Haviland Stillwell will be performing live with Amir Levi (of Unicorn Plan-It hilarity and fame) and a bevy of talented musicians, including Autostraddle’s own Alex Vega tomorrow night in LA. Get into it!
LA’s getting a Video Game Design Patch, y’all! Be prepared for our younger generation to take on STEM fields!
This begins with me already being a feminist, but ends with me making peace with being a woman.
Hot new songs from Laura Marling, Florence + the Machine, Polica + Justin Vernon, plus a few special words from Carmen Rios about Drake.
I bet you have soy feelings. Why not let them out in limerick form for Soypreciation Month?
This week on Glee, The New Rachel dreamed a dream that Glee was good again and Marley-Kate wrote some songs with Lord Tubbington and Finn missed sociology!
The surprising similarities between feminist pornographers and anti-porn feminists, The Adipositivity Project how to have better orgasms and more.
This week’s going to be a billion times nicer than last week. I pinky promise. Here’s some animals, a big ol’ bowl of pasta, and a street wedding to prove it.
Happy 4-20!
A new study purports that gay boys in homophobic environments pour their attentions into their studies and sports instead. Why is this, and does this apply to queer girls too?
CISPA could mean the end of internet privacy for many. It asks that age old question: which is more important? Freedom or security? And where is the line between the two that we can comfortably walk without compromising our priorities as a democracy?
I’d like to thank Teen Jesus, who I have prayed to every night for additional seasons of this occasional hellscape.
Better than the news.
Wait, so this hadn’t happened yet?
This week we’re making couscous, a food I’ve never had before because I can be a little stubborn about food.
Topics include Gia Carnagi, Jenna Lyons, Dodd-Frank, solitary confinement, day care, Q*bert, Khadijah Williams, Prom 1995, Shutterbabe and more!
A new report on the well-being of LGBT people of color reveals the disparities they face and recommends solutions that we can be a part of.
I want to talk about shape-shifting, and clothing, and being a butch who wears things, because so much of butchness is tied up in the things we put on our body.
This week Ohio and West Virginia attempt to take us back to 1050 A.D., retro style. Ohio is trying to restrict sex education to abstinence-only and a West Virginia high school tries to punish a student for protesting a slut-shaming assembly.
Topics include finding quality queer books, the Pultizers, Maya Angelou, a big week at the Lesbrary, SO MANY EVENTS and what we’ve been reading.