Sunday Funday’s Making Herstory with Samira Wiley, Jodie Foster, and 18 Trans Models at Montana’s First Gay Wedding
Among other important items of note, Jill and Doc became the first same-sex couple to be married in Montana!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Will Join You In The Vibratorium
The difference between theory and practice in non-monogamy, legitimizing your own sexual desire, vaginas that smell like peaches and more.
Grey’s Anatomy Recap Episodes 1107-1108: You’re Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone
It’s the episode where instead of having sex Callie and Arizona have an emotional conversation in a quiet section of the hospital. Holy shit, aren’t you excited? This is life mimicking art, y’all.
5 Apps to Track and Predict Your Period (and More!)
Apps to predict when Flo visits, the painters paint the house red, when it suddenly turns to chocolate season, etc. LET’S TALK ABOUT PERIODS, Y’ALL!
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Baopu #2
“Where’s my place? Does everyone else know theirs?”
The Comment Awards Are Making Eyes at You Across the Dance Floor
Once again, you all come through in the clutch by being super funny and adorable.
Transparent Episode 109 Recap: I Want You To Be Here
In which we get a dozen different emotions for the price of one.
Fan Fiction Friday: 7 Pretty Little Liars Stories to Set Your Heart (and Pants) on Fire
Alison DiLaurentis knows you want to kiss her.
Autostraddle Insider Issue Five: November 2014
This month we visit Club Drizzy, Heather gets punched in the face by a racist stranger at the airport, we pause to admire new merch, B wants to interview her not-ex-girlfriend and WHO WILL BE THE BUTT OF OUR GENERATION?
Team Pick: Feminist Hacker Barbie
“Barbie: I Can Be A Computer Engineer,” remixed.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: What Are You Thankful For?
Get in here and let’s talk about that special time of year when pie definitively wins the pie vs cake war!
Catching Flies With Honey: How To Change Anybody’s Mind
This is an essay about searching for the most effective ways to engage those ambivalent, apathetic, or misinformed people who might otherwise find themselves on the right side of justice.
Straight People Think Your Gay PDA is Gross, Study Finds
A new study examines straight attitudes towards the rights of queer couples. There’s broad support for things like hospital visitation, but still a lot of discomfort with public same-gender smooching.
Things I Read That I Love #154: Hides Junk Food All Over Her Bedroom
Topics include international development, Chris Rock, My Little Ponies, water parks, Asian-Americans on TV, the gay wing of the LA County jail, writing POC and MOAR!
Holigay Gift Guide 2014: Support These Queer and Feminist Causes In The Name of Someone Rad
Making donations in people’s names can connect your family or other important people in your life with issues that you care about.
Obama Rolls Out Plan For Executive Action On Immigration; The Struggle Continues
Is the President’s plan enough? As long as there are people whose lives and families are in the US remain vulnerable to deportation, is not enough, but it is something, and it is the result of the hard work of thousands of activists who have put everything on the line to make their presence known as undocumented and immigrant Americans who deserve rights and dignity.
10 Game-Changing Things We Learned At Facing Race 2014
2. Tension is a productive force.
Jacqueline Woodson, Ursula LeGuin Reign Triumphant at the 65th National Book Awards
Out black lesbian Jacqueline Woodson wins in youth fiction, sci-fi gender pioneer Ursula LeGuin takes home an award for distinguished contributions to American letters and skewers capitalism and Lemony Snicket ruins the mood with racist jokes.
Transgender Day of Remembrance: Critique is Resistance; Resistance is Revolution
“It’s all fine that we become aware of our lives but we need more than for you to finally see that we are walking this Earth. We need you to hear us.”
Salem Episodes 1 and 2 Recap: Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Basic Witch
We’ll be covering Salem, a occult-themed historical drama full of canon queerness, witchy TV Tropes, magick panic, and horrible colonial patriarchy.