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15 Trailblazing Women and How They Made the Internet

Fifteen badass ladies in the history of computers and the web and the badass things they did.

Equaldex: Exploring the New Virtual Information-Sharing Network for Global LGBT Rights

Equaldex is giving LGBT folks around the world the ability to define and explain their own movements for the rest of us. And it’s helping us all to learn from one another in our parallel movements for equality.

Upworthy Springfield: Linkbait With A Hint of Nostalgia

What happens when the biggest, loudest, most annoying echo-chamber on the Internet gets invented in Springfield?

Data After Death: A Digital Will for a Digital Age

More of our lives are lived digitally by the day, and it’s time to start thinking about what happens to all this when we die: do we want it to go to someone else, to be erased, or to remain indefinitely in the ether(net)?

Autostraddle Makes Refinery29’s “24 Best Websites For Women”

Refinery29 wasn’t thrilled with Forbes’ list of the top 100 websites for women (and really, who was?) so they decided to compile a list of their own. We’re proud to say we made the cut!

Brittani and Kim Stolz are Gay This Week on HuffPost Live

Brittani and Kim Stolz will be joining the HuffPost Live team for a new segment that recaps the week in gay. Tune in today at 4:45pm ET.

The Bechdel Files Are Basically Everything I’ve Ever Wanted From The Internet

Does it count if it’s Scully talking to Queequeg? Important questions.

Team Pick: The Toast Is The Yummiest New Website

“The Toast prefers free weights to circuit machines but also enjoys a good sit. The Toast doesn’t care how much you or Marilyn Monroe weigh. The Toast is happy, then dignified. The Toast is not haunted, but would welcome a visit from ghosts.”

Team Pick: A Tumblr Which Brings Sanity to the Internet Like Ginsburg to the SCOTUS

Cara’s Team Pick: The Notorious RBG is a new Tumblr dedicated to promoting the life and work of the Supreme Court’s second female justice of all time. (It’s 2013, just as a reminder.)

Idol Worship: Ten(ish) Questions with the Coquette On Getting Your Sh*t Together

“I’ve been doing this shit for half a damn decade, and I honestly couldn’t tell you how any of it happened.”

25 Pictures Of The Lesbian Internet, 1997-2007

Once upon a time in a land far far away, lesbians found the internet and covered it with rainbows!

F To 7th Is For the Homoneurotic in All of Us

Vanessa’s Team Pick: F to 7th is “a homoneurotic web series about Ingrid Jungermann and her descent into lesbian middle age,” it’s really funny, has awesome guest stars and I think you need to watch it.

Lez Give Them Something To Talk About: First Time Gay Hook-Ups, Qs For Lesbian Moms, Et Al

Five recently-published articles from the mainstream including “I’m a lesbian who loves Channing Tatum” and “My Lady-Date Is Hotter Than Me And I’m Trying To Be An Adult About It.”

Sockpuppet Theatre Turns Internet Drama Into High Comedy

Rose’s Team Pick: This new YouTube show from Regretsy creator April Winchell will have you rolling on the floor – and maybe also nodding in recognition at some silly comment threads you’ve witnessed.

Original Plumbing Needs Your Love, Support, Cold Hard Cash ASAP

Original Plumbing deserves a new website, and in the spirit of brotherhood and the revolution and Autostraddle redesign karmic juices, I’m urging you to make it happen.