Know Your IX Wants Sexual Assault Survivors to Know They Deserve Better From Their Schools
“Most of us just didn’t know. We didn’t realize that we were guaranteed these rights, so we just went along with it.”
Teen Choice Awards Liveblog And Open Thread
It’s the 2013 Teen Choice Awards, hosted by Pretty Little Liars’s Lucy Hale and Glee’s Darren Criss!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Will Sext You Back
This week on NSFW Sunday: sexting, loud sex and silent sex and your sex, why there isn’t a lot of free feminist porn and more.
Sunday Funday Loves Tina Fey and Poussey
Let’s get ready to fun-ble!
Archie Comics Gets Its First Gay Kiss, Takes On One Million Moms
Which isn’t a big deal, but also totally is.
When You Wish Upon a Star: Throw Yourself a Perseids Party
In your childhood, did your mom wake up you at weird hours on school nights to watch meteor showers because they were more important than 2nd grade? Or was that just my mom? Either way, we’re all now Adults and we can get up (or stay up) to watch the meteor shower of our own volition.
Team Pick: Vaginal Fantasy Discusses “Tipping The Velvet” With Hannah Hart
Felicia Day, Hannah Hart, and your other favorite geek girls are talking about Tipping the Velvet!
Get Baked: S’mores Cookie Bars for the Second Annual Autostraddle National S’mores Day Celebration
National S’mores Day is tomorrow and we are SO READY.
The Comment Awards Want To Know Where Babies Come From
Your thoughts on ex-gay pride, cute aggression and baby-making.
“Orange Is The New Black” Episode 109 Recap: The One Where They Finally Do It
Indeed, they are lesbianing together.
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.
Pretty Little Liars Recap 409: Into the Dyke Birthday Party
Paige throws Emily a surprise birthday party but Emily shows up completely pissed off. This is not going to end well.
Things I Read That I Love #87: The Cranky, Smart Soulmate Every Aspiring Artist Pines For
Topics include Creedmor Psychiatric Center, San Francisco, Jeanette Walls, LSD, Eddie Ellis, The O.C., housesitting, selfies, rape in a Mennonite community, Texas, the lottery and more!
Sally Ride And Bayard Rustin To Be Posthumously Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
President Obama has released the names of sixteen recipients to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on its 50th anniversary.
Mira Bellwether and “Fucking Trans Women” Zine: The Autostraddle Interview
“When one of my lovers said that she wished she had an instruction manual for my body, I took that and responded to it pretty literally.”
Quilting For QUILTBAGS Part 3: Patching It Together
After many (many) hours, you’ll have a quilt all ready to grace your bed, sofa or chair with its warmth, charm and I-made-that-ness.
Dream 9 Released From Immigration Detention on Parole, Await Asylum Hearing While They Make History
Immigration officers found that the nine had “credible fear of persecution or torture in their birth country” of Mexico, and therefore could not be removed from the US.
Brittani’s Video Party: The Secret Life of Geeky Jay Z
Women in gaming, animals so cute you want to squeeze them, and Kristen Wiig’s new movie party to “Picasso Baby.”
Lez Liberty Lit #26: Summertime, and The Reading is Easy
The books of Orange is the New Black, diversity in kids’ books, heroic librarians, subtle ways of convincing those around you to read your favorite childhood novels and more.
Jeanne Córdova’s “When We Were Outlaws”: Who Says the Second Wave’s Not Sexy?
“Being an activist leader brought dozens of women to my bed,” Córdova recalls. “Power seemed to attract people, and my political life put me at the center of the action.”