My Top 8 Favorite Authors: Vanessa, Contributing Editor
The writers I like tend to be women who live, or who have lived, in New York, and who write about girls, growing up, and what it’s like to be a human being in this world.
Let’s Get Our Shit Together, Yeah?
You guys, Apartment Therapy’s January Cure starts today and I am in there (much like swimwear). Do it with me!
Kansas Tries To Get Child Support From Sperm Donor Because Lesbians Aren’t Real Parents
A state in America has once again tried to eff things up for a same-sex couple!
Top 7 Style Blogs for The Aesthetically Oriented Queer
Fashion inspiration from the far corners of the internet.
Also.Also.Also: Obama Stands By Chuck Hagel and Other Stories We Missed This Week
Should Chuck Hagel be Defense Secretary? Who cares! Go stick your nose back in that book if you ever want to be happy, little miss.
Going Down (South): The Sass Manifesto
Sticks and stones may break your bones, but good sassin’ will knock you out for a week.
Almost Famous: Tiny Tusks
Happy New Year! It’s a queer emo, pop post-punk, heartfelt feelings party, and you’re invited!
Homeward Bound: Searching for the Secret Island of Black Queer Mixed Femmes
“I have always been a traveler, particularly as an immigrant and as a person with family hailing from Venezuela to Dominica to South India, ‘home’, ‘family’ and ‘belonging’ have always been complicated concepts.”
Idol Worship: Ten(ish) Questions with Jessica Halem
These are desperate times – and sometimes it all gets so overwhelming that we need something, someone, to remind us that there is light. That is Jessica Halem.
Make A Thing: Personalized Coasters and Bottle Cap Magnets
Coasters and magnets, together at last.
Most Underrated Posts of 2012: The Best In Non-Required Reading
Perhaps you have overlooked some of the many beautiful amazing posts we churned out this year.
Queer Girl City Guide: Tacoma, Washington
“Equally damp and flannel-friendly as its neighboring cities, it’s pretty much raining lesbians in Tacoma.”
New Year’s OPEN THREAD: Resolution Party Time
Happy New Year’s Eve! We’ll be in here talking about our feelings and figuring out how to make the world/ourselves better. And ok, probably drinking.
Straddler On The Street: Jaime
Meet Jaime, a born and bred Southerner and our very last Straddler of 2012. Jaime talks about many things including her love of New Orleans, teaching Southern lesbian literature and her “crankypants and utterly adorable” cat Stella.
Style Thief: How to Dress Like Carrie Brownstein
Sleater Kinney rockstar turned Portlandia funny girl– I can’t wait to strip down Carrie Brownstein.
Get Baked: Butternut Squash Galette
“A galette is not, as it sounds, a type of dance that is performed in pointy leather shoes and some kind of fancy hat. It is a free-form tart!”
Top 10 Best Albums of 2012 (That I Never Heard)
“According to other websites’ ‘Best Of’ lists, I didn’t listen to many good albums this year. So here are ten albums that I predict would have made it on to Autostraddle’s own “Best Of’ list, had I actually heard them.”
Ode to My Pantry: Ten Time Hacks
Ten time hacks to make cooking easier so you have more time to write top ten lists.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Making Out At Midnight
This week on NSFW Sunday: writing about sex, car sex, g-spots, the most provocative books of 2012 and more.
How To Own It: Golden Grrrl
Paint the town gold! Or, you know, your pants.