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Society + Culture

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.

Carmen April 24, 2016 15 Comments
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 22, April 2016

“it’s amazing how much more grownup writing a column on the internet makes you seem.”

Riese April 24, 2016 35 Comments
NSFW Sunday

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.

Ryan Yates April 24, 2016 6 Comments
Geekery

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.

A.E. Osworth April 23, 2016 19 Comments
Webcomics

Saturday Morning Cartoons: Cat

“…now that you’re all settled, you guys gonna get that cat you’ve been talking about?”

Megan Praz April 23, 2016 7 Comments
TV Show Recaps

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!

Heather Hogan April 22, 2016 51 Comments
Straddleverse

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!

A.E. Osworth April 22, 2016 263 Comments
Straddleverse

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!

Bren April 22, 2016 7 Comments
Literature

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!

Riese April 22, 2016 10 Comments
Community

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.”

Adrian April 22, 2016 36 Comments
Politics + Activism

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.

Rachel April 21, 2016 2 Comments
Music

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.”

Adrian April 21, 2016 28 Comments
Recipes

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.

Maddie April 21, 2016 19 Comments
Money + Work

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.”

Beth April 21, 2016 7 Comments
Geekery

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.”

Heather Hogan April 21, 2016 69 Comments
Playlists

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.

Erin April 21, 2016 36 Comments
TV Show Recaps

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.

Riese April 20, 2016 29 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

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!

Riese April 20, 2016 14 Comments
First Person

In A World Lacking Lesbian Rom Coms, I Made My Own

“Sidetrack is a show largely about my life and my experiences, because after years of watching so much television that erased me, I just wanted to write myself in.”

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya April 20, 2016 14 Comments
Geekery

Notes From A Queer Engineer: Bunker Logistics on “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”

When I think about life underground, I find myself nerdily enthralled with the idea of handling the logistics for such a huge endeavor.

Laura Mandanas April 20, 2016 43 Comments
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