“It would have been nice to share my entire truth with her, but because of the Standards of Care, I didn’t; I feared my story would be seen as diverging from the typical trans* narrative too much.”
When it comes to Liquids that Cook Your Food, which one should you choose?
Maile first stole my heart when she said she’s been reading Autostraddle since she was “a wee closeted baby dyke” and she won me over when she told me she “continues to be a diehard fan.”
Alex, Riese, Marni and Mary hit up the GLAAD Awards in San Francisco last night and spent lots of quality time with Adam Lambert, Brittney Griner, Mel B & Jessica Clark!
This week on NSFW Sunday: living apart, what sex does/doesn’t do to your private parts, how to talk dirty in bed, when to change your sheets after sex and more.
Happy Mother’s Day, queermos!
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.