Everything you’ve saved in Documents. Downloads. All the things. Maybe your hard drive is cringing under the weight of all the jpgs, docs. wavs and m4ps or maybe you just can’t find anything or maybe both, NO MATTER. This is the week we deal with that ish.
Why is it that time and time again, people act like they can’t make me uncomfortable? That as a butch — as well as a queer person, a top, someone who likes to flirt and be sexual just like most human beings — it’s impossible to sexually harass me?
It’s masturbation month and we have our hands full.
Topics include New York’s fancy gentleman’s clubs, Thelma & Louise, porn in San Francisco, shitty jobs, domestic violence, oxycontin abuse, scientology, band names and so much more!
“Chrysalis was going to be the best thing since sliced bread when it came to trans women. I eagerly clicked the link for the store. My jaw subsequently hit the floor, and I don’t mean that in a good way.”
This week I almost burned my apartment down. Let’s talk about how to prevent that and safer ways to fry delicious foodstuffs.
“We are safe.” It was our mantra from Monday to Saturday. Every Facebook update, every phone call with a frantic friend or family member, we repeated, “We are safe.”
I could probably talk to you about button ups forever. Someone stop me if you get bored.
Relief, gratitude and staying out after everyone else has gone inside.
Finally, some fantastic cultural analysis about women in power and women in patriotic spandex leotards saving the day.
Sane people want the new immigration bill to help binational gay couples. People in power insist that will ruin everything for everyone else. What’s a politically savvy queer to do?
Looking back at a century of cover designs from all over the world for beloved queer books like Tipping the Velvet, Orlando, The Color Purple, Annie on my Mind, Rubyfruit Jungle and more.
Autostraddle staff talks anonymously about when they started masturbating, among other things. Join us, won’t you?
Kristen’s Team Pick. And I’m not even exaggerating.
Your dog doesn’t care that you’re an anti-social drunk bookworm.
Carly directed a music video, Janelle Monae is still a queen in the future, Ender’s Game gets the Blockbuster treatment, and a new web series featuring gay siblings party together this week.
Cara’s Team Pick: “Women In Punk” offers dozens of hours of your favorite rock stars spliced together real nice on your computer. Wear your best headphones.
“She acts like she’s such a victim when obviously there was abuse on both sides.” Awkwardly, I shrug my shoulders and look around the room. My partner doesn’t notice how uncomfortable she’s making me because she’s caught up in her own conjectures: “It’s like how we are sometimes.”
Over the last few weeks, there have been two incidents of vandalism found scrawled on the walls of one of the safest spaces on the Vassar campus”
Queer leadership, Mother’s day, marriage, Brittney Griner, and dumb homophobes.