Autostraddle Autostraddle Autostraddle Autostraddle

  • About
    • About Autostraddle
    • Meet The Team
    • Advertise
    • Press
    • Events
    • Contact
  • Shop
  • Sign in
    • Register
    • Lost Password?
  • Support Us
    • Buy Our Merch
    • Become an A+ Member
    • Give Us Money
    • Shop Our Affiliates
  • A+
    • All A+ Posts
    • The Autostraddle Insider
    • S L I C K Erotica
    • Into the A+ Advice Box
    • Some Answers to Some Questions
    • Sex Diary
    • Interview With My Ex-Girlfriend
    • Excerpts From My Secret Diary
    • Annual Report
    • Personal Essays
  • Television
    • All Television Posts
    • LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now
    • TV Recaps
    • TV Reviews
    • TV Lists
    • TV News & Trailers
    • TV Features
    • The L Word
    • The L Word: Generation Q
    • To L and Back Podcast
    • Boobs On Your Tube
  • Film
    • All Film Posts
    • The 200 Best Lesbian, Bisexual & Queer Movies Of All Time
    • Movie Reviews
    • Best-Of Movie Lists
  • Arts+Pop Culture
    • All Arts + Pop Culture Posts
    • Books
    • Vapid Fluff
    • Fashion/Style
    • Music
    • Comedy
    • Theater
    • Visual Art
  • Sex+Dating
    • All Sex + Dating Posts
    • Lesbian Sex 101
    • How To Be Gay
    • NSFW Sunday
    • Shibari 101
    • Sex Toy Reviews
    • Tops & Bottoms
    • #PolyamoryProblems
  • Politics
    • All Politics + Activism Posts
    • Extra! Extra
    • COVID-19
    • International News
  • Community
    • The Autostraddle Yearbook
    • Herstory
    • Personal Essays
    • Queer IRL
    • The QTPOC Speakeasy
    • Advice
    • You Need Help
    • Events + Meet-Ups Hub
    • Queer Girl City Guides
  • Columns
    • Things I Read That I Loved
    • The Drop
    • Queer Horoscopes
    • Dating Download
    • No Filter
    • Year Of Our Lorde
    • Come Vibe With Me
    • Straight People Watch
    • The Dyke Kitchen
    • For Your Consideration
    • Queering Disability

Life

  • Herstory
  • Food and Drink
  • Home Stuff
  • Health
  • Travel
  • Business + Work
  • Geekery
  • Sports

Etc.

  • Special Issues
  • Quizzes
  • Lists/Top Tens
  • Greatest Hits
  • Ranked by Lesbianism
  • Epic Lists
  • Research / Investigations
  • Shopping Guides

Autostraddle Autostraddle Autostraddle Autostraddle

  • Support Us
    • Buy Our Merch
    • Become an A+ Member
    • Give Us Money
    • Shop Our Affiliates
  • A+
    • All A+ Posts
    • The Autostraddle Insider
    • S L I C K Erotica
    • Into the A+ Advice Box
    • Some Answers to Some Questions
    • Sex Diary
    • Interview With My Ex-Girlfriend
    • Excerpts From My Secret Diary
    • Annual Report
    • Personal Essays
  • Television
    • All Television Posts
    • LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now
    • TV Recaps
    • TV Reviews
    • TV Lists
    • TV News & Trailers
    • TV Features
    • The L Word
    • The L Word: Generation Q
    • To L and Back Podcast
    • Boobs On Your Tube
  • Film
    • All Film Posts
    • The 200 Best Lesbian, Bisexual & Queer Movies Of All Time
    • Movie Reviews
    • Best-Of Movie Lists
  • Arts+Pop Culture
    • All Arts + Pop Culture Posts
    • Books
    • Vapid Fluff
    • Fashion/Style
    • Music
    • Comedy
    • Theater
    • Visual Art
  • Sex+Dating
    • All Sex + Dating Posts
    • Lesbian Sex 101
    • How To Be Gay
    • NSFW Sunday
    • Shibari 101
    • Sex Toy Reviews
    • Tops & Bottoms
    • #PolyamoryProblems
  • Politics
    • All Politics + Activism Posts
    • Extra! Extra
    • COVID-19
    • International News
  • Community
    • The Autostraddle Yearbook
    • Herstory
    • Personal Essays
    • Queer IRL
    • The QTPOC Speakeasy
    • Advice
    • You Need Help
    • Events + Meet-Ups Hub
    • Queer Girl City Guides
  • Columns
    • Things I Read That I Loved
    • The Drop
    • Queer Horoscopes
    • Dating Download
    • No Filter
    • Year Of Our Lorde
    • Come Vibe With Me
    • Straight People Watch
    • The Dyke Kitchen
    • For Your Consideration
    • Queering Disability
  • More
    • Life
      • Herstory
      • Food and Drink
      • Home Stuff
      • Health
      • Travel
      • Business + Work
      • Geekery
      • Sports
    • Etc.
      • Special Issues
      • Quizzes
      • Lists/Top Tens
      • Greatest Hits
      • Ranked by Lesbianism
      • Epic Lists
      • Research / Investigations
      • Shopping Guides
    • About
      • About Autostraddle
      • Meet The Team
      • Advertise
      • Press
      • Events
      • Contact
    • Shop
    • Sign in
      • Register

        Lost Password?

artist spotlight

Artist Spotlight: Heidi Barton Stink

Trans rapper Heidi Barton Stink keeps it real. Like, really, really real.

