Boob(s on Your) Tube: Sexytime Hijinks on The Good Wife and Doc’s Ex-Girlfriend on Jane the Virgin
More lesbian sex than lesbian death on TV this week! It’s a 2014 record!
Transparent 105 Recap: The Summer Girl Drinks A Bloody Mary
“My notes from this scene read ‘sarah and josh what is WRONG WITH YOU god if i had a dollar for every time i thought that.'”
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: What’s The Story Behind Your Tattoo?
I really want the outline of Texas on my arm somewhere. Yes, I want a Texas tattoo, I want to be one of those people. Get in here and tell me all about your tattoos!
The Comment Awards Are All Treat, No Trick
What do Heather Hogan, Mr. Rogers, and Juicy Fruit Gum have in common?
Rhymes With Witches: Scream Queens
In honor of this holiest of scary holidays, I have compiled a few of my all-time favorite scary chick flicks: ranging from horror classics to ridiculous fun.
Things I Read That I Love #150: Whatever She Is Fleeing From Will Always Eventually Overtake Her
Topics include Nicki Minaj, the price of black ambition, murder, aging, Nazi hipsters, Los Angeles, TV Talk Show audiences and more!
20 Simple Survival Tips For The Pretty Little Liars
Does Rosewood, Pennsylvania even have overhead lighting? Does anybody in this town sell pepper spray? Riese and Heather have feelings about this.
Brittani’s Team Pick: Watch the Mo’ne Davis Documentary, “Throw Like a Girl”
This documentary about 13-year-old Mo’ne Davis and her 70mph fastball will make you cry and you should definitely watch it.
Lambda Legal Takes Up Fight For Lesbian Widow’s Same-Sex Social Security Benefits
Susan Summer, the director of constitutional litigation at Lambda Legal, put it simply: “SSA should not be telling widowed lesbians and gay men already grieving the loss of a spouse—‘you live in the wrong state so you don’t get Social Security spousal benefits.'”
Brittani’s Video Party: Marcel the Shell is Seriously Distracted by Faking It
Rita Volk is having some feelings about bisexuality while Kimiko Glenn from OITNB parties with Marcel the Shell and Mary Lambert.
The State of Trans Women and the Seven Sisters: Mount Holyoke Opens Its Doors, Smith and The Rest Drag Heels
Most of the elite Seven Sisters colleges still use convoluted language to exclude trans women from their campuses. Mt Holyoke has bucked the trend, but the rest are still only studying the issue.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: Or How I Divorced Jesus and Learned to Love Sex
“I didn’t know much about gardens, in general, but what I was working with seemed less like the married person’s vegetable patch the church described and more like a Narnian wonderland full of infinite magical possibility.”
Here Are 14 of the Most Incredible Insults Chris Kluwe Used To Describe Gamergaters
5. Slopebrowed weaseldicks with zero reading comprehension and even less critical thinking skills
We Need Help: Who Wants To Be My Intern
Are you a hilarious and ambitious queer with mad photoshop skills? Do you think you could one day figure out how to read my mind? Then maybe you wanna be my personal intern!
Nerd Couture: Dress Like Mr. Rogers, Be Like Mr. Rogers
No one but no one can ever truly be Mr. Rogers except Mr. Rogers. That doesn’t mean we can’t all try to dress like Mr. Rogers. That doesn’t mean we can’t all strive to be like Mr. Rogers.
5 Weirdo Things I Saw While Driving Across America
When you drive across the country, you plan to see some things ahead of time. Other things you just stumble across.
Faking It Episode 205 Recap: Completely Dunzo
This week on “Faking It,” Amy sends Karma on a birthday scavenger hunt that somehow doesn’t lead her to The Planet.
The Speakeasy Book Club #1: Let’s Talk About “Sister Outsider”
“Without community there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression.”
GLSEN Report Shows It’s Finally Getting Better in Schools For LGBT Youth
“High school and middle school are hard enough as it is. To think about the additional barriers facing these students is pretty heartbreaking, and we all need to stand up and do what we can to move them out of the way.”
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue Four, October 2014
HOW DARE YOU BE SO ON TOP OF THINGS