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.”
Supreme Court Considers Rejecting Affirmative Action From College Admissions Process
Affirmative action is going to the Supreme Court — maybe for the last time.
I Went to the NYC Feminist Zine Fest and All I Got Was An Awesome Time
Stories were told, pictures were taken, sexy eyes were made.
Get Baked: Ice Cream for Breakfast
You’d be surprised at what you can do with one ingredient.
Hot Lesbian With Guitar Needs Your Help to Get Famous!
Whitney Borisenok has got the guitar and the voice. Now she just needs your help to get the gig.
Art Attack! Read A F*cking Book: ‘The Last Nude’
Ellis Avery’s ‘The Last Nude’ is basically girl-on-girl fictional art history. You’re interested in it.
We Won A Thing and So Did You: Autostraddle Sweeps Bloggies 2012
If you haven’t already heard, WE WON A THING. Several actually…
Tegan and Sara Stare into the Camera, Your Soul in “Body Works” Video
Intern Grace’s Team Pick: I feel like someone told Tegan and Sara that every time they blink in this video, a kitten will die or something.
Artist Spotlight: Azealia Banks and the Second Coming of the Female Emcee
Banks is an anti-glamour loudmouth chasing big-time success without mercy or apology, because, let’s face it, who has time to apologize when you’re becoming famous this fucking fast?
Artists Attack! Ten Lesbian Photographers You Should Know (About)
From Catherine Opie to Cass Bird to Zanele Muholi, here are ten queer women with vision and talent changing the heteronormative face of contemporary photography.
Art Attack!: Tamara de Lempicka Didn’t Care Who Knew
How could you not be intrigued by a woman who proudly proclaimed, “I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don’t apply to those who live on the fringe”?