuming love for you and tell me everything!
The Comment Awards Longs for Mt. Feelings
This week we’ve got floral metaphors, zucchini feelings, both pro and con, haikus and so much more!
Wonder Woman Is Obviously Queer, Deal With It
Greg Rucka, the man behind Batwoman and Renee Montoya, says categorically that Wonder Woman is (and always has been) queer.
Anonymous Sex Toy Review: The Bouncer Dildo
Using the Bouncer dildo is like fucking with kegel balls you can actually feel.
Lez Liberty Lit: Take A Break When You Need One
Feminist coloring books, favorite bi+ books of 2016 (so far), publishing algorithms, when sometimes you read less than other times and more.
Sometimes We Have Fun Online: More Internet Haikus
Grandparents getting catfished, subtweeting, Brangelina memes and more!
Queer Latinx Love is Resistance: A Collection of Vignettes
“There’s nothing more I want to remember than every moment and sensation we shared. Our grinding hips at Queer Cumbia, feeling your drunken sweat drip onto my freshly implanted tits. The way we sloppily made out and smeared our red and burgundy lips all over our mouths, noses, forehead, and neck.”
Pop Culture Fix: Madonna’s Got Rosie’s Back And Don’t You Forget It
Also: Sarah Paulson says this season of AHS is the weirdest (because it’s not weird). Amandla Stenberg will star in the Darkest Minds trilogy. The new animated film Storks has a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it lesbian couple. And more Pop Culture news!
Meet The First Four Women Who Moderated Presidential Debates
What does a female moderator actually do to shift discourse? What impact have they had? It turns out, looking at their stories and experiences, that gender still permeates the debates — and their ability to have an impact on the conversation.