“a new column called The Thrifty Tomboy and i talk about costco for 1,200 words
per day”

“isn’t anyone going to speak out against rachel for saying all men should be castrated and set on fire ???????”

Listen as you build your movements, clarify your priorities, and fight for that future so many of us thought was already here.

“Even when we would get really drunk and make out to Ke$ha in front of hundreds of people in our own house, it was never a romantic thing.”

“Maybe this man is not really a witness at all, but just here to annoy us. ” Because he sure ain’t doing much for the other team…

It’s the second largest and second most populous city in the United Kingdom (the first being London) with over three and a half million people. So obviously it can’t be too bad here!

The lesbian USWNT player opens up about the Olympics, the future of women’s soccer, her bff Megan Rapinoe and coming out at Applebee’s.

This week on The Real L Word, I took a long nap, Kiyomi drank too much, Whitney popped the question and Amanda inhaled toxic paint fumes.

“Lesbian Connection was founded in a decidedly pre-internet era, when there were no lesbian characters on TV or in the movies, no lesbian stories on library bookshelves, no out queer pop stars on the radio. Finding another lesbian, another queer person, was always a victory.”

Longlegs doesn’t need to wave a pride flag and take a shot of estrogen to be queer-coded. But a queer-coded villain doesn’t have to be bad.

Autostraddle’s Editor-in-Chief and Head Bisexual-in-Charge talk bisexual discrimination on dating apps, biphobic stereotypes in queer relationships, “the patriarchy,” and having tent sex in the woods.

“Christina is, energetically, equal parts over-the-top gay man and elder straight woman.”

“When I say it’s comforting I mean it’s comforting in the omg this is so painful and beautiful and I love art and I love being trans and I want to die and aghhafsdghslakjnci sort of way.”

Carly: I feel like if I confusedly kissed Jennifer Beals, I would also have to move away.
Christina: I would have to join WITSEC. I would be like, “Listen, get me on a USA cable drama because I got to go. I’m losing it.”
Carly: “I got to go. Give me a wacky sidekick, we can go fight crime together, or whatever. Maybe we’re lawyers. We’re going to wear suits and my name is not Carly anymore.”
Christina: “I can’t be Christina anymore because my mouth has been on Jennifer Beals’ mouth.”

We got superhero movies! Teen comedies! Christmas movies! Oscar bait! Musicals!!!!

“I watched it all in one night, vacillating from helpless laughter (Olivia Coleman’s line readings!!!) to shocked surprise (“Where did you just go?”) and when it was over I sent profanity littered texts about it to one of my best friends, then watched the entire season again.”

“I can’t speak for all harm reduction efforts, and I think the impacts can be different depending on who you’re doing outreach with or who you are centering, but here in rural West Virginia, it’s a small community; the impact is so apparent.”

Coping with feeling like it’s the end times and residual religious fears, sexual needs changing within long-term relationships, getting started with dating apps, and more!

In which Paige’s perfect match is trying to get her to watch The L Word for the first time.

When we gather together, we don’t need to arrive with hope, because we have the power to create it. We will dictate the future.