Baby Products I Never Needed: A Minimalist, Freeform Approach to Preparing for a New Baby
How I prepare my home and myself for the experience of birth and new parenthood, with as few products as possible.
Fan Fiction Friday: 10 “Person of Interest” Stories Because Root and Shaw Are Everything
Including a Hogwarts AU in which Shaw comes from Drumstrang to compete in the Triwizard Tournament!
No Filter: In Which We Survey The Week In Celesbian Instagram
Insipid celebrity gossip, and inappropriate speculation now through Valencia.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: What Do You Wear When You Want To Feel Awesome?
What do you wear when you want to feel amazing? How did you learn that it made you feel amazing?
4 Vivid Lipsticks I’ve Known and Loved
If it’s bright, deeply pigmented and under $10, I’ll usually give it a spin. After searching high and low for quality formulas in current colors, I’ve gathered some of my personal favourite inexpensive lippies. Reap the benefits of my quest.
Anonymous Sex Toy Review: Iroha Mini Vibe
Affordable, versatile, portable, waterproof — and also the cutest vibe I’ve ever seen.
Orphan Black Episode 303 Recap: My Milkshake Brings All the Clones to the Yard
Alison and Donnie sell drugs like ice creams, Sarah and Art track down Mark, Cosima does a brain extraction, and Helena is flawless.
VIDEO: Queer Mama for Autostraddle Episode Three — Let’s Go Sperm Shopping!
“I kept having this ridiculous vision of, say, five years down the line being at a filmmaker meet up, looking across the room and recognizing my child in a stranger’s face, being like holy shit, I think that’s our donor. It’s a little absurd, I know, but San Francisco is a pretty small town!”
23 Excerpts from Rachel’s Diary, 2013-2015
“i cried for an hour and then had three glasses of wine and yelled at the contestants on Chopped”
Daily Fix: What the Heck is Happening in Texas and More News
Many upsetting Texas bills, Dorian Johnson’s arrest, a chapter of the Satanic Temple in MIssouri exercising its religious freedom, the first-ever LGBTQ Leaders of Color White House Summit, updates on presidential candidates across the board, and more!
8 Videos About Bees You Could Be Watching Right Now
To prepare you for life on our radical separatist commune, duh.
Business of Art Fix: Keeping The Indie Dream Alive When Talking Pay and Other Stories
Looking at #talkpay from a different angle, “the journalism industry is a mess,” some scary social media stuff, five Entrepreneurial lessons we can learn from Cookie Lyon, stories I wish someone would pitch us and just lots of desperately important news you cannot live without.
My Pregnancy Was Perfect, and I Lost My Baby Anyway
Sometimes, even the best laid plans are, well, decimated. Even a type-A mega control freak like me couldn’t control my own body when I was pregnant — and I certainly couldn’t control what happened to my son after his premature birth.
Miley Cyrus Is Not Heterosexual, So
Furthermore, Miley has launched a charity “devoted to helping homeless youth, LGBT youth, and other vulnerable populations” and played music in her backyard with Laura Jane Grace and Joan Jett!
“Fun Home” the Musical is Messy, Hilarious, Nostalgic, and Totally Worth It
The Broadway version of Alison Bechdel’s classic graphic memoir made me feel weird, sad and fist-pumpingly excited.
Daily Fix: Laverne Cox Covers Variety, Raven-Symoné Guests on Black-ish, Brittney Griner Will Sit Out Team USA Practice
Pretty Little Liars season 6 looks terrifying, Jessica Williams celebrates The Hate Class of 2015, Miley Cyrus tag-teams with Joan Jett to fight LGBT homelessness, and Shonda Rhimes is launching another diverse show.
3 Tarot Spreads for Checking in with Your Relationships
This week, I want to share a few tarot spreads with you, which you can use to look at what’s going on with your relationships. Firstly with your one-to-one relationships, secondly a spread for polyamorous folks, and lastly a little spread that’s just for loving your wonderful self.
Why You Should Care About Lesbian Safer Sex (And What To Do About It)
If sexual health isn’t relevant to your interests yet, it should be.
Read A F*cking Book Review: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is Living Her Truths in “Bodymap”
I told myself 2015 was the year of living my truths. I’m excited to have a guide in this book, and in Leah’s soulful mission to love and be loved — the rest of it be damned.
7 Rad Queer Women Characters of Black and White Cinema
There aren’t a ton of queer women in classic cinema, but the ones we do have are pretty amazing.