Saturday Morning Cartoons: Swipe Right
Some people need more dating apps in their life; some need less.
The Comment Awards Are Dressed To The Nines
Summer shorts, Kristen Stewart and dino dykes.
The Cheesecake Diaries
This is a story about the family that I lost and found and almost found at various The Cheesecake Factory restaurants across America.
Rhymes With Witches: Broadway Badass Elaine Stritch
“What I’m trying to say is that, Elaine Stritch was a bitch and she didn’t give a f*ck what you thought about her…She was the director of her own life and her tenacity and strong spirit will be sorely missed.”
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Girl, What’s Yo Sign?
I really wanna know what sign you are! Plus, I’m hoping to find at least 50-100 other weirdos who rely on an arbitrary constellation assignment to guide their daily lives.
Bonnaroo 2014: A Photo Diary From The Guts of a Real Person
“Megan and I took our hippie bullshit feelings back to Bonnaroo this summer and it was everything we dreamed it would be and a couple of things we didn’t want or enjoy, like heatstroke.”
Things I Read That I Love #136: I Fell So Hard for Tomato Juice One Summer
Topics include class rage, the crash of EgyptAir 990, the cruise ship industry, elephant abuse at the circus, Justin Bieber, falling in love with everything and more!
“Science” Magazine Runs Transmisogynistic Cover, Editor Tweets ‘Deception’ Tropes When Challenged
“When @JacquelynGill challenged the idea that sexually dehumanizing trans women is okay by saying the image was just another “male gazey image,” Austin responded, ‘Interesting to consider how those gazey males will feel when they find out.'”
10 Hilarious And Historical Sex Scenes From Lesbian Pulp Fiction
“Wildly, the girls locked to each other. Their bodies were gleaming now with sweat. Lip to lip, breast to breast, thigh to slippery thigh, they heaved and gyrated, ecstasy rising like a lava wave.”
Ginger Ale, Outlets, and Crying: Our Travel Rituals in Roundtable Form
From packing to arrivals and back home again, we’ve all got our own way of doing things. In this roundtable, some of Autostraddle’s finest editors share theirs.
Playlist: Walking To Target Like A Mother-Effing Champ
A playlist full of walking-down-the-street-in-your-own-happy-music-video music.
We Won A Thing: Florida Judge Overturns Same-Sex Marriage Ban, Only Applies to Monroe County
A Florida judge overturned the state’s 2008 same-sex marriage ban on Thursday, allowing same sex couples in Monroe County to marry starting on Tuesday.
How Many People Are Queer? Probably More Than Two Percent
Alternative answer: not enough. Time to start recruiting! (…Kidding.)
Dear Queer Diary: Picture This
A picture is worth a thousand words, but the pictures themselves are pretty nice, too.
White Gay Man Publishes Epically Stupid Response To “Stop Stealing Black Female Culture”
“Friess reacted to Mannie’s request that white gay men stop referring to themselves as ‘strong black women’ by threatening to withdraw hypothetical support of black women’s political and social issues (none of which he actually names)! That’s not allyship, that’s just another example of a person in power offering abstract and highly conditional support to an oppressed group of people with whom he claims a false and unrequited kinship.”
You Need Help: She Is Going Down For 15+ Minutes
Making love means never having to say you’re sorry.
Science Will Not Save Us: Medicine, Research Ethics, and My Transgender Body
“The growing “body of evidence” emerging from biological and medical research, according to some commentators, speaks loudly and clearly: transgender people exist, science says. Of course, we already knew that… Any responsible approach to folding science into advocacy efforts should not only understand what scientific research says, but how and why it came to say what it does.”
Also.Also.Also: Menstrual Art, Burning Books, and Other Stories We Missed This Week
Books about gay penguins make the Singapore government uncomfortable; also, discrimination against sex workers, trans people, and prisoners persists.
Fool’s Journey: Moving Beyond a Difficult Coming Out Experience
A reader asks what to do next now that coming out as trans has gone poorly with their family.
Protests in Murrieta and Oracle Point to the Racism of US Immigration Policies
White supremacy and racism, we know, have long and deep histories in American society. It’s not like it only occurred to Murrieta residents to be racist and xenophobic while browsing through their town’s blog.