The Comment Awards Are Having An A+ Week
Ice cream plus fireworks plus Riese’s mom
Friday Open Thread: This Is Your Captain Speaking
This is a special edition of the Friday Open Thread with a lot more cooks in the kitchen; instead of being hosted by one Autostraddle staffer, this week the open thread is being hosted by Riese, Laneia, Yvonne, Alex, Rachel and Grace, who are all in the same damn place for their annual planning retreat and summit. And now you’re here too! WE ARE SO EXCITED.
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue One, July 2014
Welcome to the first ever Autostraddle Insider, one of many perks available to Autostraddle Plus members!
Things I Read That I Love #135: Too South To Be North and Too North To Be South
Topics include sex work in Rio, a polyamory conference, a men’s rights conference, Adam Levine, the two Baltimores, student debt and moar!
The Future Is Here: Join Autostraddle Plus
Introducing Autostraddle Plus, our premium membership program!
Seriously Though Laverne Cox is Having the Best Week of All Time
How do you top being on the cover of “Time?” Well, if you’re Laverne Cox, you star in a music video, announce a new acting role, land another magazine cover and get an Emmy nomination.
Wilder Hungers: Okra Hoecakes with Coconutty Collard Greens and Central Florida
In which we do 4th of July, Florida style.
Playlist: Songs I Heard At Waffle House
Hymns for a 3 a.m. waffle brunch situation
It’s Time for White Feminists to Stop Talking About Solidarity and Start Acting
“When will white feminists take collective responsibility for educating themselves? When will they understand the power at play that sings in their skins? We don’t exist in a vacuum and women of colour don’t exist to hold their hands and explain in painful detail why their behaviour continues to hurt us. Intersectional feminist politics are not for white women to co-opt as their own.”
Laverne Cox First-Ever Trans Emmy Nominee, Tops Queer-Inclusive List, Continues World Takeover
So many LGBT Emmy nominees, most importantly Laverne Cox!
Lez Liberty Lit #50: Summer Reading Lists
The Miseducation of Cameron Post’s removal from a summer reading list, literary books coming out this fall, trigger warnings, marginalizing women’s writing and more.
Dear Queer Diary: Summer Re-Reading
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
New Law Makes it Easier for Trans Californians to Change Their IDs; Trans West Virginians Not So Lucky
Wile a new California law is making getting correct IDs easier for trans people, trans women in West Virginia are being harassed for trying to do just that.
Post Hobby Lobby, Religious Leaders Ask For Right To Discriminate Against Queers
Religious leaders have their eye on broad exemptions from a pending executive order to block employment discrimination by federal contractors against LGBT people.
Orange is the New Black 204: Let’s Talk About Lorna “Holy Sh*t” Morello
I think Poussey could say she’s invented the toilet brush and y’all would buy yourselves at least six toilet brushes, you would have a room in your house just for toilet brushes.
Rebel Girls: Your Handy-Dandy Map to the Feminist Movement
Just like you and I contain multitudes, so does the movement which advocates for women’s empowerment and equality.
Megan Rapinoe Naked: Pinoe Takes It Off, Shares Thoughts & Feelings For ESPN’s Body Issue
MEGAN RAPINOE IS NOT WEARING ANY CLOTHES. I REPEAT, NO CLOTHES AT ALL.
Making It Out Alive: Theodora and the Lesbians of Horror
“After a while though we stopped thinking we were just reading this film with a gay lens (like I can’t help but do with Kiki’s Delivery Service) and actually looked it up online — where all the facts come from — and there it was. Theo is a lesbian.”
Also.Also.Also. Rachel Maddow Should be the First Gay President and Other Stories We Missed This Week
Famous people are saying smart things about Hobby Lobby, anti-discrimination legislation isn’t as effective as it should be, and the kids of LGBT parents are all right.
Beaches Over Bars: I Skipped NYC Pride and Found Something Else To Be Proud Of
“I used to go to The Pride March every year, starting at age fifteen. I don’t remember exactly how old I was when I started to become disillusioned with it, but I do remember why.”