Topics include working at Disney, the real lives of Sugar Daddies, Michael Derrick Hudson in context, the ghost town of Bodie, Live Aid, an essay that made me cry and so much more!
We’ve been hosting Autostraddle meet-ups for years, and now I want you to report back on the good, the best, and the warm and fuzzy. Get in here!
Really unclear why we didn’t spend at least one semester reading Emily Dickinson’s love letters to her girlfriend.
Do you ever wonder how Ellen Page likes her eggs cooked? What Laverne Cox got up to last night? Whether or not Sara Quin’s old cat is jealous of her new cat? Do you ever wonder how much merch Autostraddle staffers wear, really?
This week I will pack up my (brand new!) car, and I will probably cry, a lot, and I will put some stuff in the mail, and I will take a million photos, and I will drive across the country.
The entire story of our entire trip from California to Michigan and also all the bigger stories and the smaller ones, too.
“What your clients come to you for will be a huge signal for what your focus could be. They are attracted to a certain quality within you. If you pay attention, your clients will call it out from within you. My clients were speaking to me all along. It took a while, but I listened in and came to my true focus. It takes time. Let yourself grow. It is a sacred journey.”
Mike Huckabee is running on a Kim Davis platform, Baltimore offers a settlement to Freddie Gray’s family, James Blake is tackled by NYPD officers and more.
I’d known for a while that my colleague Colleen McKee had a book out, and one day I bought a copy from her in the break room. When I learned that it combined memoir, poetry, and fiction, I had one burning question: “Who let you do that?!”
While we await new episodes of our favorite regular season shows, we thought it would be a good time to address the thing you really care about: Which lesbian/bisexual TV characters would be the best to U-Haul with?
Where tarot tells us about what’s going on in our lives in this specific moment, astrology shows us patterns established the moment we were born, and that ring out throughout every day of our lives. An understanding of one necessarily enhances our understanding of the other — so here are some ways to pair ’em up.
I’ll be thinking of Nancy M. Johnson’s invention today as I eat ice cream with my lunch. And afternoon snack. And dinner.
Chris Brown stands up a gay party for being too gay, Ellen DeGeneres talks to Caitlyn Jenner about same-sex marriage, Bangladesh gets its first lesbian cartoon character, new music from Christine & The Queens, queers are all over The Root 100, SO MANY new queer movies to look forward to AND SO MUCH MORE!
Wildfang’s most recent lookbook stars five kickass “retirement age” folks lookin’ so fine in suits and tees!
Also Jenny Owen Youngs became a Reptile Scout and Ellen Page went to the carnival that (probably) only exists in Jenny Schecter’s mind.
“Oh! Kevin Spacey’s character is named Mike Huckabee. Oh, shit! And he’s running for President of the United States of America on a platform of Traditional Marriage! Polygamy and rape in the White House, then, I guess. This should be on HBO.”
Talking with three of the stars of trans-created webseries Her Story about love, representation, staffing a set with trans women and so much more.
The genre mix is definitely diverse but that’s expected, we did real good.
“Elizabeth kissed her back, passionately and crazily! It felt like being beat by ocean waves — but in a good way.”
This week on Faking It, everybody gets into costume play and makes bad choices.