“I just aim to perform female characters with dignity and intelligence — which is an obvious choice to me, but perhaps not so familiar in the entertainment industry.”

This week on NSFW Sunday: interpreting human sexuality, modernist pickup lines, the lesbian sex scene in “Blue is the Warmest Color” and more.

The East Coast’s largest anime convention had everything an anime fan could want, including some interesting conversations about representation of women in anime.

Because this is the way that we live…again.

Ever wanted to see someone who’s been in the state penitentiary system call bullshit on the politicians messing with said system? Yeah. That happened.

The CW, a station most famous for Tyra Banks, The Winchester Brothers and Teen Vampire Romance is currently developing a new drama that will focus on a transgender teenager’s life.

Laverne Cox talks about trans* representation in media, relating to her character and what it’s like being a trans* actress in tv.

Jeremy Yoder and Allison Matthies gathered data in a nationwide survey of sexual diversity in science, technology, engineering and math professions called Queer in Stem and answered some questions about their results.

La Virgen de Guadalupe has always been dear in my heart and always will be, but the way I view her has changed throughout the years, through various lenses with different interpretations, including now as a queer woman.

Paper mache’d wombs and emasculation stations are great and all, but what if there were a haunted house that was just filled with a fuckton of things lesbians are terrified of?

“But much like masturbation and other “personal relaxation” methods, it’s pretty obvious that most women are smoking marijuana, but not talking about it. There is a cloud of shame permeating these issues for women, where there is absolutely none for men.”

“Okay, I had a fangirl moment once George Takei appeared on screen.”

There is now data that suggests viewers are more likely to watch shows with racially diverse casts and writing staffs. Imagine that.

“I think the biggest thing for me is the plug-in to this amazing trans* and queer community that’s out there that’s been doing this work that’s, I think, at a point where it’s really ready to take the lead from people who live in many multiplicities.”

I am not crazy; I am simply black, and queer, and butch, and transcultural, and therefore alone.

The great tides of fashion are ahead! Come scope the massive styles (and cute bois and grrls) under the sea in Atlantis 2050: Marimacho’s Spring/Summer 2014 New York Fashion Week debut!

Okay, the most important thing you need to know is that there’s a bedazzled plush vagina costume in the first two minutes of Who’s Afraid of Vagina Wolf?.

Everyone loves Autostraddle, except a bunch of icky Republicans. Also, India.Arie wants you to do you and Malala outsmarted Obama.

What’s far too often missing from the narratives of global activism is the nuances of local contexts and agency of “oppressed” people, who don’t simply sit around waiting to be saved. Here’s where the ASC comes in.

“Oh, wait, so you’re not dressing in a mass-produced stereotypical ‘Native’ costume, and instead were just dressing as one of the most racist caricatures depicting an Indigenous person in the history of American cinema?”