The Comment Awards Are For Winners
And that’s all of us.
Get Baked: Mini Apple Crisp
The only thing better than an apple crisp is an adorable tiny apple crisp that takes no effort whatsoever.
Melissa Ferrick Is Right Here, Still: The Autostraddle Interview
Melissa Ferrick on her inspiration for the lesbian sex anthem, “Drive,” her new music and why she was never “The Other Melissa.”
More Maddow, Different Medium: Read the Prologue to Maddow’s New Book, ‘Drift’
I’ll take her any way I can get her
Music Fix: Uh Huh Her, Magnetic Fields, Regina Spektor, Gotye and More
Uh Huh Her and Gotye have new music videos, Regina Spektor has a new single, and Magnetic Fields and Kaiser Chiefs stream new albums online.
She Wrote A Song About It: Autostraddle Love Meets Autoharp
Lizz’s Team Pick: A girl sang a song about Autostraddle while playing the autoharp. This is real life.
Autostraddle Calendar Girls 2013: Ness is Miss March
Miss March will talk with you about gender, serenade you at karaoke, and introduce you to her talented turtle! All while not wearing a top.
India’s Queer Literature Persists Despite Political Controversy Over Gays
Laura’s Team Pick: During a challenge of 2009’s decriminalization of homosexuality, journalist Nilanjana S. Roy looks at queer Indians throughout literary history.
“Interview with My Bully” Sticks Up For Your Inner Child
Whitney’s Team Pick: Ever wish you could sit down and talk to the girl who called you names, pulled your hair, or called you fat?
The Peculiar Kind: Queer Women of Color Represent!
“The Peculiar Kind says something a lot of us already know but few of us ever really talk about: the fact that activism can look like anything, that we feel for our work and fight for our causes, but we also find comfort in each other.”
Today is Say Something Nice on the Internet Day!
Everyone love everyone and say something nice, kay?
Priest Protests Grieving Lesbian’s Existence By Ditching Her Mom’s Funeral, Makes Bad Day Worse
Marriage equality comes to Maryland! Also in Maryland: a priest officiating a funeral denies the deceased’s lesbian daughter communion, walks out during her eulogy and skips final blessings altogether.
Boots 101: One Boot, Two Boot, Red Boot, Blue Boot, Queer Boots for Every Occasion
This is maybe the last article you will ever need to read about boots.
Art Attack!: Ariel Schrag Relives High School So You Don’t Have To
Schrag captures the anxiety of queer adolescence, will make your heart break, make you cry.
A Very Queer Edition of “Things I Read That I Love”
Topics include “The L Word: Not Your Mother’s Lesbians,” “Straight Girl’s Seduction” and “the ambisexual, heteroflexible teen.”
Bradley Manning Is Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize as Court-Martial Begins
“It is technically possible that Manning could be imprisoned for life for aiding the enemy (and 21 other counts) while also winning a Nobel Peace Prize for the same series of decisions.”
Art Attack! Spotlight: Sadie Lee Demands That You Look
Lesbian art or lesbian artist? Either way, Sadie Lee leaves a mark.
Playlist: Feeling Like a Champion
If you come out on the other side of this playlist without dead lifting all the sadness in your life out the window and then walking up to someone with the sole intention of pointing at them as you say, “Hey, I’m a fucking champion,” my bad.
Artist Attack! Spotlight: Laura Doughtie Makes Art From Moments of Failure
“Embracing failure. Obsessive thoughts. Banal repetition of actions. For me they can be both very meditative and calming or crazed and overwhelming. Intensely intimate.”
10 Things I’ve Learned About Flying and 5 Things I Never Will
“It’s like being an anonymous bear in an anonymous bearcave 30,000 feet in the air.”