• About
    • About Autostraddle
    • Meet The Team
    • Jobs
    • Advertise
    • Press
    • Events
    • Contact
    • Comment Policy
  • Shop
  • Sign In
  • Support Us
    • Give to Autostraddle
    • Become an AF+ Member
    • AF+ Gift Membership
    • Buy Our Merch
  • Home
  • AF+
    • All AF+ Posts
    • AF+ Discount Marketplace
    • Into the AF+ Advice Box
    • AF+ Roundtables
    • Personal Essays
    • Anonymous Job Confessions
    • Interview with My Significant Other
    • Things I’ve Never Asked
    • The Autostraddle Insider
    • Some Answers to Some Questions
    • Sex Diaries
    • S L I C K Erotica
    • Interview With My Ex
    • Excerpts From My Secret Diary
    • Annual Report
  • Television
    • All Television Posts
    • LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now
    • TV Show Recaps
    • TV Reviews
    • TV Lists
    • TV News & Trailers
    • TV Features
    • The L Word: Generation Q
    • Autostraddle TV Awards
    • To L and Back Podcast
    • Boobs On Your Tube
  • Film
    • All Film Posts
    • The 100 Best Lesbian Movies Of All Time
    • The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema
    • Movie Lists
    • Movie Reviews
    • Movie Features
    • Movie News & Trailers
  • Entertainment
    • Literature
    • Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)
    • Style
    • Music
    • Theater
    • Visual Art
    • Comedy
    • Sports
  • Love + Sex
    • All Love + Sex Posts
    • Dating
    • Lesbian Sex
    • Sex Toys
    • Lesbian Dating Apps
    • Friendship
    • Breakups
    • Relationships
    • Lesbian Weddings
    • Shibari 101
    • Tops & Bottoms
  • News
    • Politics + Activism
    • Society + Culture
    • Pop Culture Fix
  • Community
    • Culture
    • Straddleverse
    • The Autostraddle Yearbook
    • LGBTQ+ Businesses
    • LGBT Pride
    • Autostraddle Reader Data
  • Identity
    • First Person
    • Coming Out
    • Gender
    • The QTPOC Speakeasy
    • Disability
    • Bisexuality
  • Home
    • Crafts & DIY Projects
    • Food and Drink
    • House & Garden
    • Pets & Animals
  • Games
    • Quizzes
    • Puzzles

Life

  • LGBT History
  • Health
  • Travel
  • Money + Work
  • Geekery
  • Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft
  • Holigays
  • Parenting & Family
  • Pregnancy

Etc.

  • Special Issues
  • Webcomics
  • Lists/Top Tens
  • Greatest Hits
  • Ranked by Lesbianism
  • Epic Lists
  • Shopping
  • Podcasts

  • Support Us
    • Give to Autostraddle
    • Become an AF+ Member
    • AF+ Gift Membership
    • Buy Our Merch
  • Sign In
  • Home
  • AF+
    • All AF+ Posts
    • AF+ Discount Marketplace
    • Into the AF+ Advice Box
    • AF+ Roundtables
    • Personal Essays
    • Anonymous Job Confessions
    • Interview with My Significant Other
    • Things I’ve Never Asked
    • The Autostraddle Insider
    • Some Answers to Some Questions
    • Sex Diaries
    • S L I C K Erotica
    • Interview With My Ex
    • Excerpts From My Secret Diary
    • Annual Report
  • Television
    • All Television Posts
    • LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now
    • TV Show Recaps
    • TV Reviews
    • TV Lists
    • TV News & Trailers
    • TV Features
    • The L Word: Generation Q
    • Autostraddle TV Awards
    • To L and Back Podcast
    • Boobs On Your Tube
  • Film
    • All Film Posts
    • The 100 Best Lesbian Movies Of All Time
    • The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema
    • Movie Lists
    • Movie Reviews
    • Movie Features
    • Movie News & Trailers
  • Entertainment
    • Literature
    • Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)
    • Style
    • Music
    • Theater
    • Visual Art
    • Comedy
    • Sports
  • Love + Sex
    • All Love + Sex Posts
    • Dating
    • Lesbian Sex
    • Sex Toys
    • Lesbian Dating Apps
    • Friendship
    • Breakups
    • Relationships
    • Lesbian Weddings
    • Shibari 101
    • Tops & Bottoms
  • News
    • Politics + Activism
    • Society + Culture
    • Pop Culture Fix
  • Community
    • Culture
    • Straddleverse
    • The Autostraddle Yearbook
    • LGBTQ+ Businesses
    • LGBT Pride
    • Autostraddle Reader Data
  • Identity
    • First Person
    • Coming Out
    • Gender
    • The QTPOC Speakeasy
    • Disability
    • Bisexuality
  • Home
    • Crafts & DIY Projects
    • Food and Drink
    • House & Garden
    • Pets & Animals
  • Games
    • Quizzes
    • Puzzles
  • Shop
  • About
    • About Autostraddle
    • Meet The Team
    • Jobs
    • Advertise
    • Press
    • Events
    • Contact
    • Comment Policy
Music

