You Should Go: Julie Goldman In Manhattan, Everybody!
Come hang out with other Autostraddlers in NYC and witness Julie Goldman being hilarious! Discounted tickets! Priority seating!
Straddler On The Street: Emily
Emily lives in Canada and went to A-Camp 3.0, and she shared her feelings about being biracial, getting into roller derby, and having a cat named Barbra Streisand. Also it’s Canada Day so you basically need to shower her with love and maple leaves.
Ode to My Pantry: Poutine
It’s Canada Day! What else do you expect from me?
Autostraddle Calendar Girls 2014: Drea is Miss July
July is smokin’ hot with Drea and her musical poetry and haikus! You won’t know if you want to be her or be with her, you know? Luckily there’s an questionnaire at the end.
NSFW Sunday Is Reviewing Sex Party Etiquette
This week on NSFW Sunday: why porn for women isn’t like Bic For Her, height differences, asexuality and more.
Team Pick: The 90s Button Is Timetraveling Intergalactic Joy
Team Pick: ’90s nostalgia, anyone?
Butch Please: Butch Seeking Butch (For Friendship)
Okay, I’ll say it: I have trouble making butch friends. Actually, I have trouble feeling like I am a part of the butch community, period.
Let’s Celebrate Our First Sunday Funday In A Post-DOMA World
Yes, we need to keep working. But can we fuckin’ party for a second please.
Pretty Little Liars 403: Cat’s Cradle, Silver Snoop
The week on Pretty Little Liars everyone is snooping around and we catch up on some Deep Thoughts with Melissa Hastings.
Team Pick: Five Stars for the Amazon Reviews of Wendy Davis’s Filibuster Sneakers
Ali’s Team Pick: Because everyone in the U.S. with half a brain has already team picked Wendy Davis as a Senator and badass super human, I will do everyone a feminist-comedy-solid by team picking the Amazon Review of Wendy Davis’s sneakers.
Google Goggles Galore: Google-Related Things That Happened This Week
Google, guys. There was a lot doing at Google this week. Flipping through all my tech websites, I felt like Google was covered even more than normal.
Joy and Rage: Why the Fight for Queer Equality Doesn’t End with Marriage
The struggles of queer and trans* people are no less important than the struggles of gay people, and if they move forward without us, they are not moving forward at all.
The Comment Awards Are Getting Married
Will you marry us?
Canadian Children’s Book Explains How Babies are Made in a Gender-Neutral Way!
“Every thing that grows, grows differently. Each of us grow in our own way.”
DIY Beauty Bar: Dry Shampoo For Everyone
Summertime means staying up late on warm nights… maybe even too late to wash your hair. We’ve got just the thing for you.
This Happens: Sexual Assault Between Queer Women
Poet Leah Horlick comes out about her search for healing and answers after surviving lesbian sexual assault.
Things I Read That I Love #81: If Sophie Had To Choose Between Two Awesome Things
Topics include temp workers, Dennis Rodman, Phish, Kanye, Wilcox County’s first integrated prom, murder, fertility, Mary McCarthy and so much more!
Quilting for QUILTBAGS Part 1: It’s All In The Design
Ever wanted to make a blanket? There are centuries of grandmas and just generally grand people who have been making quilts and will happily lend their shoulders for us to stand on.
Team Pick: A Tumblr Which Brings Sanity to the Internet Like Ginsburg to the SCOTUS
Cara’s Team Pick: The Notorious RBG is a new Tumblr dedicated to promoting the life and work of the Supreme Court’s second female justice of all time. (It’s 2013, just as a reminder.)
Lez Liberty Lit #23: A Spectacle To Taste
Queer book recommendations, oral histories, poet-prostitute profiles, if Gertrude Stein reviewed beer and more.