This Is How We Do It: Drying and Preserving Herbs
How to preserve that fresh goodness in your garden or on your windowsill to keep enjoying it all year long.
Fan Fiction Friday: 15 Multi-Fandom Love Stories Featuring Queer Women of Color
Orange Is the New Black, The Fosters, Sense8, Pretty Little Liars, Glee, and more!
Things I Read That I Love #183: Being Comfortable Being Uncomfortable Is A Very Effective Way To Be A Human
Topics include needing diverse books, prison food, Tinder As Video Game, the scam of the Art Academy of San Francisco, a triple murder in Florida, sorority life and so much more.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Dream On, Dream Weaver
Grab a pillow and cuddle up with me and tell me about your wildest, weirdest, silliest, most terrifying dreams! I’ll tell you what it all means according to my dream dictionary.
Cool-Down Cocktails: 3 Summer Drinks To Say Farewell To Summer With
I went to visit my parents in Tennessee recently and as soon as I walked out of the airport and was blasted with the heat of one thousand angry hair dryers, I remembered why I was a vampire as a teenager. So I did what any respectable adult would do — I went home and made myself a fancy ass cocktail.
Love & Canada: How Is This Wedding In A Week?!?
“Fuck flowers. Fuck everything. We’re ordering about a hundred LED twinkling lights and I’m gonna stick gold washi tape on ’em and sprinkle them everywhere and call it a night.”
Hidden Gems of Queer Lit: Rae Theodore’s “Leaving Normal: Adventures in Gender”
A smart and eloquent memoir about becoming butch, Leaving Normal: Adventures in Gender will resonate if you have a proud copy of Stone Butch Blues on your shelf, or listen to “Ring of Keys” from the Fun Home musical on repeat.
Daily Fix: New South Wales Education Minister Nixes High School Showing of “Gayby Baby” and More News
Kids in New South Wales won’t see Gayby Baby at school for Wear It Purple Day, Donald Trump kicks Jorge Ramos out of his press conference, women vote in Saudi Arabia, Walmart no longer selling assault weapons, and more.
Orange Is the New Black Episode 311 Recap: I Can Do Breaking Bad All By Myself
Piper and Alex break up, Pennsatucky breaks down, and Ms. Rosa makes a cameo!
Follow Your Arrow: Web Developer Cee on This Freelance Life
Autostraddle’s webmaster Cee Webster has been a freelance web developer for 15 years. Here, she shares her thoughts on freelance working, ‘winging it’, the challenges of juggling many projects, and the perks of working when you choose.
All of the Ultimate Back-To-School Advice for College-Bound Queers
There is literally no incorrect way to do college and Autostraddle staff are the proof.
Fool’s Journey: Barbara Moore Talks LGBTQ Tarot and What It’s Like to do Tarot Full-Time
“Barbara tells us about how she got started with tarot (pre-internet, y’all), how tarot informed her thinking about psychology and gender, and her upcoming course and retreat.”
A Trans Woman of Color Responds to the Trauma of “Tangerine”
“Why is it that trans women of color have to experience so much violence to remember that they have each other’s back?”
5 Data Visualization Projects You’re Gonna Dig
“To fully plumb the depths of my heart requires more than a single bar graph.”
In Lumberjanes Issue #17, Jo Comes Out As Trans and It’s So Awesome
“Jo’s trans identity was just another integral part of her character, and it developed very naturally — she was a leader, she was VERY passionate about being a Lumberjane, she was also trans.”
Pop Culture Fix: May-December Lesbian Couples Coming To A Theater Near You and Other Stories
Three upcoming films show May/December lesbian relationships, Lady Gaga and Angela Bassett play ex-lovers in American Horror Story: Hotel, some Duke students are freaking out about reading “Fun Home” and more important stories!
No Filter Is Listening to TLC In A Pile Of Tacos With Lauren Morelli and Amber Rose
If you spent the last six days wondering what’s happening with Sara Quin’s cat, have I got a treat for YOU! Also Ellen Page, baby DeAnne Smith and Samira Wiley in a hoodie.
You Need Help: How to Best Be There for Your Newly Out Asexual Friend
In which I talk to my asexual brother about what they wanted and what they did when they first came out as ace.
Working On It, Week 9: And Then I Broke My Toe
How do you workout with an injury?
Drawn to Comics: Fresh Romance #4 and Oath Anthology, Two Rad Online Comics Anthologies To Check Out
One of my favorite things about the internet is the rise of queer-friendly comics anthologies like these.