By phoenix| June 2, 2012 | 10 Comments

Artist Spotlight & Playlist: B.Steady

Queer multimedia artist B.Steady creates work for People of Color, Queers, Women, and all of the intersectionalities. That means you.

By Emily| May 24, 2012 | 14 Comments

Artist Attack! Lizzie Spaceship Has Your Relief

These images could be NSFW, but also they could be Rorschach tests. Either way, they’re definitely beautiful.

By Laneia| February 29, 2012 | 7 Comments

Artist Attack!: Fiona Shaw Knows How You (Fail To) Really Communicate

“These elements invoke a narrative that, while never quite finished, imply a disaster of the persona – heartbreak, grief – displayed through the aesthetics of a more worldly apocalypse.”

By Laneia| February 29, 2012 | 5 Comments

Artist Attack! Wex Deconstructed These TV Shows For You, Literally

Beth Wexler makes some crazy videos. They’re crazy. They’re trippy and beautiful. You’ll love them.

By Laneia| February 29, 2012 | 1 Comment

Art Attack!: Ariel Schrag Relives High School So You Don’t Have To

Schrag captures the anxiety of queer adolescence, will make your heart break, make you cry.

By Whitney Pow| February 29, 2012 | 8 Comments

Artist Attack! Spotlight: Kathryn Weaver Turns Stories Into Paper Sea Creatures

She loves the fearsome, tentacled, and weird.

By Laneia| February 29, 2012 | 7 Comments

Art Attack! Spotlight: Sadie Lee Demands That You Look

Lesbian art or lesbian artist? Either way, Sadie Lee leaves a mark.

By mira| February 28, 2012 | 11 Comments

Artist Attack! Spotlight: Laura Doughtie Makes Art From Moments of Failure

“Embracing failure. Obsessive thoughts. Banal repetition of actions. For me they can be both very meditative and calming or crazed and overwhelming. Intensely intimate.”

By Rachel| February 28, 2012 | 7 Comments

Artist Attack! Spotlight: Michelle Muldrow Finds Fear and Awe in Box Stores

Michelle Muldrow’s paintings investigate “the experience of the repulsion and seduction of the American environment.” You can probably relate.

By Laneia| February 28, 2012 | 3 Comments

Artist Attack! Spotlight: Mars Hobrecker’s Photography Transcends More Than Just Identities

I know you’ll like Mars Hobrecker’s photography because I know you, and this is up your alley.

By Laneia| February 28, 2012 | 4 Comments

Artist Attack! Spotlight: Alice Hyde Draws What’s Hidden

“My desire for you, for life, is like a beast.”

By Laneia| February 27, 2012 | 8 Comments

Artist Spotlight: Azealia Banks and the Second Coming of the Female Emcee

Banks is an anti-glamour loudmouth chasing big-time success without mercy or apology, because, let’s face it, who has time to apologize when you’re becoming famous this fucking fast?

By phoenix| February 27, 2012 | 13 Comments

Art Attack!: Tamara de Lempicka Didn’t Care Who Knew

How could you not be intrigued by a woman who proudly proclaimed, “I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don’t apply to those who live on the fringe”?

By Amanda Catharine| February 27, 2012 | 12 Comments

Artist Attack!: Jenny Holzer Can’t Protect You Anymore

Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.

By Kolleen| February 27, 2012 | 8 Comments

Artist Attack!: All the Cunning Stunts Queer It Up At Street Level

“…but I also think that part of what our light box project did was to not assume that participation in mainstream culture means that you also have to take the structures of visibility that come with it as a given.”

By Effing Dykes| February 24, 2012 | 11 Comments

Artist Spotlight: Bex Freund Paints Life, Death, and the In-Between

“Walking through silent-movie city streets, my thoughts often turn to the many processes that I can’t personally perceive directly, the layers of invisibly embedded systems beneath the surface of the observable world.”

By Rachel| February 24, 2012 | 5 Comments

Artist Attack! Maya Deren Made Her Films With What Hollywood Spent on Lipstick

I think that she and her second husband Alexander Hammid, deserve 1944’s Lesbian Couple of the Year Award for their collaboration on “The Private Life of a Cat,”

By Celia| February 23, 2012 | 6 Comments

Artist Attack! Spotlight: Dese’Rae L. Stage Rocks, Wants You to Live

Dese’Rae Stage’s photography subjects include but aren’t limited to musicians that you like and inspiring people who have something to say.

