Helping You Help Yourself #9
Which wild plants to eat, how to supercharge your iPhone in just a few minutes, ridding your apartment of fruit flies, remember everything, and more!
Panic and Parenthood: Having A Baby, Being Torn Apart, and Putting Myself Back Together
“In one of my college psych courses we had to try to use conditioning to get rid of bad habits. My classmates tried to stop biting their nails. I tried to stop panicking during sex.”
Spread This Far and Wide: It’s Almost Time for the U.S. Trans Survey
If you’re trans and would like to help inform the next decade of trans advocacy, sign up and pledge to fill out this survey!
You Should Go or Help Other Humans Go to #QI2: the Queering Immigration Conference
“A lot of folks have their own opinions and viewpoints of what immigration looks like. I think if they came to this event they’d be able to see what trans and queer migration really looks like.”
40 Recipes For Getting Fruit Into Your Face
If you, too, dream of a world where fruit is less of a decorative item in a basket and more of the main event, get ready to put some of these recipes into your mouth immediately.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Sneaking Into The Woods
Your first anal sex, your first kinky sex, why embarrassment has no place in the bedroom and more.
Sunday Funday Will Take You All Around the World to Fight for Gay Rights, Fall in Sweet Queer Love
Obama’s gonna go hard for gay rights in Kenya, two queer women took a honeymoon around the world and made a video about it for you, Italy’s Supreme Court just made a decision that’s huge for trans rights, Riley Curry is doing the nae nae in here. Just saying.
Summer Lovin’: Wonderful Tech Things I’ve Tried This Summer
While there are many important topics that are hard hitting and deserve some serious talk, we also deserve happy, fun things too. So from an assortment of categories that have randomly occurred to me, here are my Summer Tech Favorites. What are yours?
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Little Things
On the little things that have changed.
Well Demi Lovato’s “Cool For The Summer” Music Video is Just Full of Girl-on-Girl Feelings
A homosexy lesbionic experience that takes us right back to t.A.T.u., and this time with no weird schoolgirl outfits.
The Comment Awards Are Happy Little Clouds
Sun powered sex toys, racoon confusion and Al Borland as a lesbian icon.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: It’s Almost My Birthday And I’ll Freak Out If I Want To
I’m almost 25 and everything is so awful but wonderful at the same time! GET IN HERE AND COMFORT ME DEEPLY. Also, I love you, nice hair.
Things I Read That I Love #180: It’s Never Not My Fault That I Knocked You Off The Chair
Topics include porn stars, the murder of an unarmed homeless black man, The Runaways, Ta-Nehisi Coates, brand-led fake holidays and DigiTour.
Lez Liberty Lit #77: Let’s Talk About Harper Lee
Recent books featuring queer people of color, travelling and reading, reading and your brain, your favorite curse word and more. Plus coverage of the Harper Lee coverage.
Get Fired Up: Autostraddle Babe-B-Q Weekend is August 15th & 16th!
We’re taking back grilling from the straight white dudes of this world and we’re doing it the only way we know how: together.
VIDEO: Queer Mama for Autostraddle Episode Eight — The Baby Shower
“I started looking at lists of what a baby “needs,” and, despite my supposed desire to raise my children with nothing more than a bearskin rug and my bare breasts, I started thinking maybe there were just a few things that might come in handy once the baby arrives…”
Daily Fix: Sandra Bland Asked Friend “How Did Switching Lanes Turn Into All of This?” and More News Stories
Updates on what we currently know about Sandra Bland’s arrest and death, the US’s most extreme abortion ban struck down, Republicans’ new effort to protect “religious freedom,” and more!
Pretty Little Liars Episode 607 Recap: Happy Birthday, Motherf-cker!
“Sorry I was tripping balls at your birthday party and almost got everyone killed with a t-shirt cannon.”
50 Happy Little Things Bob Ross Taught Me About The Joy Of Being Alive
“Didn’t you know you had that much power? You can move mountains. You can do anything.”
You Should Go: Manchester’s Political Pride Wants to Take Pride Back to its Roots
“Manchester Pride weekend is loud, expensive, booze-fueled and mainstream. Dancing and drinking in the streets (with ever-increasing numbers of straight folks) might be fun for many and a radical act for some, but not everyone feels welcome or comfortable at this kind of event.”