Queer Your Bots: The Bot Builder Roundtable
In which queer bot builders talk bot training, biased data sets and audience awareness in response to Microsoft’s Tay debacle.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Rite of Passage
“I’m gathering my courage…to ask a girl out.”
Boob(s On Your) Tube: Empire’s Dead Lesbians Bring The Death Toll to 152
Let’s hope Pippy and TMI didn’t drive off a cliff during Rosewood’s two-week hiatus.
Campership Alert: We’ve Got a Campership WITH TRAVEL For A Lucky Trans Woman Who Could Use a Break! UPDATED WITH WINNER
Need a break from all the transmisogyny and cissexism of the world? Want to come to California to hang out with a few hundred other queer women and folks on a mountain? Then I’ve got some super great news for you!
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: TV And Teeth
What TV shows are you emotional over right now? Do you have a picture of your dog??? Get in here and tell everyone about it!
The Comment Awards Gets A New Shirt
We’ve got multiple references to The L Word, superheros, Dinah Shore fun and so much more!
Things I Read That I Love #199: A Life-Size Vagina Mascot Runs Around The Field With A Megaphone
Topics include “Men Explain Lolita To Me,” Marcia Clark, Trumplandia, spinsters, the University of Texas Tower shooting, the escort who killed her client in self-defense — I didn’t do this on purpose but this week’s TIRTL is like a treasure trove of kickass female writers.
Tegan And Sara Are Back With “Boyfriend” and “U Turn”
Tegan and Sara’s “Boyfriend” is the anti-“I Kissed A Girl,” and I kinda love it.
Read a F*cking Book: “The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (With Cats!)” Is Everything You Care About
Don’t label me — I’m
a non-het identified
poly pagan witch.
Tennessee Jumps Back on the Anti-Trans Bandwagon, Resurrects Dangerous Bathroom Bill
Tennessee has resurrected its bathroom bill that would hurt trans teens, what really happened with the judge’s verdict on Kesha’s lawsuit, new statistics about sexual assault, and more.
18 Excerpts from Maddie’s Babyqueer Diary, 2005-2007
“I don’t especially want to be gay, but If I was, no big deal, and who knows?”
Southern Songwriter Julien Baker’s Got a Pocketful of Heartbreaking Guitar Tunes
Julien Baker’s artistry is about making the best out of nothing — making light out of the darkest times, carving faith out of doubt, building connections with strangers.
Autostraddle’s International Meet Me at the Record Store Day: The Shopping Guide
Stuff you can buy to store your records, display your records, and brag a lot about your collection of records.
Liquor In The Grapefruits: A Very Easy Negroni
A Negroni is perhaps the easiest cocktail in the world to make—it’s three ingredients and can be built all in one glass.
Serial Lesbian TV Character Killer Strikes Again: “Empire” Murders Two Terrible Women
“If anything, the lesbians should wish for a character like [her] to be killed off since she just preyed on a powerful lesbian in order to fulfill her heterosexual ambitions.”
Faking It Episode 304 Recap: Can Anybody Find Amy Somebody To Love?
This week on “Faking It,” Shane dyes his hair blue for a minute, there’s a new trans character, Amy wants Lauren to star in a documentary about being intersex, Felix comes back and I made you a really neat chart.
Campership Alert: Lunapads Is Sending Someone to A-Camp and It Could Be You!
Lunapads has donated a Campership for A-Camp 2016 happening May 29th to June 3rd! If you didn’t think you were going to Camp this year, you could be wrong.
Playlist: The Most Misandrist Anthems
Dozens of female artists have penned misandrist anthems to help heal our collective rage by commiserating with our frustrations. Here are 19 of them!
Pop Culture Fix: Lesbian TV Characters Keep Dying and also 14 Exciting Queer Things
There’s so many stories in here! The Bury Your Gays conversation is going strong, Ellen DeGeneres’s beard speaks out, Abby Wambach is ashamed of her DUI, Caitlyn Jenner joins the cast of “Transparent,” videos from the GLAAD Awards, new trailers for Salem and “Grace & Frankie,” we mourn the end of The People Vs. OJ Simpson and SO MUCH MORE!
Disability and the Gym: Let My Body Do the Work
“I like toughness because it acknowledges an uncomfortable, complicated truth—that being disabled is hard—but rejects pity as an acceptable response. Instead, it gives my body credit for outlasting, adapting, and thriving in ways able-bodied people can’t imagine.”