“There’s a bad taste in my mouth when white restaurant owners co-opt tacos for profits and white foodies venture for the most “authentic” tacos as a badge to show off their own expansive tastes because in both cases they’re taking parts of a culture they enjoy and commodifying it, all while disregarding the parts they don’t care for.”
There is a world in which your nails do not bleed onto paper and you don’t want to cry from how much it hurts to do anything with your hands (which is a lot of things), and it is a world you could most definitely come to live in in time.
OMG SHOES! Tell me about your favorite shoes. Or what your shoes say about you as a human person. Or how you feel about the word “loafers.” Get in here!
The Hitchhiker’s Guide and loving problematic things; The Argonauts and embracing but not constraining queerness; writing about race and representation; queer books with bi characters and more.
Ahmed Mohamed thanks his supporters, the killer of trans woman Janette Tovar is only getting probation, new studies galore, and much more news.
Is there anything like spending a rainy day in bed wearing pajamas? How do you feel about puff pastry? Misandry feelings? What are some good happy/fun book ideas for your LGBT book club? Find the answers to these questions and more, inside this very post!
I went to Tennessee and found freedom and a sense of adventure. And the best keychain ever.
What are the pressing issues of the day as revealed by the Republican candidates at last night’s GOP debate? Besides their ideal Secret Service names.
To help you along, we’ve rounded up Autostraddle team members to tell you about their favourite mirrorless cameras and lenses and why they love them.
Tinder is not a very good place for making friends.
The girl game movement was a briefly lived golden era of pink-wrapped PC games made for, and marketed to, young girls. Get in here for some gaming history!
From labor rights to environmental justice, these women organized with gender in mind outside of the feminist movement.
Happy Ad-Blocker-For-Mobile Debuts Day! Also we’re talking about the rise of the first-person confessional essay, an article about us, Slack, Rookie, Taag Magazine and so much more!
Cookie is (maybe) going to be queer on Empire, Mulan will return to Once Upon a Time, women are still underrepresented on television, and Caitlyn Jenner clarifies her position on marriage equality.
I’m reading a book about hackers right now and feel like maybe some of y’all want to join me. Just a feeling I had.
Evan Rachel Wood is IN an Instagram photo, which is almost like her having Instagram! Also Ellen Page, Laverne Cox and Bette friggin’ Porter.
How to explore kinky sex with a kinky partner when you have no experience whatsoever.
“If someone had been like, “You are going to write a thing and it’s going to be fully produced and you are gonna star in it and it’s gonna be really good,” I would’ve been like, nah.”
“I remember everything: what normal felt like all through college in my relationship with her — an attractive and charismatic woman who was also a compulsive liar and an abusive lover. Of course it didn’t start out that way. Insane realities rarely do.”
Dive right into all we know about Ellen Page’s outing with her girlfriend Samantha Thomas and Hannah Hart’s relationship with Ingrid Nilsen.