Autostraddle + Sorte: A Merch Match Made In Heaven

We’re collaborating with Venezuelan design and clothing company Sorte Tienda to bring handmade, screenprinted, and very queer t-shirts into your life.

Books

Read A F*cking Book: M-E Girard’s Novel “Girl Mans Up” Powerfully Explores Minefields of Gender

“Girard’s writing is special in the way it speaks the language of our lived experience of moving through and within gender — inching, painfully slow, changeable, delightful, sexy, and made manifest in a thousand tiny ways, often between people and between words, unspoken.”

First Person

How Endometriosis Helped Me Become a Tenderhearted Butch

“Instead of getting medical care, I had a work colleague help me to my hotel room and pour me a tumbler of whiskey. I downed the whiskey with a handful of aspirin and prayed for the pain to stop.”

Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Queer, Andro and Butch Women of the 1930s and Other Stories for Your Experience

Happy Monday, you majestic bursts!

Fashion/Style

Post-SXSW Communiqué on “Queer Style: Visual Activism and Fashion’s Frontier”

“I talked about how so much of my work with FFAF or here at Autostraddle is really just a sort of queer femme lighthouse keeping. I’m here, you’re not alone, this is a perfectly alright way to be, let me help you.“

Society + Culture

Top 10 Stud and Butch Crushes of 2015

In 2015 we’ve met or got reacquainted with some extremely hot masculine-of-center women or otherwise identified queers. Here’s 10 sexy studs worth swooning over.

Fashion/Style

Your Winter Trend Report and Shopping Guide: Dapper Boots

Winter’s best footwear trends, part one of two: this installment is focusing on the dapper end of boots for our handsome MOC and tomboy-oriented readers out there, with styling tips and more!

Politics + Activism

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

In Donald Trump’s world, women without “normative” gender presentations are fat slobs and “traditionally attractive” women are bimbos and idiots.

Film

“The Same Difference” Breaks Down All The “Rules” of Being Butch

The Same Difference takes the lid off of the many boxes that we as a community put ourselves into in respect to gender.

Fashion/Style

Butchbaby & Co. Brings Maternity Wear Out of the Women’s Section

Their philosophy is one of the best I’ve ever heard: “Don’t change just because your body does.”

First Person Gender

How Leslie Feinberg Changed Our Lives: The Autostraddle Roundtable

“I could feel the power that came from being butch, the paradox of growing up a girl and then becoming the suited partner of a beautiful woman, the torture of being such a social outcast, and the deep craving hunger for being accepted.”

Politics + Activism

Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Lesbian, Activist, Author, and Revolutionary Dies at 65

Leslie Feinberg died at home in Syracuse, NY, with hir partner and spouse of 22 years, Minnie Bruce Pratt, at hir side. Hir last words were: “Remember me as a revolutionary communist.”

Fashion/Style

dapperQ’s 100 Most Stylish Features Your Favorite Heartthrobs: Hannah Hart, Ari Fitz and More!

dapperQ just came out with their second list of 100 most stylish individuals, and boy, does it deliver on the dapper!

First Person

Fat-Booty Butch Buys A Suit On A Budget

There are moments when if we can, we want to wear the articles of clothing that bring us close to joy. My suit isn’t that thing, not yet, but it did bring me closer to feeling sane and on top of this thing called adulthood.

First Person

Top Five Things I Heard When I Started Presenting As Butch

4. You were so much prettier with long hair.

Fashion/Style

Trends This Butch Is Loving: Jogger Pants

Make a note on the back of your hand or the back of your girlfriend’s hand or write this on your cat for all I care: Jogger pants. Jogger pants are the future.

First Person

Big Queer Pimples, or How I Learned to Love (or Tolerate) My Acne

“When the doctor said that such and such a treatment was linked to health problems later in life, I didn’t even blink. I’ll hit 50 and keel over? Fine, I don’t care, get rid of these fucking pimples.”