Countdown to Baby T. Rex: Crying Over MasterChef Junior and Halfway There (23 Weeks)
I’m not a crier. I really resist the idea that hormones affect me, but pregnancy hormones affect me. OMG.
5 Things I Learned from “The Gutsy Girl”
“The Gutsy Girl” is part memoir, part instruction manual, part unbelievable true adventure tale. It’s also a New York Times bestseller, which gives a hint about how ready we all are for a no-holds-barred hurrah for bravery now that we’ve integrated the term “impostor syndrome” into our mental catalogue of what’s holding us back.
Sunday Funday Came Out as Non-Binary to President Obama On The Way To Mount Mitchell
President Obama dissed anti-LGBT laws and then someone came out to him, more and more folks are exacting sweet revenge against HB2 — on mountaintops and in courtrooms, an alpaca in here just got a haircut and Angelica Ross won Best Actress.
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 22, April 2016
“it’s amazing how much more grownup writing a column on the internet makes you seem.”
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Will Eat You Like An Edible Arrangement
The first time you sleep over, cognitive similarities between kink and meditation, how rejecting trans women’s sexuality comes from rejecting any women’s sexuality, sex toys and industrial design, and more.
See You In Fallen London’s New iOS App, Delicious Friends!
Exactly what it says on the box. Fallen London has an iOS app. It’s also pretty gay. Let’s play.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Cat
“…now that you’re all settled, you guys gonna get that cat you’ve been talking about?”
Boob(s On Your) Tube: Root and Shaw Are Getting Ready To Rip Each Other’s Clothes Off
Person of Interest really, truly is going gay. Orphan Black’s fourth season continues to be spectacular. Brittani Nichols is in a new series on IFC. Raven-Symone returns to Black-ish. And even more queer TV!
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: A Selfie Story About You
Help me embrace the selfie by telling me all about your week using selfies. Or, you know, whatever else you wanna talk about. GET IN HERE!
The Comment Awards Strongly Believes in Breakfast Foods for Dinner
We’ve got brilliant ideas relating to socks, procrastination, pizza prepared by Mariah Carey and so much more!
Things I Read That I Love #200: Humour Can Be a Callous Protection Against The Terrible
Topics include Tonya / Marcia / Monica / Anita, true crime TV, sugar, marijuana, Ben & Jerrys, rape culture, identity clickbait, Lifetime and more!
Prom Roundtable: The Magical Night Of Memories of Our Collective Lives
“My date got incredibly drunk and ended up passing out in the back of the limo, facedown in my boobs. It was not the romantic prom story I felt I’d been promised.”
LGBT Youth Get New GSA Name and Tagline; LGBT Elders Get Left Out of Key Legislation
The GSA is now more inclusive of all genders and sexualities but the Older Americans Act isn’t inclusive of LGBT elders; Islan Nettles’ killer will go to prison for 12 years; progress on Merrick Garland’s confirmation, a congresswoman crusading against online harassment and more.
Prince Is Dead, We Must Find Our Eyeliner And Keep Dancing
“Prince — the musician, the icon, the gender-bending dreamboat — taught me that the best and only thing I can be is exactly whatever I am. It doesn’t have to make sense to anyone else as long as it keeps me alive and sparkling.”
Soggy Bottoms: Rough Puff Pastry Is Like Classic Puff Pastry, But Easier
This is ROUGH PUFF (ruff puff? rough pough?) and it’s a lot less precise than “regular puff,” and therefore it’s easier for the first-timer. Like you. Like us.
Follow Your Arrow: Artist and Priestess Rebekah Erev on Making Spirituality Accessible to All
“I think a lot of us [queers] have turned to art as a place to find meaning and access other realms. Art explains the unexplainable and gives us a space to explore the mysteries we are so fascinated by.”
7 Feminist Conundrums I Faced Playing “Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate” (With a Female Character!)
Evie is perfectly capable of defeating every enemy in this quest on her own and she’s not going to make it harder on herself just so she can make a man feel included in her triumphs! I did not “use Henry’s distraction.”
Playlist: The Last La Croix is Gone
You drag your limp body as penance from the bed into the kitchen to pray at its effervescent, sodium-free altar — but the gods are not pleased. The last La Croix is gone.
Faking It Episode 306 Recap: This Is Where The Kissing Usually Happens
This week on “Faking It,” everybody goes to a haunted hook-up party and it turns out Amy isn’t the only lady-loving lady in Hester High. Also, the mid-season trailer teases some girl-on-girl action.
Pop Culture Fix: Mother May I Sleep With Lifetime’s Feminist Lineup
Topics include 55 LGBT Power Couples, Janet Mock in People’s Most Beautiful Issue, all the rad new TV shows a freshly feminist Lifetime channel is making for you, a film called “Women Who Kill” that sounds f*cking spectacular and so much more!