VIDEO: Queer Mama for Autostraddle Episode Four — First Trimester Realness
Fatigue, nausea, boobs like bowling balls, mood swings, the sweetest moments you keep to yourself, and so much more. It’s the first trimester and wow it’s a roller coaster!
No White Tears: A Non-Guide on Dealing with Microaggressions from Your White Partner
This is not a how-to guide; there’s no right way to navigate these situations. Let’s share instances of microaggressions and some ways to deal in the hopes we’ll all be able to make it out alive, looking sexy and loving our hardest.
Orphan Black Episode 305 Recap: Sestra, Sestra
Cosima scores with Canada’s favorite lesbian dating app, and Helena and Sarah break each other’s hearts.
Stunning “Dandy Queens” Photo Spread Reimagines Herstory
Part sapeur, part Janelle Monae, a recent spread from Blackattitude titled “Dandy Queens” is down-right stunning.
Daily Fix: So Many Made-Up Studies on LGBT People and More News
Emma Sulkowicz carried her mattress at graduation, Michael Brown should have been 19 this week, a young trans girl who’s banned from the correct bathroom, support for same-sex marriage at an all-time high, and more!
9 Things That We Really, Really Want (When It Comes to Our Clothes)
Fashion world, you’ve done us wrong and here are our demands.
Fool’s Journey: Eight Tarot Cards That Want You to Care for Yourself
“Self-care is often the very last thing we think about when we’re reading our cards, as so often we’re focused on bigger goals. But if we want to build lives we love, or have healthier relationships, or create careers that really give us what we need, or whatever… we have to start right at the beginning with number one.”
B is Hilarious: What She’s Doing When She’s Not Texting You Back
They should make up a sixth love language that’s just Texting Back in a Polite Amount of Time.
This Business of Art Fix #5: Prepare Yourself For The Extraordinary Instant
Topics include what Facebook Instant means for publishers, how to work remotely like a CHAMP, re-thinking the slush pile, the best cities for jobs, internet ads and moar!
No Filter: These Women Are Gay Right?
This week, we travel to Cannes with Cara Delevingne, dance awkwardly in a circle with Ireland Baldwin and slice up our pants with Julia Nunes. Laverne Cox is too busy dancing to pay attention.
Pop Culture Fix: Everyone Is Bananas For “Carol” at Cannes and Other Important Stories
More and more actors are calling out Hollywood’s gender inequality, Kim Kardashian says Bruce Jenner is beautiful, feminists have had it with Game of Thrones, Mad Men flips the script on Joan and Peggy, Leisha Hailey is coming to ABC Family, and Queen Latifah doesn’t care if you didn’t like her lesbian sex scene in Bessie.
I Just Wanna Break The Rules: 3 Ways to be a Fashion Rebel
As fun as fashion can be, there are many supposed “rules” to dressing your fine self. It’s something that makes getting outfitted a very overwhelming process; which of these laws should be followed? I’m going to let you in on a secret… You don’t need to listen to a single one.
No One Can Stop Us: Black Lesbian Event Page Attacked by Schoolboys, Flooded with Support
This wasn’t just an attack on a Facebook invite. For many, this was an attack similar to those they experience in the real world navigating as Black Lesbians and in a space they felt safe in. So what exactly happened?
When Did You Do It For The First Time and How Many People Have You Done It With, Huh?
Oh you know, just the answers to everybody’s favorite two questions ever.
VIDEO: Nicki and Bey Giveth Much Life in “Feeling Myself” Music Video
The earth is aflame for the Nicki/Bey friendship canon. “Feeling Myself” delivers all the goods: cheeseburgers, bamboo earrings and Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé at their absolute best.
Graduation to Womanhood: Navigating Trans Identity at a Southern College
It’s as if I had just discovered a new color and now had this entirely new dimension to my life. I was able to paint a holistic portrait of what I wanted the rest of my life to look like.
“Mad Max: Fury Road” Is The Kickass Feminist Action Movie We’ve Been Waiting For
Go see Mad Max Fury Road. Go with your fists raised high and salute big, stupid, glorious, Hollywood blockbusters and go see what it looks like when we’re driving the smoking tractor-trailers into the unknown and fighting for our sisters to live free.
Heather’s Team Pick: My Garbage Cat Wakes Me Up at 3AM Every Day
Meow and cry at the same time while kneading your dumb little paws, until you deplete your owner’s sleep meter and wake her up!
Daily Fix: London Chanel, Black Trans Woman, Killed in Philly and Other News Stories
The way the media reported on the deadly Waco shootout, a trans woman was stabbed in Philly, there’s new restrictions on military style equipment for the local police and more news stories!
Drawn to Comics: Have You Seen the Supergirl First Look Yet!?!?
I wasn’t really expecting a lot from this show, but I’m not gonna lie, I was crying by the end of this preview… and halfway through it…