Get Excited About “So Much More,” Laura Jane Grace’s New Reality Show for AOL

Later this year, AOL is putting out over a dozen online reality shows made by and starring a variety of celebrities. One of the most notable is “So Much More,” a show starring Against Me!’s transgender frontwoman Laura Jane Grace.

Mey May 3, 2014 6 Comments
Geekery

The Queer Grrrl’s Guide To A DIY Computer, Part 2: Assembly

Last time we went through all the parts you will need to build your PC. Now it’s time to put them all together! We’ll be physically installing and connecting all the components, right up to the point where you turn the damn thing on.

Sally May 3, 2014 6 Comments
Webcomics

Saturday Morning Cartoons: Rooting for Red

A spot of history about queers in Cold War America.

Sarah Rosenblatt May 3, 2014 1 Comment
Recipes

Wilder Hungers: Coachella, California and Young’s

Pop-up restaurants, Coachella, desert adventures and more!

Gabriella May 2, 2014 13 Comments
Politics + Activism

What Will It Take For 200 Missing Nigerian Girls To Be Rescued?

In what sounds like a too-horrifying-to-be-true story, 234 teenage girls were kidnapped from their school in northern Nigeria by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram two weeks ago. Nigerians are furious that the government isn’t doing enough to bring back the girls.

Mey May 2, 2014 18 Comments
Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Drunk In Love

Grab a cocktail or local brew and let’s talk K-Stew, the Ellens, DeAnne Smith and other lezspectacular things that happened this week.

carrie May 2, 2014 7 Comments
Politics + Activism

Oklahoma Man’s Gruesome Execution Highlights Death Penalty System’s Failures

The state should be a rational actor, not a vengeful creature. Nothing about the current system — its high cost, its failure as a deterrent, its racist application — stands up to rational argument.

Adrian May 2, 2014 5 Comments
Society + Culture

Yup It’s True, Trans and Queer Students Get Title IX Protections Too

“Title IX’s sex discrimination prohibition extends to claims of discrimination based on gender identity or failure to conform to stereotypical notions of masculinity or femininity and OCR accepts such complaints for investigation.”

Maddie May 2, 2014
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #125: To Understand As A Gut Reality The Phenomenon Of Rulers Setting The Ruled Against Each Other.

Topics include the whiteness of MFA programs, multiple sclerosis, fireball whiskey, social science, Gmail, rape culture in Universities and Ellen Willis.

Riese May 2, 2014 8 Comments
Straddleverse

FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Tell Me The Most Awesome Thing About Your Week

It’s Friday which means it’s time for the Friday Open Thread! The article that is just like your journal but also someone else’s journal and also it talks back to you!

Lizz May 2, 2014 144 Comments
Sensua Suede Whip
Sex Toys

Anonymous Sex Toy Review: The Lelo Sensua Suede “Whip”

“Whip” may not really be the right word.

