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22 Smoothie Recipes To Freeze (And Fuel) Your Brain (And Body)

Nothing is better than cold fruit giving you a brain freeze on a warm day. It makes you feel alive and invigorated!

Ari May 2, 2016 8 Comments
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Helping You Help Yourself #26

Good coffee for lazy people. accomplishing things while you’re depressed, putting the duvet cover on your comforter, and more.

Rachel May 2, 2016 30 Comments
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Lily Tomlin and Viola Davis Rip North Carolina’s Anti-Trans Laws This Sunday Funday

Gay marriage is finally official in Colombia, two Italian women just adopted each other’s kids, the Dems are fighting for the Equality Act and Sioux Falls is stepping up, and everyone (still) hates North Carolina’s HB2.

Carmen May 1, 2016 4 Comments
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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Will Meet You Inside

Non-monogamy gets bigger than ever, everything you’ve always wanted to know about fish orgies, what to say if someone might be flirting with you and more.

Ryan Yates May 1, 2016 16 Comments
Geekery

The 7 Very Coolest Things I Found At NY Tech Day

“I decided to only visit tables with at least one woman behind them. It’s such a low bar; it cut out a lot of tables.”

A.E. Osworth April 30, 2016 10 Comments
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Saturday Morning Cartoons: Big Monster

“Wait, where’s the little monster? It’s usually here by now making me panic or cry or something.”

Cameron April 30, 2016 19 Comments
TV Show Recaps

Boob(s On Your) Tube: “Grey’s Anatomy” Gets Ready For Lesbian Divorce Court

Things are getting even dumber between Arizona and Callie, and Cookie has finally met her match!

Heather Hogan April 29, 2016 50 Comments
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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Take Me Back to Wonderland

Go down the rabbit hole with me and tell me all about your weekend plans or drug-induced hallucinations or best mac and cheese recipe or whatever.

KaeLyn April 29, 2016 255 Comments
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The Comment Awards Really Get You

We’ve got alpacas, blood oaths, mozzarella sticks and so much more!

Bren April 29, 2016 7 Comments
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Also.Also.Also: Lesbian Without ID Is Forcibly Removed from a Restroom and Other, Brighter Stories

I have negative feelings about sad uncomfortable men, lots of bird pictures you’ll love, ugly crying, a teacher fired for saying “vagina,” empowered women in ads and so very much more!

Laneia April 29, 2016 61 Comments
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What I Wore: Navigating the Heteronormative Patriarchy, Pt. 3

This outfit consisting of a rapidly deteriorating sweater, pleather pants, and a jacket made into a demi-skirt flashed me forward into a dystopian future where water is scarce but total gender/orientation presentation acceptance is not.

Erin April 29, 2016 68 Comments
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105 Trans Women On American TV: A History and Analysis

Autostraddle walks you through the entire history of trans female characters on American television from 1965-2015.

Riese April 28, 2016 142 Comments
Politics + Activism

Oxford, Alabama Takes Anti-Trans Bathroom Bills to a New, Dire Level

One city in Alabama has drawn a new line in the sand with bathroom bills, organizing against police violence, a bill about counselors in TN that’s dangerous for LGBT people, and more.

Rachel April 28, 2016 28 Comments
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Mama Outsider: No Place Like Home

“Every day since my father died has been at least a little fucked up. There is no such thing as a non-fucked up day when you are a Daddy’s girl without a father.”

Asha April 28, 2016 36 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit #96: Some Books Are Flowers, Some Are Weeds

Jeanette Winterson and personal growth, weeding out books and library collections, whether or not copy editing is dead and more.

Ryan Yates April 28, 2016 15 Comments
Money + Work

9 PR Email Lists I’m Not Sure How I Got Added To

I don’t even know what materials research is. (Please don’t tell me.)

Rachel April 28, 2016 19 Comments
TV Show Recaps

Faking It Episode 307: What Dreams Of Fake Lesbianism May Come

This week on Faking It, everybody has a great time at Game Night and Karma gets very jealous about the new girl in town!

Riese April 27, 2016 55 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: The Lexa Pledge Hopes To Change Queer TV From The Inside

The Lexa Pledge will make sure Lexa didn’t die in vain, Steven Universe’s gayest episode is getting its own book, The Fosters is on Netflix now, Gillian Anderson wants to talk to you about her bisexuality, and so much more pop culture news!

Heather Hogan April 27, 2016 34 Comments
Music

Tegan and Sara’s “Boyfriend” Video Was So Much Gayer In My Imagination

“If you were hoping for some sort of visual depiction of that classically gay narrative in their eagerly anticipated video for ‘Boyfriend,’ released this morning on Pitchfork, that’s not what you’ll find.”

Maddie April 27, 2016 51 Comments
Money + Work

This Business Of Art #27: Your Problem Is That You Make A Lot Of Cheap Shit

Topics include bold ladies, The Awl co-founder getting his first “real job,” a new Facebook algorithm, additional ad-blocking-related panic, a profitable “college paper on steroids” supported by 10, 0000 unpaid writers and more!

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