The A+ Bee, Issue Four: Please Won’t You Bee My Neighbor?
This issue has everything: secret messages, advice from Dear Sour, tea that might be a UFO, a book club, and a series of horses that look like Autostraddle staff members!
Comedy Crush: Everything Brittani Nichols Touches Turns to Hilarious
“I wore a hooded shirt with a suit jacket which is a look I really enjoy but there aren’t any pictures of me in it because I’m not important, so I avoided trying to make people care about me by skipping most of the red carpet.”
How Racism, Not Shonda Rhimes, Created The Angry Black Woman
“For whatever reason, Stanley assumes that these contemporary characters are living in the same post-racial world that many people prefer to pretend we’re already living in. It’s within the confines of this utopia that these characters appear to be nothing more than sexually charged Angry Black Women, instead of oppressed minorities living in a white man’s world.”
The Speakeasy Book Club Is Reading “Sister Outsider” And You Should Too!
The Speakeasy is starting a book club to read QTPOC-relevant books, and you’re all invited to join.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Wants To Watch
A sexting game, the way people smell, a cuddling app and more!
Cara Delevigne is Rockin’ Menswear This Sunday Funday
Hillary Clinton’s there for you, Cape Town just got a gay mosque, and both the GOP and North Carolina will probably feel the sinful wrath of gay marriage at some point soon. Good thing I’ve got an owl and a kitten to get me through it.
All My Sims Are Queer, Here, Getting Used To Sims 4
“Before I was ready or able to kiss a girl in real life or to reinvent myself as the wild party girl or fierce leader or boho artist — all identities that eventually became a part of my real identity — I could play them out on my computer screen.”
The Comment Awards Are Cooking Something Up
Tea, tattoos and the tears of men.
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue Three, September 2014
Were mermaids the original lesbian separatists? What thrilling editorial conversations were had this month? Those questions and more are tackled in this peek behind the curtains.
Once More With Feeling: House Democrats Make Renewed Push ENDA Vote
Democrats, in a push led by Ohio Rep Jared Polis, are using a long-shot procedural maneuver to force a vote on ENDA this year over Speaker Boehner’s objections.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Let’s Make Some Fall Resolutions
With all the great not-yet-winter emotions stirred up by fall comes the distinct urge to rethink and restructure some parts of my life. Am I alone in this? TELL ME I’M NOT ALONE, Y’ALL.
tATu’s Yulia Volkova: Girls Kissing Are Hot, but Gay Son Would Be Gross
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It’s On Us: Obama’s New Campaign Says Everyone Is Responsible for Helping End Campus Sexual Assault
It’s On Us could potentially fill the gap between activists and their administrations, creating cultural demand for the work they’ve been pioneering for years.
Things I Read That I Love #145: It’s Gradual and Sad, or Wild and Thrashing
Topics include love, full-figured fashion, depression & sobriety, rape of men in the military, debtor’s prison and more!
What’s Your “Root?” Autostraddle Editors Remember What Brought Them to This Website for the First Time
For a myriad of reasons, we all somehow ended up clicking over to this very special place called Autostraddle Dot Com at some pivotal point in our queermo lives, and now we’re all still here making it happen! In this roundtable, our editors and writers share their “root” — the posts that brought them here for the first time.
Playlist: The Worst Sex Playlist Of All Time
Close your eyes, make a wish, and blow out the candlelight, if you can have successful sex to this playlist then you’re really in love.
Thai Teen Drama “Hormones” Features Lesbian Couple, Is Better Than “Skins”
Thailand’s new television series focus on homosexuality and other complex issues facing youth with nuance and aplomb…and will also suck you into a black hole of screen time.
TV In The Time of Patriarchy Traffics In Ageless Women, Age-Old Stereotypes
Do TV creators internalize the stereotypes portrayed on TV as “normal,” replicating it in their work environments and causing additional stereotyped portrayals? That’s a chicken-or-the-egg question of art imitating life imitating art.
Lez Liberty Lit #55: Reading Slowly, Reading Well
Sexy poetry, slow reading, an independent bookstore road trip, new old classic YA and more.
5 DIY Wellness Recipes for Your Next Sick Day
Goes well with Netflix marathons and pajama pants.