Results for: Feel good
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It’s Black History Month! Here’s Five Of My Favorite LGBTQ Black Women
A history lesson, a poetry lesson, and a some famous queer black ladies.
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Groundbreaking Lesbian Film “Pariah”: Actually Coming to a Theater Near You
Your time has come, Hinterlands!
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Asian Evasion: How “Model Minority” College Applicants Bypass Racial Discrimination
Why labeling yourself as “Asian” on your applications might give you an unfair disadvantage when it comes to college admissions.
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Keeping It Real: Authentic Diversification in Occupy Wall Street
“What exactly does ‘success’ mean for OWS? It could mean giving power to conversations and movements that activists, organizers and thinkers have been having for years.”
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Be Still My Heart: Eileen Myles Tackles the Female Life; Black Lesbian Poets Hit the Road
I am convinced that something Eileen Myles loves is something I will love. That is, if I don’t love it already.
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“Pariah” Just Might Change The World: The Autostraddle Interviews
“Pariah” is the first mainstream American film about an African-American lesbian, and it’s really fucking good. You can watch our interview videos and read some words about it inside this post.
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Educar, No Lucrar: Students In Chile Demanding Change
”We do not want to improve the actual system; we want a profound change – to stop seeing education as a consumer good, to see education as a right where the state provides a guarantee.”
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Fox Sports, Bob Oschack, and USC: Making Fun of Asians Isn’t Funny
An on-campus humor short at USC ends in a racist Fox Sports video. It looks like one person still thinks that Asian people will accents are hilarious. Hello: the ’80s called and wants its stereotypes back.
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How I Learned to Talk (In Bed): Why This Queer Woman Cares About Consent
I had already committed, in my mind, to taking on consent activism for the rest of my life. Then I came out of the closet.
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LaLa’s Full Court Lesbians: Po is Out and Dice is Nice
Can you spot the lesbians on VH1’s reality show “LaLa’s Full Court Life”?
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How to Get an Alternative Lifestyle Haircut: Soozeecuts Tells All
Just can’t nail down your own personal alternative lifestyle haircut? We know someone who can help.
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Real L Word’s Sajdah Golde Gets Real: The Autostraddle Interview
“Imagine if you’re just meeting someone, and you look like you’re in the middle of a Verizon commercial because you got a whole fucking network behind you. That’s scary!”
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Netroots Nation 2011 Day Two: Things All Progressives Love, Actually
Day Two! All hands on tweetdeck! Queer Media and the Alternative Revolution (my panel!), overall political inspiration, business casual, and BEER.
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True Blood’s Tara: Now a Lesbian Cage Fighter
In which Tara engages in activities also enjoyed by lesbians! Surprise!
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Riese’s Team Pick: The Wire
“There are no good guys and bad guys, merely men and women who work on opposites sides of the socially acceptable.” Also, gay people!
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The Ultimate Nicki Minaj Mixtape – Unofficial AS Vol. 1
My wife put me on to the Nickster about two years before Pink Friday dropped. We are Nicki Minaj lovers and we don’t give a f*ck.
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Pure Poetry Week Starts Now! With Pure Poetry Post #1: Def Jam
We have declared this week Autostraddle Pure Poetry Week, when we are going to talk about poets we like all the time! First up is T.S. Eliot. Just kidding it’s Def Jam.
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Where the Bois Are: Bklyn Boihood is the Future
In which we talk about the future with Bklyn Boihood, “a collective that provides visibility and promotes the empowerment of masculine of center bois, lesbians, queers, trans-identified studs, doms, butches and AGs of color.”
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Autostraddle Calendar Girls 2012: Luna & Michelle are March’s Girls
We’re getting fancy this year with our Calendar Girls, where we bring you monthly behind-the-scenes videos and photos. This month it’s all about Luna and Michelle! See what March is all about. Cause it’s fuckin’ hot.
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Kathy Griffin, Wanda Sykes & Chely Wright Talk Homogay Bullying on Larry King
The stars align tonight when Kathy Griffin, Wanda Sykes, Chely Wright, Lance Bass and Tim Gunn talk gay bullying on Larry King Live — Bass talks more about how he himself was the bully and Tim Gunn remembers his darkest hours.