By Laneia| February 22, 2012 | 4 Comments

Artist Attack! Kara Walker Blends History with Fantasy, Makes You Fantastically Uncomfortable

Kara Walker fills rooms with larger than life cutouts depicting scenes of power, racism, misogyny and sexuality. She might just be your new hero.

By Lizz| February 22, 2012 | 24 Comments

Art Attack! Feminist Fan Tees: Action Heroine Edition

Pop culture’s most badass feminists, wielding weapons on screen printed organic t-shirts. Everybody wins!

By Ana Iti| February 21, 2012 | 23 Comments
← Previous Page 1 2 3 4 Next Page →

Join A+ Starting at Just $4 / Month!

An ad for A+ membership that reads:

Affiliate of the Month

wet for her logo

Wet For Her is an online sex toy retailer that's a welcoming space for queer women and the folx they love — celebrating a diverse range of bodies, genders, and orientations.

shop Wet For Her →

Support Autostraddle While You Shop!

Illustration of shopping bag surrounded by sparkles. Text reads Visit the Affiliate Marketplace

kickback some of your amazon purchase to us!

From the Archives

  • Those Shady Gays: A Reflection on Mad Men, Downton Abbey and Revenge

    Those Shady Gays: A Reflection on Mad Men, Downton Abbey and Revenge

  • Donald Trump’s Rosie O’Donnell Jab Wasn’t Just Sexist, It Was Homophobic, Too

    Donald Trump’s Rosie O’Donnell Jab Wasn’t Just Sexist, It Was Homophobic, Too

  • 100 Michigan Law Students Walk Out Of Graduation: LGBTs Winning Hearts and Minds

    100 Michigan Law Students Walk Out Of Graduation: LGBTs Winning Hearts and Minds

Latest Comments

  • Gem On How Embracing Skincare Helped Me Get My Head Back Inside My Chronically Ill Body "Thank you for writing Heather, as always. It was so beautiful. My spongebob phrase that I always hear is !tRusT…"

  • Becca D On “Supergirl” Episode 604 Recap: Faith, Trust, and Phantom Dust "Ugh yes this recap. I honestly don’t know what I’m going to miss more – this show or your amazing…"

  • RMarlene On How Embracing Skincare Helped Me Get My Head Back Inside My Chronically Ill Body "This is just wonderful. It’s been very meaningful to me to follow your Long Covid journey. Thank you for taking…"

  • EmilyDanvers On How Embracing Skincare Helped Me Get My Head Back Inside My Chronically Ill Body "Thank you, as always, for sharing your writing about chronic illness, Heather. You put into words what I’ve been struggling…"

  • :) On Pop Culture Fix: “The Bering and Wells Show” Is Righting The Queer Wrongs of “Warehouse 13” "That prescription video game sounds right up your alley! There’s a lot here I want to read, but I got…"

  • :) On “Batwoman” Episode 211 Recap: 2 Bat 2 Furious "Loved the episode. Loved the recap. Loved Sophie’s look. Did not love Sophie rolling up on false face solo and…"

  • msanon On “Batwoman” Episode 211 Recap: 2 Bat 2 Furious "between the saw from 209 and the bleeding this week, i feel like the batsuit is not the super it’s…"

  • Nova Martinez On Pop Culture Fix: Tig Notaro Is Baffled You Think She’s “Sexy AF” But Her Wife Is Super Into It "OH MY GOD LIFT THE BAN ON RAFIKI ALREADY. They’re still debating about this? It makes me want to watch…"

Support Us

Latest Posts

  • How Embracing Skincare Helped Me Get My Head Back Inside My Chronically Ill Body

    How Embracing Skincare Helped Me Get My Head Back Inside My Chronically Ill Body

  • Pop Culture Fix: Tig Notaro Is Baffled You Think She’s “Sexy AF” But Her Wife Is Super Into It

    Pop Culture Fix: Tig Notaro Is Baffled You Think She’s “Sexy AF” But Her Wife Is Super Into It

  • FYP: How Close to Your BFF Are You?

    FYP: How Close to Your BFF Are You?

  • Also.Also.Also: Derek Chauvin Found Guilty of Murdering George Floyd, Our Work Is Still Not Done

    Also.Also.Also: Derek Chauvin Found Guilty of Murdering George Floyd, Our Work Is Still Not Done

  • Dating Download: Three Lesbians Try Dating App Struck and Leave It to the Stars

    Dating Download: Three Lesbians Try Dating App Struck and Leave It to the Stars

Upcoming Meet-Ups & Events

Submit to our Community Calendar →
View More Meet-Ups & Events →
← Previous Page 1 2 3 4 Next Page →
Autostraddle Autostraddle Autostraddle Autostraddle

Our Network

  • Community
  • Store
  • A-Camp

About Us

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

Follow Us

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

Copyright 2009 - 2021 The Excitant Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Comment Policy

SHOP GAY AUTOSTRADDLE MERCH GO TO THE AUTOSTRADDLE STORE