Badass Blacksmiths: Women’s Work and Transgender Identity
People would look surprised and say, “But…you can’t be a girl. You’re a blacksmith!”
“This Shit Has Got to Change”: The Autostraddle Interview with Black Lesbian Feminist Legend Barbara Smith
This past Saturday, just a few hours before the Millions March in NYC, I sat down with Barbara Smith, a Black lesbian feminist legend.
Notes From A Queer Engineer: On Comets and Caroline Herschel
A Cinderella story, with less bibbidi bobbidi and a lot more astronomy.
Rebel Girls: 5 Bad Theories on Gender and Sex From Way Back When That Still Impact us Today
Not everything science has given us has made our lives better.
Rebel Girls: The Totally Badass Suffrage Exploits of Yore That Gave Us Today’s Voting Rights
A lot of women went through a lot of shit so you could vote, so shut up and do it.
Rebel Girls: The Women I Wish I Could Vote For
Although the nation’s highest offices have been sought by many badass women, we have yet to win. It’s enough to make me wish we could go back in time and vote for, well, these chicks.
Rebel Girls: Mapping Power, Privilege, and Oppression
In which we learn about matrices, intersectionality, and why oppression only works in one direction.
Rebel Girls: Defining Privilege, Oppression, and Everything In Between
In which we learn about the basics of privilege, oppression, and what they have to do with each other.
Five Rad LGBT Artifacts You Can Find at the Smithsonian
The Smithsonian’s LGBT collection isn’t all-encompassing, but it still has some awesome stuff!
Rebel Girls: The Illustrated (And Quite Condensed) History of Women’s Studies
Women’s studies. What the f*ck is that? And how the f*ck did it get that way? Let’s find out!
Rebel Girls: Your Handy-Dandy Map to the Feminist Movement
Just like you and I contain multitudes, so does the movement which advocates for women’s empowerment and equality.
10 Most Unstoppable Women Ever
Stories of ten incredible women who have overcome everything from racism to gravity to frostbite in order to push us all forward.
Rebel Girls: The Writing That Made A Movement (Or A Bunch of Feminism’s Primary Sources)
Women’s studies, as a whole, is a discipline grounded in words. These pieces are some of the words that ground the entire thing.
Lorraine Hansberry Liked, Hated and Was Bored To Death With Being A Lesbian
Lorraine Hansberry’s lists of stuff she Liked, Hated and was Bored to Death With puts everyone currently working in the list business to shame.
Rest in Power, Yuri Kochiyama
Let us celebrate the life and legacy of a civil rights heroine, Yuri Kochiyama.
We Thought We Had The Voice Forever: In Memoriam of Maya Angelou
“For me, as a black, lesbian, masculine-of-center woman, I thank her for showing me how to make my invisible self visible.”
More Than Words: More Words, Then!
How to further evolution — with just your brain and your tongue!
12 (More) Ladies Who Were Writing Sexy Lesbian Love Letters Before You Got Born
“I slept in your place and on your pillow — it was most as good as the cigarette you lit and gave me all gooey — not quite, for we had you and the sweet taste too — I am foolish about you I admit.”
14 Locations Conducive To Lesbianism According To 1954’s “Female Homosexuality”
“The fact that both male and female homosexuals congregate on one island no doubt gives them a sense of what might be called herd-security, much like sheep gathering together under a tree during a storm.”
Rebel Girls: Women’s Studies Saved My Life, And I Want It To Change Yours, Too
“I try to remain impartial about most things,” she told us, “except for two: Ronald Reagan and Phyllis Schafly.”