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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!

Yvonne October 24, 2014 237 Comments
Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are All Treat, No Trick

What do Heather Hogan, Mr. Rogers, and Juicy Fruit Gum have in common?

carrie October 24, 2014 4 Comments
Movie Lists

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.

Nina October 24, 2014 9 Comments
Literature

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!

Riese October 24, 2014 5 Comments
TV Lists

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.

Heather Hogan October 24, 2014 20 Comments
Sports

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.

Brittani October 24, 2014 8 Comments
Politics + Activism

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.'”

Adrian October 23, 2014 4 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

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.

Brittani October 23, 2014 6 Comments
Politics + Activism

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.

Mari Brighe October 23, 2014 34 Comments
First Person

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.”

Heather Hogan October 23, 2014 74 Comments
Geekery

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

Adrian October 23, 2014 27 Comments
Straddleverse

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!

Riese October 23, 2014 65 Comments
Geekery Queer Fashion

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.

A.E. Osworth October 23, 2014 25 Comments
Travel

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.

Maddie October 23, 2014 37 Comments
TV Show Recaps

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.

Riese October 22, 2014 25 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

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.”

The Speakeasy October 22, 2014 24 Comments
Politics + Activism

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.”

Adrian October 22, 2014 2 Comments
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue Four, October 2014

HOW DARE YOU BE SO ON TOP OF THINGS

Riese October 22, 2014 61 Comments
Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

Fool’s Journey: Find Your Tarot Birth Card!

Let’s all sum ourselves up as cards from the tarot and find out what that says about us.

Beth October 22, 2014 50 Comments
TV Show Recaps

Pretty Little Liars Halloween Special Recap

Because there was no way to fit another Halloween into the senior year the Liars have been living for the last five years, we earned an actor retrospective!

Heather Hogan October 22, 2014 21 Comments
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