The Autostraddle Guide To Queer Mental Health
An epically organized guide to some of our best work on topics including depression, anxiety, grief, eating disorders, substance abuse and other legitimately important topics.
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14 Music Videos That Confirmed My Sexuality
“Soft butches everywhere? I don’t know what your heaven looks like, but this is mine.”
215 Of The Best Longreads Of 2015 — All Written By Women
This should keep your brain busy for quite some time.
The Grossest Tales Ever Told By Women On The Internet
You may have heard that somebody’s gynecologist found a cat hairball in her vagina. Why stop there? There are so many other wonderful tales to tell each other!
Women In Prison: A Longform Reading List
“Orange is the New Black” premieres today, here is your really thorough reading list — from Assata Shakur to nuns against nukes to incredible journalism on the various horrors of the U.S. criminal “justice” system.
28 Gay Girl Covers Of Straight Songs Because Everything’s Better When It’s Queered
Some songs are just a lot better when queer people are singing them.
Five Ciara Videos That Made Me Queer
I’m pretty sure I became gayer in the process of putting together this post.
7 Videos That Have Something To Do With Destiny’s Child
Because without Destiny’s Child, there’d be no Beyoncé and how else would I have learned to crip walk? Also, something something Half Time show Destiny’s Child.
When After School Specials Made Gay People Seem Not-So-Special
Curated video from 80’s and 90’s afterschool specials in which being gay was a lot like being a tornado or a flesh-eating virus.
Top 10 Santana & Brittany Glee Musical Numbers
What if Glee had no dialogue, just music and lesbians? Then it’d be just like this post.
8 Kickass Crowd Songs From Movies & TV: From “Almost Famous” to “Skins”
You know what you need today? You need a stirring musical number from a popular film! There are eight videos inside this post. EIGHT!
Here/Queer: Things We Wrote That You Loved
Let’s take a trip back in time to Bali, Michigan, Nigeria, New Orleans, New York and many other fine fine locales.
A Very Queer Edition of “Things I Read That I Love”
Topics include “The L Word: Not Your Mother’s Lesbians,” “Straight Girl’s Seduction” and “the ambisexual, heteroflexible teen.”
Things I Read That I Love #12
Topics include Hollister, the U.S. prison system, an amusement park about Charles Dickens, Mitt Romney and AshleyMadison.com!
Things I Read That I Love #8
Topics include airport security, Stephen Colbert, Forever 21, Lucy Grealy and a surgeon who left his patient on the operating table to go cash his paycheck.
Things I Read That I Love #5: Law & Order Edition Part Two
Humans doing really terrible things to other humans!
Ellen DeGeneres Lesbian Interview Extravaganza: Celebrating The Women Who Showed Up
Lindsay Lohan didn’t show up for her Ellen appearance. To cheer you up, we bring you SEVENTEEN other lesbosexy Ellen interviews. (THIS IS EPIC)
Top Ten Viral Videos About Gay Marriage
We got your Zach Wahls, we got your Husbands and Husbands, we got your Gaythering Storm!
Things I Read That I Love #2: Law & Order Edition
True stories about terrible things.
50 Pictures of Rachel Maddow
“It’s time, isn’t it?” “It’s time.” “It’s time for 50 pictures of Rachel Maddow.”
Lampshades, Harmonicas and Penguins: Four Covers of Feist’s “1, 2, 3, 4”
Get down with the jangly, bouncy hipness that is “1, 2, 3, 4.” And did you know that Feist fronted a punk band way back when?