VIDEO: The Melissa Harris-Perry Show Does “Orange Is the New Black”
Melissa Harris-Perry interviewed Uzo Aduba, Kate Mulgrew, Laverne Cox and Piper Kerman on her show and Laverne Cox name-dropped Autostraddle and it was awesome.
Ode to My Pantry: Consuming Food without Chewing
If you’re as food info hungry as I am, sometimes your eyes and ears are called on to truly satisfy your cravings.
More Than Words: Pronouns Pt. 2 — How’d Gender Get In Here?
“I’d skipped a really basic question: why do some languages, including English, have gender woven into them in the first place?”
Straddler On The Street: Aimée
Aimée talks about her femme identity, what it’s like to have lupus, and the cultural differences between the United States and Ireland.
How “Real” Is “Orange Is The New Black”? Comparing The Show To The Memoir To The Numbers
A look at the stories behind the stories and the humans behind the characters and the numbers behind those stories in everybody’s favorite lezalicious prison dramedy.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Wants To Make Sex Radical
This week on NSFW Sunday: radicalizing sex by making it about pleasure, friends with benefits, orgasming for seven hours on film and more.
This Land Was Made for Gays & Queers This Sunday Funday
Tegan and Sara and the state of Minnesota could not be more adorable right now.
Pretty Little Liars Recap 408: The Guilty Gay’s Handbook
This week in Rosewood Rumer Willis drops by to show off some sexy pictures of Emily drilling. Drill, baby, drill.
Three Cheers for Online Community With Amy T. Falcone, Queer Webcomic Artist
Falcone has a new comic forthcoming, called Clique Refresh, and it’s “a love letter to internet friends and what it means to feel most at home online.”
The Comment Awards Will Throw Their Pie For You
Tampons, cat allergies and Orange Is The New Black. Always Orange Is The New Black.
Raven Symone Is Gay: Now You Can Say “That’s So Gayven!” With Abandon
Raven Symone is finally out!
Unchained NYC: Flogging, Spanking, and Dommes, Oh My!
“I just need to hit you with this,” said the woman at the door. She held up a rubber stamp and I held out my hand. “Well, not hit you hit you. But it is that kind of party.”
Autostraddle Calendar Girls 2014: Katie is Miss August
“I came out to bosses and people I had just met and guys who hit on me and former boyfriends and doctors and professors and relatives and Facebook and even the grocery store cashiers. I wanted to assert myself, my identity.”
Ellen Is Hosting The Oscars, Which Will Have 100% More Gay and 100% Less Seth MacFarlane
Here’s hoping she gives Gladys a call during the show!
“Orange Is The New Black” Episode 107 Recap: Butches and Dogs! Dogs and Butches!
Butches and dogs! Dogs and butches! What can be better? Nothing, actually. Nothing is better than butches and dogs.
Things I Read That I Love #86: An Outsider Is Likely To See Things That Insiders Will Not See
Topics include Kimani Grey, stripping in a boomtown, grief, Reddit and the Boston Bombing, Rodney King, “Sex and the City,” Mary Gaitskill, sexism in the Texas legislature, travel guides and more!
Captain’s Log: Chick Bands Get Loud
This month’s edition is all about chick bands – badass women who play their own guitars, program their own beats and hit their own things with their very own sticks.
Guilty Pleasures, Girl Power, and Jamie Babbit: The Autostraddle Interview
We talk about being a queer filmmaker, guilty pleasure movies, and the complicated politics of sex scenes.
Cheryl Boone Isaacs Appointed First Black President of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Is Badass
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences took a big step into the present by selecting its first ever African-American president and third woman president.
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back for Trans Anti-Discrimination Work in Malaysia
Reactionary conservatism stands in the way of the Southeast Asian nation’s first state-based transgender welfare committee, but change could still happen with its first out trans political appointee.