The Comment Awards Are Keen On 2013
It’s the last week of the year and you are all still being really hilarious.
Things I Read That I Love #56: My Own Private Idaho
Topics include River Phoenix, Sister Outsider Metalhead, poverty & a college education, not being an asshole, gun control, Alcatraz and so much more!
Time to Share Your Autostraddle Air Mail
Send us your queer correspondence!
My Top 8 Favorite Authors: Rachel, Senior Editor
I like weird books, and these people write them.
Why Do Gay Men Keep Touching My Boobs
In which we respond to “Gay Men’s Sexism and Women’s Bodies,” an article by a gay man who noticed his peers “curiously comfortable critiquing and touching women’s bodies at whim.”
Fox Nation Calls Westboro Baptist Church “Left-Wing,” We Call Bullshit
How far right could anyone possibly be in their political or religious ideology that Westboro Baptist Church is to their left?
Lez Liberty Lit #10: I Must Not Let Her Find Me Writing
This week in lit: T Cooper’s book soundtrack, favorite LGBT books of 2012, authors playing in the snow, poems from your cat’s point of view and more.
Once More with Uneasy Feelings: California’s Ex-Gay Therapy Ban Halted, Must Go Back to Court
California’s ban on ex-gay therapy was slated to go into effect on January 1, 2013. But now, a federal court has ordered an injunction on the law, stopping it from going into effect until further hearings can be conducted.
Brittani’s Video Party: It’s Not Too Late to be Too Late for Christmas
This video party has another music video relevant to your interests, George Takei, and some sexy book reading. Merry Days After Christmas.
Also.Also.Also: Touching Boobs for The Greater Good and Other Stories We Missed This Week
Viva le revolution! This week we’re taking down rape culture, the Westboro Baptist Church, and breast cancer.
2012’s Most Popular Autostraddle Posts And Top Search Terms
The Top 10 Most Popular Autostraddle Posts of 2012, 2012’s Most-Commented-Upon Posts, Top Search Terms and so much more!
Playlist: Happy Boxing Day
Today we are celebrating boxes: boxes that you wrapped, received, recycled, or folded up to reuse for next year; boxes you have been put in and boxes you will free yourself from in 2013
Going Down (South): Strapping It On
Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is only an effective strategy if you have boots to begin with.
Drinks, Debauchery, and Oh Yeah, Art: A Queer Goes To Art Basel
“Rachel Maddow is actually really sweet in person. Like, really really sweet.”
Almost Famous: Saucy Monky
New band for your ears! It’s saucy.
Boxing Day Sale! Get 20% Off Everything In The Autostraddle Store
You have exactly one day to get 20% off 2013 calendars, You Do You t-shirts, totes & underpants, Autostraddle This t-shirts, Straddle This boxer-briefs, Unicorn Plan-It shirts, A-Camp t-shirts and totes and “So Many Feelings” Memo Books!
More Than Words: Láadan
The feminist sci-fi language that never got to jump off the page and do what it was supposed to.
Girl Gallery: 25 Days of Dapper
We coming bearing good tidings of great joy: a gallery of 61 people looking dandy as f*ck for the holiday season.
Make A Thing: Infused Rum
Today, I’ll be drinking my brother’s Christmas present: infused rum!
20 Lesbionic Homoerotic Christmas Stock Photographs
Even stock photographers get a little kinky this time of year.