“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.”
“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.”
“That’s the price you pay for thinking too far ahead, flying too close to the sun.”
“The day begins when you say it does: I’m not talking about work. I’m talking about the soul.”
“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.”
“I’ve collected some recipes that (way, way deep down) I think my girlfriend’s cat would secretly like to cook for me.”
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.
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!
“We can not use a law from 1789 to regulate a digital space in such an overreaching way.”
“This is gonna be our first apartment together, so it has to be perfect!”
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.
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.
Topics include Jay-Z, adult braces, heroin, women & guns, tumblr teens, San Jose, the Titanic, murder, teenagers & social media and more!
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.
We’ve got pasta currency, bows for your bush, pond scum and so much more!
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.
“I made dinner and our entire website fell apart”
NC Governor Pat McCrory is having a meltdown over a Charlotte ordinance that protects LGBT rights, new data shows that up to half of gay and bisexual black men are at risk for HIV, abortion restrictions go into law in Louisiana, and more news.
Regina George was right: You invite a lesbian to a pool party, and it’s gonna get gay.
“My initial reaction was terror and denial mixed with just shock and despair. It was like my life that I knew was shattered.”