You Need Help: When Relationships Feel Sorta Dull
“Is there a way to feel that passion and craziness again after 2.5 years together?”
Things I Read That I Love #82: I Hate The Word “Bitch” But I’ve Used It So Many Times In My Head When I’m Thinking About You
Topics include food fluffers, music in prison, abortion, video games, “The Room,” publishing black literary fiction, picky eaters and so much more!
Important Prairie Homo News: Rae Spoon Announces “My Prairie Home” Tour Dates
Spoon explains that “My Prairie Home” will explore themes of “death, coming out as queer during high school, and surviving abuse.”
The Comment Awards Are Feeling The Heat
A roundup of posts from this week, plus boobs and haikus!
Check Out the First Binational Lesbian Couple In America To Be Granted Green Card Approval
A lesbian couple from Boulder, Colorado has been approved for the first green card granted to a same-sex spouses.
DIY Beauty Bar: Bug Off!
Looking for a DEET-free way to keep mosquitos away? Mix up an anti-bug soap or lotion bar.
Queer Girl City Guide: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax is a historic city with the Celtic charm expected of Nova Scotia, overflowing with arts, culture, music and bars, so many bars. As it’s the biggest city in the Maritimes region of Canada, lots of queers from across Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI make the pilgrimage to our seaside city.
Fat Liberation Is Totally Queer
“Social equality for all people, regardless of size, must become a goal of the queer movement.”
Lez Get Dressed For Work: It’s Hot AND Rainy, and Your Feet Are Miserable
What in the world do you wear on your feet when it’s pouring rain and 90 degrees? Let’s go beyond the choice between hot feet and wet feet and figure out how to make this work.
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.”
Lillian’s College Lesbianage: Out Of The Vassar Bubble And Into China
I now realize that Chinese is, for lack of a better metaphor, like a crazy ex-girlfriend. She seemed nice and inviting at first but then I realized she’s hard to deal with.
Panic! in the Locker Room: On Fighting for Trans* Youth with Words as Weapons
“I mostly ignored the emails, as anyone with an overflowing inbox does. But this subject line caught my eye: Boys in the girls locker room, legally? WTF?! Maybe now is a good time to mention that I identify and visibly present as genderqueer.”
Brittani’s Video Party: Janelle Monae’s Lips Are All Over Her Hacker Girlfriend
Janelle Monae’s new video, SassiBob’s new Sarah Croce directed webseries, an ad relevant to your interests, and a band-themed lesbo webseries are eating ribs at this week’s video party.
Out Actress Ashleigh Sumner Returns in “Bruno And Earlene Go To Vegas”: The Autostraddle Interview
Jess chats with talented actress and artist, Ashleigh Sumner about her starring role in the new indie film, Bruno And Earlene Go To Vegas, premiering this month at Outfest!
A Prairie Homo Does New York: Wooooh, Dyke March!
“When you’re surrounded by so many queers celebrating queer, you feel normal by default.”
DeAnne Smith’s Questionable at Best Asks “How Much Fun is Drinking”
“Whisky and Doritos is a great diet.”
Kate’s College Lesbianage: School’s (Not) Out For Summer!
It might be June, but Kate’s still in school – in England! She’s spending her rainy summer days memorizing Shakespeare and sorting through ancient books.
Jamie Babbit’s New “Breaking the Girls”: Coming to an LGBTQ Film Fest Near You
There’s a suspenseful thriller involving girl-on-girl sexytimes (among other things, of course) and is directed by Jamie Babbit. Relevant to your interests!
Almost Famous: Leanne Harte
A Dublin-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose new EP you’re really gonna love.
“The Fosters” Episode 105 Recap: Remember When You Used to Love My Chimichangas?
Digression 6: My first lesbian date ended on the roof of a small town Pizza Hut, but she knew what we were doing because she helped me push the dumpster up against the wall.