Queer Women of Color Poetry Tour Needs Help, Promises A Revival
“It’s up to the poets. It’s up to us to continue.”
Genderf*ck The Internet!
Two plug-ins that will turn the internet into your personal queer happy place.
The Comment Awards Just Got Born
Remember when you said that thing?
Get Baked: Fortune Cookies
They’re adorable and creative and you should make some for someone you love.
Be Part of HBO’s New Documentary About Relationships
They’re hoping to feature people “from all walks of life,” which means they could be looking for Y-O-U!
Pretty Little Liars Recap 305: That Girl is Poison in Your Drink
Emily wears a tie and Paige gets wipeout wasted. It’s all just spectacular.
Things I Read That I Love #33: Girls, Sex, Money
Topics include lesbian enclaves, the worst child neglect story ever, school segregation, the Pulitzer, the “age of girlfriends,” sex in red states vs. blue states, stoned fortysomethings and more!
Read a F*cking Book: “Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity”
On makeup: “this ritualized mask-making / not to hide behind / but to put forth”
Amy Poehler Makes Fun of Talk Shows While Praising Awesome Young Women
Amy Poehler’s web series uses inspiring girls to prove that everyone is an inspiration but also everyone is boring.
Romney Receives Low Ratio of Applause to Boos at the NAACP Convention
In which the audience applauded upholding traditional family and booed the elimination of Obamacare, and Mitt Romney remained an idiot.
Edwin Leslie Stands Up To Governor Jan Brewer, Makes a Lot of Sense About Cents
Edwin Leslie, appointed by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer to the State of Arizona Tourism Advisory Council, resigned on Tuesday in protest of Brewer’s attempt to discontinue healthcare benefits for same-sex partners of state employees. He deserves our applause.
Set Your Phasers To Awesome: Autostraddle’s At Comic Con
I was there for you and I wanted to buy everything.
We Must, We Must, We Must Study Your Bust
You have them. Scientists want to study them.
The Semi-Official “Real L Word” Season Three Drinking Game
Just in case you weren’t already planning on it.
Also.Also.Also: Barney Frank Got Married and Other Stories We Missed This Week
The Good, The Bad, and The Kanye, feat. Jan Brewer, Mitt Romney, and Sweden.
Episcopal Church Blesses Our Messes, Likes Gender Neutral Language Too
The Episcopal House of Bishops recently approved a blessing for same-sex couples in an overwhelming 111-41 vote.
Get Baked: Power of the Clam Pasta
It is a truth universally acknowledged that clams are super gay.
The Trials, Tribulations & Turning of True Blood’s Tara Thornton
How “True Blood” blew its chance to respectfully write a queer woman of color, and how maybe just maybe they are about to make up for it.
Frank Ocean’s “Channel Orange” Is Perfect: The Autostraddle Review
This is a great fucking album.
Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry: Gay Marriage is Family Values
“By taking out the ‘moral’ question of marriage equality and instead communicating it in Republican lingo itself, this campaign may have found a way to get someone to listen.”