Wild Child West: (Not) Going Home
I went to New Jersey and back, and I had a million billion emotions.
EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: New Music Video For Lila Rose’s “This Could Be Ha”
Queer Bay Area musician Lila Rose wants to talk to you about the circle of life, and how it moves us all.
Also.Also.Also: Kristen Stewart Feels Sad About Kim Davis’s Hateful Heart and Other Stories for Your Brain
Recess as a lifestyle goal, Ava DuVernay as an everything goal, trans homecoming queen, claws, “fuck,” Pippi Longstocking’s pancakes, and so much more!
Cake on Cake on Cake: 34 Recipes and They’re All Cake
Here are 34 cake recipes to shower upon your friends, family and fellow queers. Cake on, people. Cake on.
The Comment Awards Are Going Back to School
Have you done your homework?
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Feels Radiant And Wild
The truth about sex frequency, packing, having sex despite a significant height difference and many more lesbosexy things!
Sunday Funday Is Watching Ellen Crash the GOP Debate and Cows Take Down Kim Davis
All of the gender neutral bathrooms, tiny dragons, the ultimate gay marriage mic drop, Peoria’s first pride in a long time, and more!
Queer Girl City Guide: Cincinnati, Ohio
The city isn’t very outwardly hostile, and once you find a pocket of queer friends to start connecting you to others (one thing this guide will hopefully help you do!), we think the ‘Nati can be downright grand.
Wild Child West Playlist: A Soundtrack For Getting Free
These are the songs that encompass all the feelings in my tiny heart about getting free, running away, doing the stupid and impossible things that don’t make sense, and figuring it out from there.
Here’s What Lesbians Who Tech In Berlin Was Like (It Was Awesome)
As a Software Engineer who relocated from the bay area to Zürich, Switzerland, I was super excited to see Lesbians Who Tech coming to Europe and immediately grabbed a ticket.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Cool
“I still feel like an awkward, uncool 16 year old.”
Things I Read That I Love #184: It Seemed Everyone, Even The Moon, Was Laughing and Drunk.
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!
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Tell Me Your Meet-Up Stories Or Other Stories From Your Week!
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!
12 Women They Didn’t Tell You Were Queer In History Class
Really unclear why we didn’t spend at least one semester reading Emily Dickinson’s love letters to her girlfriend.
100+ Queer and Trans Women to Follow on Instagram
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?
Wild Child West: I Am Gonna Do This
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.
Going Home To My Ghosts: A Photoessay
The entire story of our entire trip from California to Michigan and also all the bigger stories and the smaller ones, too.
Follow Your Arrow: Spiritual Coach Tieara Myers on Answering the Call
“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.”
Daily Fix: Kim Davis’s BFF Mike Huckabee Says Religious Freedom “Most Important Issue of Election” and More News
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.
Hidden Gems of Queer Lit: Colleen McKee’s “Nine Kinds of Wrong”
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?!”