Playlist: F*ck Humility
I can pretty much guarantee you there are still people in the world who need to hear more about how great you are.
Remembering $PREAD Magazine in a City Once Synonymous With Sex Work
“The magazine’s legacy turns 10 years old this month, though its publication was cut mercilessly short at five and a half years. Started by Rachel Aimee, Rebecca Lynn and Raven Strega, Aimee recalls a trio without any publication experience and an urgency to compile the stories of sex workers available to them.”
19 Things We Know About Season Three Of “Orange Is The New Black”
We don’t know much, but we know we love them.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Lounging Around Half-Naked
“The future of porn is feminist.”
Sunday Funday is Supergirl, and She’s Here to Queer the World
Hannah Hart and other YouTube stars you love hand down some advice to their younger selves, a weasel hitches a ride on a woodpecker’s back, Planet Fitness makes us proud, Amy Poehler lays down some sick rhymes, the SCOTUS gets peer pressured for good, and, oh right! Your first peek at the Supergirl TV show costume.
A Pastor, a Sexologist, and a Psychotherapist Send Two Lesbians into the “Sex Box”
Brittany and Sally got married on the Grammy’s last year and now they are headed into the sex box.
Second Annual “Lesbians Who Tech” Summit Ups the Ante
LWT brings a diverse array (nerds will get the pun) of queer women who technologically kick ass to the Castro and Silicon Valley for the second year in a row.
Grey’s Anatomy Episode 1114 Recap: Everybody’s Got A Plan Until They Get Punched In The Mouth
While Dr. Geena Davis is in surgery, Callie and Arizona realize they hardly even hate each other anymore.
Evan Rachel Wood Knows Exactly What You Should Wear This Weekend
Evan Rachel Wood, Golden Globe and Emmy nominated actress and babely human, might have weekend cool mastered… #EvanRachelWould, indeed.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: What Are You?
“Being an ambiguously brown-ish person, there are a huge amount of strangers that ask me questions about my race.”
Fan Fiction Friday: 10 Xena Fics to Get Your Chakram Going
Keep calm and fall in love with your sidekick, over and over and over.
The Comment Awards Are Going On Staycation
Meet you in the pillow fort!
Win or Get An A+ Membership and Be There For Our A+ AMA Advice-a-Thon On March 9th
We’re having an Advice-a-Thon/AMA on A+ on Monday to celebrate our sixth birthday with tons of Autostraddle editors and special guests like La Loba Loca, Mallory Ortberg, Dannielle Owens-Reid and more! We’re also giving away some free A+ memberships to ‘Straddlers-in-need and THIS is the post wherein you can get yourself in the running!
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Hello Internet, I’m Back! I Missed You So Much!
Hello I had no Internet for a week and I forgot I existed. Come tell me all about the world around you so I can once again feel the thrill of posting a comment in response to you on this very website! GET IN HERE SO WE CAN LOVE EACH OTHER, DAMN IT.
Things I Read That I Love #169: More Stories We Tell Ourselves In Order to Live
Topics include same-sex adoption, the 50 Shades movie, Keurig cups, the Ferguson Police Department, Susan Berman, the missing Malaysia Airlines flight and moar!
Get Baked: This Chocolate Cake
Sometimes you want a chocolate cake to hit you in the face like a moist, fragrant, delicious brick. With sprinkles.
Lez Liberty Lit #67: Sick Day Reading
Lambda finalists, queer representation in comics, Emily Books getting more awesome and more.
Playlist: I Am Absolutely Not Going Back Outside
It’s going to snow forever and I am completely fucking sick of it.
UK Home Office Says Aderonke Apata Can’t Be Gay Because She Has Children, Duh
“By ignoring the complexities of coming out both those who identify as bisexuals and lesbians with mixed dating histories like Ms. Apata are seen as demonstrating the idea that people can choose their identities with relative ease, and therefore the threat they face is technically self-inflicted.”
You Need Help: Coming Out In Your Mid/Late 20s
The fact that you’re working through all this now doesn’t say anything negative about you or the way you moved through life for the past 24 years. What you did then was valid, and what you’re doing now is valid.