You Need Help: Battling Heteronormativity with Style
But if you aren’t naturally masculine leaning in your sartorial choices, how do you let everyone know about your lady loving? What if all you want to do is wear traditionally “femme” clothing?
Cross My Heart
The absolutely true autobiography of a liar.
Julio Salgado and Janet Mock Upgrade the Inspirational Quote with “Heroes”
Like those cheesy inspirational prints for your office buy way, way, way better.
Get Baked: Black Bean, Spinach, Mushroom, and Soy Chorizo Quesadilla
If I can make something this delicious to put in my mouth, I know you can, too, mostly because I had to watch a video on how to dice tomatoes in order to make this happen. Please don’t let something this good get away.
Fool’s Journey: I Feel Like Being in Love is Not Something I’m Meant For
I’m gonna take a punt before I’ve even shuffled my cards and tell you that no – you’re not unlovable. No way. I think we can all agree, I don’t need a deck of cards to tell you that. You are 100% lovable, just like ALL Autostraddle readers.
What the Criticism of Lingerie-Clad Women in Tech Got Wrong
Hold your horses, unicorns, and angry pack of wolverines — there’s more to this campaign than you may first assume.
Gird Your Loins For “Faking It” Season Two: Here’s What’s Gonna Go Down
We’ve got the trailer and the scoop on what we can expect from Faking It’s second season. For example, Amy’s hair is still gonna look really cute.
10 Actual Stock Image Results for “Menstruation”
Sometimes Shutterstock is a helpful provider of generalized stock imagery, but mostly it’s an endless fount of smiling white women, confusion and horror.
No Tampons, No Diva Cup, No Problem: Two Earth-Friendly Tampon Alternatives
Yes, Virginia, there are choices beyond Diva Cups, maxipads and tampons.
Drawn to Comics: Lumberjanes #5 May Be the Best One Yet!
“Dinosaurs! Yessssss!”
BPM: Everybody
What if we just talked about ALL THE SONGS AT ONCE?!
PHOTOESSAY: Stunning Portraits From Portland’s Vev Studios Showcase Every Woman’s Beauty
Co-founder and photographer Gia Goodrich aims to empower women to feel beautiful no matter their gender expression or personal identity.
Make the Last Days of Summer Tastier with Swiss Oats and Chile Salt
How to make chile salt for your fruit (to make it taste fruitier, of course) and eat oatmeal in August that won’t involve you sweating directly into it!
Drinking My Way Through Texas: A Beer Diary of Sorts
I can’t tell you about the head or what it has “notes” of. But I can tell you about some beers I really enjoyed, a few I didn’t, and the things that happened along the way.
Most Important Ugly: The Final Monsters
It’s time to introduce you to my last and final monsters. These were the people I had wanted from the very beginning, actually, they were pretty fully realized into their own identities — working with everyone else in the project involved pulling out their narratives a lot more to get what we wanted, but for these three… my muses! It was not so difficult.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Wants To Strap On First
Relationship rules, romantic friendships, g-spot play and more.
Sunday Funday, Jane Lynch, and All Of Santa Fe’s Gay Newlyweds Already Have St. Patrick’s Day Parade Plans
It’s time for us to rejoice and then rejoice some more over a big ol’ batch of queer cheer, because it’s Sunday Funday!
Lesbian Badass Megan Smith Named Obama’s Chief Technology Officer, Rejoice!
It’s just awesome to be able to point at a very visible, recognizable and powerful government position that is based on having a massive amount of technology knowledge and say “LOOK WE EXIST LOOK LOOK LOOK.”
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Tongue Depressor, Part II
The second vignette in a series of moments walking the intersection of queerness and depression.
The Comment Awards Are Fighting The Good Fight
Early signs we were queer, our relationships with sex toys and the Kim K game.