You Should Go: Kickass Cocktail Party At Babeland For Autostraddle
Babeland is hosting a workshop just for Autostraddlers, and there are about a million reasons not to miss it.
January Rising: Lip Tar With A Purpose
OOC Makeup has an exclusive pink lip tar that’ll make you look hot while also helping to support one woman’s gender affirming surgeries. Win/win.
Straddler On The Street: Veronika
Veronika is our third Miami Straddler, leading me to believe that there’s something magical in the Floridian sun that helps create particularly amazing women. We chatted about Regina Spektor, museum studies and her failed attempt at vegetarianism.
The Comment Awards Want to Take You Underwear Shopping
Underwear…underwear everywhere.
You Should Go: The Pushovers Are All-Lesbian Pop Rockers, All Ready to Perform in DC
The Pushovers are an all-lesbian pop-rock crew gearing up for a gender bending festival performance. Are you sold yet?
Straddler On The Street: Caro, The Lingerie Lesbian
In honor of Underwear Week 2013, Caro, The Lingerie Lesbian, tells us why she started her blog, which brands of lingerie are her favorites and offers some advice to girls who have to buy bras in sizes larger than a DD.
The Real L Word’s Saj Golde Launches Black LGBT Magazine
Brittani’s Team Pick: Saj Golde of The Real L Word launches a BlackOUT, a magazine geared towards black LGBT people and their allies.
ELIXHER Magazine, The Ultimate Resource for LGBTQ Black Women, Needs Your Help!
ELIXHER is “your go-to resource for all things empowering, thought-provoking, and pertinent to the Black female queer community and experience. You’ll find news, uplifting profiles, local events, political commentary, personal reflections, and more.”
The Comment Awards Want You to Ride Shotgun
Hot beverages, hot women and hot rodding across the country with a pup. Who’s in?
Autostraddle Calendar Girls 2014: Brianne is Miss March
You’re about to fall entirely in love with Brianne. “My Femininity is powerful. This is my body, and I’ll do with it as I please.”
You Should Go: Raise The Roof While Raising Funds For The Transgender Law Center in Boston
Good music, good cause, Good Vibrations. I had you at “good,” right?
The LGBTQ Side of SXSW: OUTLander Spring Festival
During SXSW, an equally awesome and certainly more queer festival will be happening in Austin. On March 9th at as part of OUTLander’s Spring Festival, Main Screen will show episodes of Words With Girls, Unicorn Plan-It, and Gay Street Therapy along with a live performance from Haviland Stillwell.
You Should Go: The Founding Meeting of the Queer Baltimore Young Adult Coalition with Dapper Jill
“I’m not creating this thing, I’m facilitating the birth. If anything I’m this thing’s midwife. It’s gonna be messy.”
You Should Go: Soapbox’s Feminist Summer Programs for Badass Chicks of All Ages
Registration is open for three Feminist Camp programs! Each provides participants with the opportunity to explore NYC, make connections, and play a part in a movement that will, by the end, completely humble them.
Straddler On The Street: Ketzel
Ketzel wrote to us and said she’d like to see more teenage queers in the media, so we went ahead and accepted her offer to interview her, a real live teenage queer. We chatted about how she’s choosing a college, feminism, her love of horseback riding and the biggest misconceptions grownups have about teens.
Autostraddle’s Guide to Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend 2013 in Palm Springs
You should go to Palm Springs April 3rd to the 7th for Dinah Shore Weekend (aka lesbian spring break) because our girls from Unicorn Plan-It and Words With Girls say so. Brittani is hilarious and she made this guide just for you.
The Comment Awards Will Eat You Up
Girl Scout cookies, cookie butter and a serious commitment to grilled cheese. We’re chewing our way through the comment awards this week!
Get Your 2013 Autostraddle Calendar For $8! 48-Hour Sale!
We’re clearing out the 2013 Calendars — time to get yours!
How White LGBTQ People Can Be More Inclusive of People of Color
“If you’re white and LGBTQ and you want to make sure that LGBTQ spaces are as safe and inclusive for everyone as possible, here are some steps you can take to support people of color and be more racially aware.”
Straddler On The Street: Sam
Sam talks about A-camp, traveling and couch surfing, her celebrity crush and more.