View From The Top: How Topping Taught Me Physics And Feminism
Trusting physics, trusting agency, trusting desire, and trusting the people I played with changed everything.
Life, Death and Surrender: It’s Hard to Know When It’s Time to Say Goodbye
On losing a pet, resilience and vulnerability, human frailty and animal intelligence, and everything that goes into saying goodbye.
Drawn to Comics: Support the Fresh Romance Kickstarter for Cute, Sometimes Queer Romantic Comics
“Fresh Romance is pretty and positive and made with a lot of heart. Having it in print will only let the publication grow and expand, and will allow even more amazing creators the chance to tell their stories!”
25 Unsolved Lesbian TV Mysteries Sarah Shahi’s Nancy Drew Should Investigate
“If Karma isn’t gay for Amy, why does she act so gay for Amy?”
What I Wore: Navigating the Heternormative Patriarchy (Part One)
“When I want to go for a drink at a bar where I know the crowd will be overwhelmingly straight, I take great strides to ensure a look that says I’m both sexually unavailable and I might attempt to convert you to a new religion.”
You Need Help: Is She For Real?
“I now have a million conspiracy theories in my head about the possibility that maybe the girl I met in person was not the same girl writing me these emails.”
The 10 Most Abhorrent Oscar Snubs of the Past 20 Years
“That’s the price you pay for thinking too far ahead, flying too close to the sun.”
50 Ways to Deal with the Aftereffects of Trauma
“The day begins when you say it does: I’m not talking about work. I’m talking about the soul.”
Say My Name, Mey’s My Name Pt. II: Independent (Legally a) Woman
“As I write about my name now, I feel strength, and contentment and comfort and home. I feel more like myself than I ever have before.”
29 Foods My Girlfriend’s Cat Would Like to Cook for Me
“I’ve collected some recipes that (way, way deep down) I think my girlfriend’s cat would secretly like to cook for me.”
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Will Meet You At Sunrise
Consensual non-consent, an electrosex checklist, tumblr is for porn, two things people in long-term relationships are good at, dating as a transfeminine girl and more.
Kate McKinnon Is Carol and Trans Actress Mya Taylor Makes History This Sunday Funday
Puerto Rico did in fact get that lesbian Supreme Court Chief Justice after all, Italy’s same-sex civil unions bill is gaining steam, Taylor Victor is gonna get to wear her badass lesbian tee shirt to school whenever the f*ck she wants, some Peeps re-enacted Hamilton for you, and the Independent Spirit Awards made trans history!
Breaking Down the Apple iOS Back Door Fight
“We can not use a law from 1789 to regulate a digital space in such an overreaching way.”
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Perfect Apartment, Part One
“This is gonna be our first apartment together, so it has to be perfect!”
Boob(s On Your) Tube: Clarke and Lexa Are Totally In Love, Pass It On
The 100 is so unbelievably gay now, Billie Jean King shines on Fresh Off the Boat, and How to Get Away With Murder gets even more convoluted.
We Asked An Actual Entertainment Lawyer: Why Can’t Sony Help Kesha?
There’s only one (horrible) person responsible for the terrifying legal situation Kesha is in, and unfortunately he’s the only person who can actually set her free.
Things I Read That I Love #196: Apparently I Look Like The Fish-Sandwich Type
Topics include Jay-Z, adult braces, heroin, women & guns, tumblr teens, San Jose, the Titanic, murder, teenagers & social media and more!
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Running Toward My Degree Like AHHHHHHHH!
Things that are stressful: my thesis and Jessica Jones. Things that are great: talking with you in the Friday Open Thread! GET IN HERE AND TELL ME ABOUT YOUR WEEK.
The Comment Awards Feet Never Touch The Ground
We’ve got pasta currency, bows for your bush, pond scum and so much more!
Straddler Nation: We Started Meet-Up Groups and You Can, Too!
Welcome to Straddler Nation, a brand-spankin’-new series in which two rockstar meet-up group captains talk to folks building Autostraddle communities IRL around the world. For their first installment, they talked to some folks who started or are taking the reigns over their local groups.