Some have criticized Tarttelin’s protagonist as being unbelievably undisturbed and mainstream, but as someone who actually is intersex, I found his character so believable that I thought for a minute she might have modeled him after me!
“Burka Avenger,” Pakistan’s first original animated TV series, features a female superhero who’s sparked a debate about whether her burqa disguise is “cool or conformist.” Why is this still the issue about Muslim women?
Or as he says, “…for the individual labeled a “babe” to become a sex object requires that person’s participation.”
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.
If you’re as food info hungry as I am, sometimes your eyes and ears are called on to truly satisfy your cravings.
“I’d skipped a really basic question: why do some languages, including English, have gender woven into them in the first place?”
Aimée talks about her femme identity, what it’s like to have lupus, and the cultural differences between the United States and Ireland.
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.
This week on NSFW Sunday: radicalizing sex by making it about pleasure, friends with benefits, orgasming for seven hours on film and more.
Tegan and Sara and the state of Minnesota could not be more adorable right now.
This week in Rosewood Rumer Willis drops by to show off some sexy pictures of Emily drilling. Drill, baby, drill.
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.”
Tampons, cat allergies and Orange Is The New Black. Always Orange Is The New Black.
Raven Symone is finally out!
“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.”
“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.”
Here’s hoping she gives Gladys a call during the show!
Butches and dogs! Dogs and butches! What can be better? Nothing, actually. Nothing is better than butches and dogs.
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!
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.