Autostraddle’s Spring 2016 Queer TV Preview: So Many Sams, So Little Time
What will we be watching? Who will die first?
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Send Love, Share Love
Send love, share love, get in here with your awesome moments big and small!
Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for April 2016
I hope y’all out there are ready for a change — this is an eventful month! With some fiery Aries energy and a few aspects to Uranus this month (planet of revolution, upheaval, and queerness), you’ll have a few chances to let go of whatever’s been holding you back, and start fresh.
Also.Also.Also: A Queer from North Carolina Gets Real With You and Other Stories for Your Weekend
A cat is skiing, abortions are happening or not, Uggs still, this radical doula I love, eat these things before you drink alcohol, we are buying so very much legal weed wow, Murder House could be yours, Laura Jane Grace talks about titles, Mallory Ortberg writes relatable perfect things, I’m afraid of panthers maiming me and so very much more!
Playlist: You Asked Out a Straight Girl
This happens to a lot of us — like, a lot a lot of us. And we’ve got to laugh it off, what else can we do? I mean, it’s likely to happen again.
Mississippi Passes US’s Most Sweeping Anti-LGBT Rights Bill with HB1523, Strikes Fear into Hearts
Mississippi makes anti-LGBT history with HB1523, police who killed Jamar Clark won’t be charged, new studies about Islamophobia, surveillance and more, and lots on the aftermath of HB2 in North Carolina.
Supergirl’s Feel-Good Feminism is a Bright Spot in a Bleak TV Year
Supergirl’s feminism is definitely 101, but we all had to start somewhere.
A Day of Visibility: Jen Richards Gets Deep and Personal About North Carolina
“I fire off a series of tweets to Governor Pat McCrory, as well as the North Carolina Values Coalition and some public supporters of the bill. The few replies I get make it clear that my arguments have zero impact. This issue will consume my consciousness for the following few days.”
You Should Go: The “Suicide Kale” World Premiere Is This Weekend!
Brittani Nichols, Jasika Nicole, Carly Usdin, Robin Roemer: Literally everyone you’ve ever loved made this movie.
Skydiving in Two Genders: An Essay on Trans Visibility
“I decide I’ll test the durability of a BB cream by Tarte at thousands of feet in the air, then feel ashamed at worrying so much about how I look, then feel the dread again, that all this might go completely wrong, not because I’ll fall to my death, but because I’ll be reduced to my past.”
Lez Liberty Lit #94: How To Find Queer Books
How to find queer books, the new VIDA count, Eileen Myles and literary fame, the singular “they,” experimental feminist reading suggestions and more.
Faking It Episode 303 Recap: I Love Everybody Being Totally Over Me!
This week on Faking It, everybody reads Amy’s diary and you’re probably going to end up in compost detention.
Rebel Girls: Three Dismal Truths We Hold to Be Self-Evident About Women Political Leaders
Here are three completely undeniable and incredibly depressing facts about women, executive political power, and glass ceilings — and cliffs! — around the world.
Pop Culture Fix: These Two Sitcoms About Lesbians of Color Though
Gosh, so much! Like Amandla Stenberg and Rowan Blanchard being “The New Activists,” two TV pilots centered on lesbians of color (one is a Wanda Sykes project!), the history of burying your gays, girls posing as ’90s teen idols and you know, like I said, a lot of things!
This Business of Art Fix #25: Totally Prepared For The Digital Apocalypse
Topics include Gawker losing the Hulk Hogan case, digital media’s lack of geographic diversity, analytics-driven content production, Genius annotating personal sex stories, drinking with your clients and other crucial stories!
No Filter: Tegan And Sara’s Cats Can’t Possibly Be Real
Why would Tegan and Sara lie to us about their cats, Angel Haze isn’t LL Cool J, Jiz Lee isn’t eating a burger and Brittani Nichols (probably) isn’t arresting you.
A Day of Visibility: Mey Rude Feels Lucky to Call Trans Women Her Community
“I feel like every single trans woman of color I know is gorgeous and beautiful and so knowing that I’m one of them, that I’m a part of that community makes me feel infinitely more beautiful than I’ve ever felt in my life.”
Kristen Stewart And Soko: A Romance For The Ages
Everything we know so far about the most important romantic entanglement of 2016.
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal Listens to Large Corporations, Vetoes Anti-Gay Law
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal will veto a “religious freedom” bill; a trans woman is sexually assaulted at Stonewall Inn; the ACLU and Lambda Legal are suing North Carolina officials; Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump’s Campaign Manager, was charged with battery and more news.
On Performing in The Vagina Monologues When You Don’t Have a Vagina
“There’s an annoying song that’s only playing all the way through all day long on some days. Others, I can barely hear the chorus, and others I can’t hear it all. But every day, I know that that song will be there again one day, maybe even tomorrow, maybe even later that same day. And I hate this song.”