Often, when I’m having sex, a very specific thought runs through my head on a loop: “don’t touch me.” What gives? If I get so much out of being close to other people, shouldn’t sex be the ultimate way to prove it?
Who’s up.
Soda tastings are great if you’re underage, you and/or your friends don’t drink alcohol, or you just want to mix it up. Also, soda’s way cheaper than wine. Wine tastings are so 2000 and late.
Links upon links upon more links! Three women stop a rape, Ellen wants to be the Vice President, U.S. women’s soccer team is ready to strike, Mars and Earth are getting cozy, $300 vagina massages, lesbian adoption, Colonial intersex history, Harry Potter Constitution lessons, Peaches and more, more, more!
Getting back in touch with old friends despite awkwardness, what to do if you’re being underpaid, freshening up your mattress, organizing your tea and more!
14 recipes for leftover crawfish boil tails hanging out in your freezer.
This week we’ve got cat allergies, gay Life, short fiction and so much more!
Excerpts from super hot queer erotica short stories just for you.
Kate Brown opens up about her queerness in a commencement speech, a US Rep has no time for transphobia, Stephen Colbert just slammed Trump’s bathroom buffoonery, a whole lot of celebs like you, and more good news!
Google’s open hardware platform for creating modular smartphones is back, but it’s different.
“Nope nope nope. I’m Cameron.”
I have A-Camp FOMO, feelings about long distance besties, Joan Didion quotes and a lot of potato chips. Get in here and talk to me about it.
Studying abroad or going long distance isn’t a death knell for a relationship, but I’m hearing something else in your question.
This week I’m a short short enthusiast, an Earth Mother, and a Mother Earth stan.
“Instead, I jump back into the mind of the girlish woman I was at 28, the one who didn’t know enough about the consequences for unacceptable motherhood to plunge headfirst into the fire. It has taken me much longer than my mother to see the gift of my own naiveté.”
The lawsuit in response to the Obama administration’s guidelines on trans bathroom usage in schools, Desmond Tutu’s daughter can’t officiate as a priest after marrying her wife, backlash against the Safe Schools Coalition in Australia and more.
Feel free to say: “SOS, send help, everyone is too good-looking!”
Our number one feeling is always Alex Vega.
Babeland workers successfully organized and won the fight to unionize at their NYC locations. Nothing is hotter than getting your toys from a sex positive store that’s also union-strong!
Autostraddle has been around for SEVEN years, and we’ve been making playlists that whole damn time!