The Comment Awards Are Getting On About Getting It On
Let’s get down to business.
Fan Fiction Friday: Get In the Mood to Make Crazy Science With 15 “Orphan Black” Fics
Enough Cosima and Delphine sweetness (and smut) to keep you occupied until this weekend’s season three premiere.
Things I Read That I Love #173: Blame Our Generation For Overanalyzing Everything
Topics include being childless by choice, “white trash food,” Christopher Columbus the mass murderer, Hillary Clinton, the Millennials’ Sexual Revolution, gun violence and more!
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: What Do You Take With You?
What do you pack when you have to pack lightly? (Not in that sense of packing.) (Or is it???)
What Does It Mean To Be A Queer Adult? The Autostraddle Roundtable
What does it mean to be a queer adult? We’ve got mini-essays from our writers over thirty and three glorious infographics that look at census data and our own Autostraddle Grown-Ups Survey Data to get a grip on what happens next.
GLAAD Studio Responsibility Index Reveals Queer Women Basically Don’t Exist In Movies
“Yep, that’s right. Out of 314 major Hollywood film releases, one single film — Melissa McCarthy’s Tammy — passed the Vito Russo test with queer female characters.”
Lez Liberty Lit #70: These Libraries, Those Libraries
Books by people of color are more likely to be banned, Cherríe Moraga on the re-release of This Bridge Called My Back, a new webseries that’s basically lesbian pulp fiction come to life and more!
The QTPOC Speakeasy Speaks Out On Walter Scott and Eric Harris
“The Speakeasy has been restless this past week, working through our feelings, and trying to understand what justice looks like to us. Some of us believe in the abolishment of prisons, others just want to see criminals treated equally regardless of skin color. We are trying to reconcile our short-term needs with our long-term goals.”
Makin’ Babies: How I Self-Inseminated and You Can, Too
Welcome to a new series about how we made our babies! This week you’ll learn how to inseminate yourself and the importance of the pillow-to-butt ratio!
34 Excerpts From Riese’s Diaries, 2008 – 2014
“I feel that I have no idea what will happen next. Does anyone else on this plane understand this or feel this way.”
Daily Fix: Republicans Didn’t Rise to the Occasion for Equal Pay Day and More News Stories
The state of conversion therapy, campus sexual assault protests at Columbia, Marylin Zuniga and get-well cards for Mumia, an anti-trans bathroom bill in Nevada, abortion laws in Oklahoma, and more!
VIDEO: Button and Bly’s Travel Show in Big Bear, California
Big Bear, where bears are big and beer flights are awesome.
The A+ Bee Issue Eighteen: You Otter Know
Here you will find the cutest damn otter puzzle you’ve ever seen, a peek into what the Cincy straddlers have been up to, a haiku from Carmen Rios herself AND SO MUCH MORE.
Five Reasons the Fight for $15 Matters for LGBT People
Raising the minimum wage is a critical piece in a complex puzzle of alleviating economic struggle for queer and trans people.
What We’re Gonna Talk About When We Talk About Hillary Clinton
“Throughout our coverage of this campaign, no single writer’s work will represent an official Autostraddle stance on her candidacy or policies.”
Daily Fix: “Orange is the New Black” Releases 45 Seconds Of Season Three and Other Breaking Pop Culture News Stories
Poussey and Suzanne have a disagreement, Liz Feldman gets funny with UHH and Lauren Morelli, Faustina Agolley comes out, Michelle Rodriguez finds bisexuality very organic, ABC Family is sexy and other super-important pop culture stories in your face!
6 Ways to Get Your Crush’s Pet to be Obsessed With You
Please fight every urge you have to chase them down and squeeze the dog/cat’s face with your own face or hands while very loudly exclaiming HOW MUCH YOU JUST FREAKIN’ LOVE CATS OR DOGS ZOMGSRSLY. Don’t be this guy.
50 Fascinating Things You Really Wanted Us To Know About How You Have Sex
“I say a lot of things about myself during sex that I would not say about myself at any other time, primarily phrases like “I’m your bitch.”
Top 8 Weirdo Things I Ate During Passover
“I couldn’t read the ingredient list but I’m pretty sure it was kosher. I ate it on matzah, duh.”
Clone Club Group Text: Tatiana Maslany Is Every Emoji on “Orphan Black”
Season three lands on Saturday, y’all! It’s time to get psyched!