The Chicago Sun-Times recently republished a hateful and ignorant article claiming that Laverne Cox is a man due the “biological reality” of sex. Unfortunately, this essentialist, simplistic and just plain incorrect understanding of sex is often used against trans people.
Straight people really like the tell it to my balls joke, I think.
“So what would you make me for breakfast if we had just slept together for the first time, but you already knew you loved me and wanted to impress me and feed me into becoming your wife? Hypothetically.”
“Good Girls” reminds us that patriarchy is not only a tool for men, but a tool for women with other privileged identities to use against women with marginalized identities.
Poussey and Taystee are destroying everyone at Celebrity and Kate McKinnon can’t stop thinking about cats long enough to enjoy partying with a queer friendly webseries and out athletes.
Traveling alone during my semester abroad, my Moleskine was my only companion in a series of hostels of varying quality.
Welcome to a deluxe two-in-one review of the sixth and seventh episodes of season two of Orphan Black! These would have been up sooner, but things like A-Camp, A-Plague, and A-Pain of Returning to the Hetero World have sidelined me. So what did I miss? ALL THE THINGS, apparently.
This week on “Faking It,” everybody finds out about the threesome and Amy and Karma break up and everybody gets real sad about it.
Pivot TV will be premiering the hit lesbian comedy web series “The Better Half” starting Wednesday, June 4 (9pm ET/6pm PT).
Even if New Heart Community Church loses its membership in the Southern Baptist Convention, this pastor’s personal shift and his congregation’s openness demonstrate a ripple of change that has reached even very conservative corners of society.
June hath now been declared Autostraddle Pride Month, and y’all will be celebrating together at meet-ups across the globe until the very last parade has left a trail of frisbees and flyers in your neighborhood. But first, we need you to organize one!
THINK OF HOW GOOD IT’LL FEEL TO RETURN ALL THE LIBRARY BOOKS.
“I am a person with restricted growth (or little person or person with dwarfism), and I am queer… I did not come out as queer until I was in my 30s. People asked me why it took so long… But the deeper answer is that accepting my disabled identity was necessary before I could accept my queer one, and for me this has been a long, hard fought struggle.”
It’s TIME to recognize super cool artists and activists, fight the wrongful imprisonment of transgender youth, and watch some neat documentaries.
Unless you have the memory of an elephant and/or for some reason Don’t Like Journals (methinks you might be on the wrong website) then you’re gonna want to be recording your adventures as you learn and develop as a tarot reader.
You’ve got to have a layer strategy. I’ve styled a couple outfits that proactively anticipate both torrential downpours and super sunny skies.
42% of Americans believe that gay people are born rather than made.
This year’s Lambda Award winners were announced yesterday evening and now it’s time to read ALL OF THEM.
“My friends who hadn’t left town took me to new restaurants and bars they had found during their fledgling adulthood. Strangers lived in what had been my home. The girl I loved in May wasn’t speaking to me. I had a wonderful time, but I learned the city wasn’t mine anymore.”
Protect your eyes, jazz up an old pair of glasses AND gain some adorable street cred with this fun and easy project!