“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.”
We don’t know much, but we know we love them.
“The future of porn is feminist.”
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.
Brittany and Sally got married on the Grammy’s last year and now they are headed into the sex box.
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.
While Dr. Geena Davis is in surgery, Callie and Arizona realize they hardly even hate each other anymore.
Evan Rachel Wood, Golden Globe and Emmy nominated actress and babely human, might have weekend cool mastered… #EvanRachelWould, indeed.
“Being an ambiguously brown-ish person, there are a huge amount of strangers that ask me questions about my race.”
Keep calm and fall in love with your sidekick, over and over and over.
Meet you in the pillow fort!
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!
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.
Topics include same-sex adoption, the 50 Shades movie, Keurig cups, the Ferguson Police Department, Susan Berman, the missing Malaysia Airlines flight and moar!
Sometimes you want a chocolate cake to hit you in the face like a moist, fragrant, delicious brick. With sprinkles.
Lambda finalists, queer representation in comics, Emily Books getting more awesome and more.
It’s going to snow forever and I am completely fucking sick of it.
“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.”
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.
The Family Equality Council threw a fabulous shindig that honored the different ways in which people are fighting for LGBTQ equality. Plus, they had an excellent dessert selection.