How To Own It: Wearable Cats and Dogs
It’s finally fashionable to be a crazy cat/dog lady. Plus a DIY custom animal sweater!
Sunday Funday Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity
I don’t know you, but I love you.
Jimmyjane Form 6 Vibrator Review
Jimmyjane’s Form 6 vibrator feels sleek and sexy and smooth and more than a little decadent.
Oh Gay Cupid! No, This is How You Take A Holiday Profile Pic
There’s less than a month to wrangle a NYE date! Make sure your craft the perfect dating pic lest you stay Single Forever and die alone, etc, etc.
Queer Your Tech With Fun: Your New Year’s Resolution to Code in 2013
So to break up the backing up series, I thought I’d just do a short interlude today: Code Academy makes it fast and fun to learn to code with JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Ruby and Python. You get these teeny tiny little badges like you’re coding girl scout nerd, which of course makes me smile a lot.
Butch Please: Sticks and Stones
“So what do you do in bed, then?” they always ask, but what they mean is “I think I already know what you do in bed because you’re a butch who likes femmes, so I’ve made assumptions on your behalf.”
“I’m Sorry, But I Can’t Fucking Do This. Can You? Can Anyone?”
“Well, I suppose we have to try to pick up the pieces and make some sort of sense of this tragedy and—you know what? Fuck it, I can’t do this.”
Get Yours: Autostraddle’s “So Many Feelings” Journals Are Here!
You have so many feelings and you better start writing them down.
University of Iowa Brings Groundbreaking Gay Question to College Admissions
The University recently added an optional question on sexual orientation to their undergraduate application, as well as a non-binary gender option.
The Comment Awards Are Home for the Holidays
Brought to you by Honey Boo Boo, eggnog and appliances that look like sex toys.
Movie Night: My Girl
This week, we are celebrating all things awkward and charming, like middle-aged morticians, make-up artists with drag sensibilities, adolescent tomboys and their wimpy male partners-in-crime, not to mention the overprevalence of denim button-downs in the 1970s.
Queer Lead Sophia Swanson Makes MTV’s “Underemployed” Worth Watching
MTV’s post-college dramedy “Underemployed” features a lesbian at the center of the action, and she’s pretty fucking cute.
Difficult Love: Watch Zanele Muholi’s Powerful Documentary on the South African LGBTQ Experience
Anyone who is interested in intersectionality, anti-colonialism, and just regular rattling of the cage of mainstream norms, this is for you.
Things I Read That I Love #54: Everything Is Natural Now
Topics include drinking on YouTube, Kiki Kanniball, the Spur Posse, EuroDisney, natural death, censorship, online universities and so much more!
Liquor With Holiday Spirit: Homemade Eggnog
Eggnog is my holiday jam. I like all kinds of eggnog. Legit. I’ve never met an eggnog that I didn’t like. So Straddlers, let’s make some nog.
A Prairie Homo Companion: Snow is a Gender-Neutral Pronoun
I started feeling cold around the time I started feeling self-conscious.
Brittani’s Video Party: Zeitgeist, Pop Music and Mistletoe
This does include a man being slapped for trying to kiss a woman under a mistletoe and I would love to discuss your reaction to this because I feel as if you will say it’s not an overreaction.
Bigot Bingo Puts the “Fun” Back in Fundamentally Flawed Argument
Nothing lightens up a white-knuckled homophobic debate like a rousing game of Bingo!
Things to Look at When You’re ‘Not Sober’ or Even When You Are, Whichever, Part 2
We just wanted to make sure you knew about this neat thing over at the New York Times. How is your day?
Holigay 2012 Gift Guide: What’s Cookin’, Good Lookin’
Food-related gifts are especially fun (if you’re into that) because they can be both useful and something your giftee would not buy themselves at the same time.