Lez Liberty Lit #48: It’s Totally Okay To Read YA Novels, You Guys
A new comic from Alison Bechdel, gendered pronouns, volatile organic compounds, arguments about YA fiction, fairy tales and more.
Upon Going Home: Review of “The Messiah Complex”
“The Messiah Complex is radical because it takes on concepts of beauty, class differences, gender roles, and navigates love and life in a trans or gender-nonconforming body, all within a Black context. Never before have I seen so many nuanced themes in an all Black cast.”
Pretty Little Liars Recap 501: EscApe From Your Lesbian Lover
In which we learn that the last two seasons of Pretty Little Liars was actually nothing but dyke drama.
Take the Lead: A Beginner’s Adventure at Queer Tango Festival
“Trying to be cool about it, I stood next to a woman with gravitas who immediately turned to me and asked me to be her partner. She told me she’d been dancing tango as a follow for three years and was now learning to lead. And so yours truly, a middle-aged butch dyke, happily took the position of follow to a 20-something lead in an A-line dress.”
TOMBOYISH: Ari Fitz’s New Series Is Like Looking in the Mirror
TOMBOYISH is a hybrid documentary and fashion show that shows you the well-dressed people of Ari’s higher-profile world (and takes you into their brains) and offers style advice to the masses hoping to f*ck gender and look good doing it.
Things I Read That I Love #131: Here We Go, A Nightmare of Mud and Madness
Topics include segregation in public schools, dairy farming, antibiotics, the Kentucky Derby, Britney Spears, laundry apps and moar!
Sober in the City: 20 Summer Mocktail Recipes to Try Now
“With summer here, I do not have to forgo the act of social drinking. But, I can forgo the hangover, the shame, the guilt, and the regret. Here are 20 summer mocktail recipes to try now, sober or not.”
4 Things Your Journal Has in Common With “Orange is the New Black”
Would this be an appropriate time to mention that I’ve never watched the show?
Ubisoft Can’t Have Female Characters Because “Women Are Too Difficult To Animate;” One Million Eyes Are Rolled
Although the E3 convention has brought us some great news about women in video games, Ubisoft is stealing the show with it’s steadfast reluctance to include women in it’s games.
If You Were My Boo: 28 Things We’d Do On a Date With Samira Wiley
“13. I’d tell her that I always wished I had an Easy Bake Oven and she’d tell me she conveniently still had her Easy Bake Oven and we’d see all the different adult cuisines we could make from it.”
Kids Detained in AZ Provides Window Into Totally F*cked US Immigration System
The issue of immigrant children being detained in immigrant detention centers is not exactly a new story. But this past week, an influx of children from Central America who were detained while trying to cross into the U.S. has drawn new attention to the extreme and inhuman treatment undocumented immigrants face from U.S. Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Also.Also.Also. Legos and Love Reign Supreme and Other Stories We Missed This Week
Lego is building female scientists, tension at the Supreme Court is building up, and organizers are working to build a more equal future.
Orphan Black Episode 208 Recap: “Variable and Full of Perturbation”
They’re not gonna kill off Cosima, right? I swear to Jeebus, if they Chaiken Cosima I’m gonna be so pissed.
Comedy Crush: Sujata Day, Writer, Actress, App Lover
“I am pro-friend dating because I’m 99% sure that’s the only kind of date I go on.”
Laverne Cox Returns to “Katie”, Shows How to Do a “Teachable Moment” Right
“A part of me thought about making this article just be a list of Laverne Cox quotes from this interview because she says that many brilliant things. Where Cox was able to turn the conversation around and get in some great talking points last time, this time she was given free reign to talk about important issues for a full half hour.”
Faking It Episode 108 Recap: I Know You Felt What I Felt
Welcome to the season finale of “Faking It,” in which a lot of things happen that I can’t really talk about, you’ll just have to read the recap.
Trans Woman Held Captive In Horrific Louisiana Human Trafficking Case
Louisiana police are reporting that in an unbelievably extreme and horrifying act of violence, three people in Natchitoches Parish spent years holding a trans woman hostage and enslaving her, as well as torturing and sexually assaulting her.
Beyond Definition: On Queer Black Love and My Kaleidoscope Identity
“My queerness was exactly the durable and malleable fabric that brought me here to this love. I am so grateful to finally have this powerful Black revolutionary in my life, I am thrilled about the quickly manifesting potential of our combined energy that nurtures creativity both for ourselves, our kin and our community.”
You Should Go: Autostraddlers Are Meetin’ All Over The World for Pride!
Now, I come bearing the ultimate gift: a selflessly and tirelessly compiled list of future Autostraddle Pride meet-ups that has all the information you’ll need to hop on this crazy train of life and ride it right into Hangin’ Out With Cool Strangers Or Maybe Event Old Friends station.
Joana Estrela Takes Us To Pride in Lithuania in her comic “Propaganda”
If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to help organize Pride events in one of Europe’s most homophobic countries, or if you love reading journal-style comics about queer women, make sure you check out “Propaganda.”