Working On It, Week 13: Leaving It All Out on the Ice
In which ice skating is attempted and sugar is avoided.
2015 Autostraddle Comic and Sequential Art Awards: Winners Include Lumberjanes, Strong Female Protagonist, Bitch Planet
“That’s what these awards are, a deep and profound thank you to all of the people who make us glad that we didn’t listen when we were told that girls don’t read comics.”
Faking It Episode 214 Recap: So Liberal With Her Scissors and Other Things
This week on Faking It, Lauren and Amy dress up like A and creep around the No-Tell Motel while their pals live it up in Los Angeles!
The A+ Bee Issue Twenty-Seven: It’s Always Bee-n You
This issue has the next chapter in Gay-dventure, a playlist you can all relate to, the winner of the Haiku contest, and the gayest puzzle ever.
Queer New York Fashion Week: A Parade of Bold Ideas and Fresh Faces
With the stunning Beaux-Arts Court at the Brooklyn Museum as its backdrop, eight queer designers donned their queer, trans, fat, brown and disabled models in an exclusive first look at this season’s boldest, brightest, queerest and most dapper Spring/Summer collections.
Helping You Help Yourself #13
Untangle your necklace, can your extra tomatoes, use up the last of the mustard productively, make your customer service phone calls less terrible and more!
33 Fig Recipes For When You Just Have A Craving
These fig recipes will help you get more figs into your face at every meal.
Style Thief: Get Nicolette Mason’s Bold Femme Style
Love Nicolette Mason’s sweet yet poised style? Here’s how to get it for yourself.
Uzo Aduba and Viola Davis Make History At The Most Feminist Emmy Awards Ever
Openly gay writers/directors Lisa Cholodenko and Jane Anderson took home trophies. Jane Lynch snagged another win. And Transparent pulled down three Emmys, too!
Sunday Funday is Putting LGBT Rights in Writing Around the Globe
I’ve got good news for you, from Nepal to Argentina to Scotland and back!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Wants To Be All Over You
What to do at your first orgy; horny cognitive dissonance; how to spank; how many people you’ve really had sex with; and more.
A Gay Girl’s Guide To Fall 2015 TV
Despite tepid reviews for most of this fall’s new shows, we’ve got plenty of new and returning lesbian and bisexual characters to be very excited about as well as quite a few lady-helmed productions.
The Lightest, Cheapest Computer for Work and School Ever, Part I
Let me take you on the journey with me to get the lightest, cheapest computer for work and school ever. First stop, Chromebook.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Universes
In which there are universes inside everyone.
The Comment Awards Are A Piece Of Cake
Gal pals, lazy femmes and loads more icing on your cake from the School of Autostraddle
Fan Fiction Friday: Jane the Virgin Stories, an Interview With a Fan Fic Pro and Even More Fandom Delights
Welcome to the all-new Fan Fiction Friday, now with even more features and fandom celebrations!
Taco Tuesday: Blurring The Line Between Appreciation and Appropriation
“There’s a bad taste in my mouth when white restaurant owners co-opt tacos for profits and white foodies venture for the most “authentic” tacos as a badge to show off their own expansive tastes because in both cases they’re taking parts of a culture they enjoy and commodifying it, all while disregarding the parts they don’t care for.”
How to Stop Biting Your F*cking Nails
There is a world in which your nails do not bleed onto paper and you don’t want to cry from how much it hurts to do anything with your hands (which is a lot of things), and it is a world you could most definitely come to live in in time.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Tell Me About Your Shoes
OMG SHOES! Tell me about your favorite shoes. Or what your shoes say about you as a human person. Or how you feel about the word “loafers.” Get in here!
Lez Liberty Lit #80: Stories Are What You Make Them
The Hitchhiker’s Guide and loving problematic things; The Argonauts and embracing but not constraining queerness; writing about race and representation; queer books with bi characters and more.