Guest May 2, 2014 2 Comments
Recipes

Stop Spending All The Money On Gross Lunches and Eat Like A Queen at Work

And turn your cubicle or office into a kitchen instead.

Stephanie Goldfarb May 2, 2014 27 Comments
Politics + Activism

Worst May Day Ever: GOP Filibusters Bill To Raise Minimum Wage

Senate Republicans decide that raising the minimum wage would hurt people, which sounds economically inaccurate.

Helen May 1, 2014 7 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit #45: Saved By The Bell Jar

Unknown female beat poets, lesbian historical fiction, the problem with essays, reading more, the answer to the question “how much gay sex should a novel have?” and more.

Ryan Yates May 1, 2014 3 Comments
Politics + Activism

Obama, Biden, Male Celebs Call for Ending Sexual Assault, Being “Part of the Solution”

The White House has released a 60-second public service announcement calling for an end to sexual assault featuring such household names and faces as Daniel Craig, Dulé Hill, Benicio del Toro, Seth Meyers, Steve Carell, and both the President and Vice President themselves. It’s a truly big deal.

Rachel May 1, 2014 5 Comments
School

We Have Lots of Noise, We Need Lots of Solutions: Preventing Sexual Assault at (Every) American University

The recent scandal surrounding the disturbing messages leaked from American University’s Epsilon Iota is a national story, and sheds light on a national problem. The response of AU students shows us something, too — how students can organize as a community to force their administrations to take action against campus sexual assault.

Carmen May 1, 2014 14 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

Team Pick: Ellen Page On Ellen DeGeneres Is as Heartwarming as It Gets

It’s the Ellen-on-Ellen video we’ve all been wishing on a bright, gay star for.

Intern Grace May 1, 2014 43 Comments
Food and Drink

Liquor In The House: Everything You Need For A Bar At Home

In which we stock a bar that is meant just for you and yours.

A.E. Osworth May 1, 2014 28 Comments
Crafts & DIY Projects

Dear Queer Diary: Scrapbooking Is Not Just For Straight People

Scrapbooking is for you and me!

Maggie May 1, 2014 12 Comments
Comedy Food and Drink

I’m Sorry But You Still Can’t Have These Marshmallows

It’s the sad, cold truth and it’s not fair. I’m so sorry.

Laneia April 30, 2014 59 Comments
← Previous Page 1 … 984 985 986 987 988 989 990 … 1,432 Next Page →

From the Archives

  • Transparent Episode 104 Recap: Cabinet of Family Secrets
  • We Keep Each Other Safe: Making a Covid Safety Plan for the Real World
  • 15 Fears I Faced in 2013, With a Little Help From Autostraddle

Latest Comments

  • Ugh Lowkey, I Chose To Be a Lesbian "Critiquing a publicly available essay is “below the belt” but publishing this nasty lesbophobia isn’t? OK lol"

  • LezzieLizzie ‘I’m a Thirty-Something Lesbian Worried I’ll Be Single Forever’ "What a nasty thing to say. No where did OP imply being owed love. You’d think there’d be a little…"

  • Julia from MI ‘I’m a Thirty-Something Lesbian Worried I’ll Be Single Forever’ "👏👏👏👏👏"

  • Julia from MI ‘I’m a Thirty-Something Lesbian Worried I’ll Be Single Forever’ "cute is subjective but also *this*"

Latest Posts

  • AF+ Crossword’s Got a Real Jam Goin’ Down
  • I’m Moving In With My Ex-Situationship (Wait, There’s More)
  • Benedict Nguyễn Finds Performance On the Page
  • What Queer Americans Can Learn From Hungary
  • ‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ Season 2, Reunion Recap: Who Is Still Together?

Our Network

  • Store
  • For Them

About Us

  • What is AS?
  • Meet The Team
  • Press
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Write for Us
  • Cookie Policy
  • Privacy Policy

Follow Us

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
  • Instagram
  • RSS

Copyright 2009 - 2025 The Excitant Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Comment Policy

Read ad-free: join AF MEDIA