Rebel Girls: Bessie Smith Was a Queer Pioneer, and We’re Finally Gonna Get to Talk About It
When HBO’s Bessie premieres May 16 to bring the Empress of Jazz back to life, nobody will be skirting the issue of Bessie Smith’s bisexuality.
Last Call: Stories from New Orleans’ Disappearing Dyke Bar Scene
A new podcast dives deep into New Orleans’ dyke bars of the 1970s and ’80s. Here are a few of the funny, sweet and powerful stories from Last Call.
Rebel Girls: Women Who Have Been On the Money Since Time Immemorial
The campaigns to get women on American and Canadian currency got me thinking: who are the women who have been on the money? What are their stories? Do they have great hair?
Rebel Girls: Consider This Your Women’s Herstory Month Syllabus
I want us to embark on some serious herstorical journeys through time, but I simply cannot condense herstory into one post, so I’m gonna condense everyone else’s pieces, books, movies, and projects about women’s history into one instead!
21 Indications That This 1892 Teenage Murderess Was Insane, and By “Insane” I Mean “Gay”
“She was regarded as mentally wrong by young men.”
Badass Blacksmiths: Women’s Work and Transgender Identity
People would look surprised and say, “But…you can’t be a girl. You’re a blacksmith!”
“This Shit Has Got to Change”: The Autostraddle Interview with Black Lesbian Feminist Legend Barbara Smith
This past Saturday, just a few hours before the Millions March in NYC, I sat down with Barbara Smith, a Black lesbian feminist legend.
Notes From A Queer Engineer: On Comets and Caroline Herschel
A Cinderella story, with less bibbidi bobbidi and a lot more astronomy.
Rebel Girls: 5 Bad Theories on Gender and Sex From Way Back When That Still Impact us Today
Not everything science has given us has made our lives better.
Rebel Girls: The Totally Badass Suffrage Exploits of Yore That Gave Us Today’s Voting Rights
A lot of women went through a lot of shit so you could vote, so shut up and do it.
Rebel Girls: The Women I Wish I Could Vote For
Although the nation’s highest offices have been sought by many badass women, we have yet to win. It’s enough to make me wish we could go back in time and vote for, well, these chicks.
Rebel Girls: Mapping Power, Privilege, and Oppression
In which we learn about matrices, intersectionality, and why oppression only works in one direction.
Rebel Girls: Defining Privilege, Oppression, and Everything In Between
In which we learn about the basics of privilege, oppression, and what they have to do with each other.
Five Rad LGBT Artifacts You Can Find at the Smithsonian
The Smithsonian’s LGBT collection isn’t all-encompassing, but it still has some awesome stuff!
Rebel Girls: The Illustrated (And Quite Condensed) History of Women’s Studies
Women’s studies. What the f*ck is that? And how the f*ck did it get that way? Let’s find out!
Rebel Girls: Your Handy-Dandy Map to the Feminist Movement
Just like you and I contain multitudes, so does the movement which advocates for women’s empowerment and equality.
10 Most Unstoppable Women Ever
Stories of ten incredible women who have overcome everything from racism to gravity to frostbite in order to push us all forward.
Rebel Girls: The Writing That Made A Movement (Or A Bunch of Feminism’s Primary Sources)
Women’s studies, as a whole, is a discipline grounded in words. These pieces are some of the words that ground the entire thing.
Lorraine Hansberry Liked, Hated and Was Bored To Death With Being A Lesbian
Lorraine Hansberry’s lists of stuff she Liked, Hated and was Bored to Death With puts everyone currently working in the list business to shame.
Rest in Power, Yuri Kochiyama
Let us celebrate the life and legacy of a civil rights heroine, Yuri Kochiyama.