My guide to shopping for plus size jeans is on Autostraddle.com. I use the wise input of my friend Leslie Medlik from TLC’s Big Sexy who knows a lot about jeans styling and trends. The season finale is tonight at 10PM!
mapping european stereotypes
Are you in Los Angeles this Saturday? Come out to The Real L Word charity basketball game for Vote for Equality’s efforts to defend The FAIR Education Act!
My father got sick when I was 22… and I was poor. And my father had an ulcer, and it exploded, and, you know, all these toxins get in your blood - and basically, my father died 50 days after his ulcer. So I had a father get sick while I was poor.
My mother got sick while I was rich. I don’t really wanna get into to it, but my mother was sicker than my father, okay? And my mother’s alive. My mother’s fine, okay?
I remember going to the hospital to see my mother and wondering, was I in the right place? Like, this is a hotel! Like, it had a concierge, man! …If the average person really knew the discrepancy in the healthcare system, there’d be riots in the streets, okay? They would burn this motherfucker down.
Chris Rock, responding to host Bill Maher asking if he ever went to the emergency room as his primary healthcare provider, on Real Time (via butchrag, inothernews) (via malloreigh)
glee? recap? thoughts? anything?
NO NOTHING NOTHING AT ALL I’VE JUST BEEN SITTING HERE ALL DAY STARING AT MY TOES
yes, the screencaps just got finished an hour ago
and i’ve been writing it as much as i can so it should be done tomorrow some time.
we make them special
it’d take less time if i just wrote a short thing that sucked w/no pictures
but you deserve better, anonymous
and you know it
I was drunk a lot that fall. I was wandering the same street weekend after weekend hoping to run into this girl because I was just so sad and crazy. And it all culminated in this one night, my friend’s birthday, where I could practically hear “Sometime Around Midnight” playing in my head, and I was drunk and infatuated and the world was falling around me and all I could think was “you just have to see her, you know that she’ll break you in two.”
do you ever read articles about The Myth of the Female Orgasm? Can we get some lesbians to work on the science of female orgasms? Cause, um, there ain’t no myth here.
i feel like i work on the science of female orgasms regularly
THROWBACK –> Autostraddle Does the 2009 NewNowNext Awards: A;ex & Riese on the Red Carpet! (by marielyn176)
Who Wants To Be Rachel’s Intern?!!!
The crisp autumn air and really cheap notebooks of back-to-school sales are upon us, and Intern Julia has been released into the wild to pursue her education/life. This means that Rachel needs a new intern! Here are some thoughts/feelings on what she would like that intern to be like.
+ You have a lot of free time. Ideally you are stationed inside a lighthouse or a research facility in Antarctica where you have nothing to do besides sit in front of a computer with internet access 12-14 hours a day having demands gchatted at you.
+ You have at least some experience with Wordpress, especially formatting of images. At least basic HTML would be super useful. Do you have/know how to use Photoshop? FOUR FOR YOU.
+ You are Good At The Internet. If someone wonders idly “Who wrote that one longform essay from like 2009, the one comparing Thoreau’s essays to being a park ranger in rural Alaska?” you know the author’s name and where they went to high school in under 5 minutes.
+ You are good at proofreading for typos/broken links/things that sound stupid/facts that need to be checked.
+ You are independent, self-driven and can work proactively even with minimal supervision.
+ You feel you can commit to at least 10 hours a week of the activities implied above for the foreseeable future, and are confident that you will be able to continue working in that capacity without nervous breakdowns, sudden trips to a developing nation to find yourself, dropping out of school, eloping, or otherwise punking out.
If you feel that these abovementioned things describe you, that’s just super. Please email rachel [at] autostraddle [dot] com with the subject line Intern Application and tell her these things:
+ Who are you? What are you? What’s your deal?
+ Why do you want to do this? Fame? Fortune? (Don’t say fortune.)
+ What makes you think you would be good at doing this? If a resume and/or writing sample would be helpful in explaining this, feel free to include them. If you can think of a different/better way of proving your aptitude, that’s good too!
+ What’s your availability? Mornings? Afternoons? Weekdays? Except for Rastafarian holidays? Be specific!
+ Three (3) story ideas/articles that you think would be neat to see on Autostraddle, created either by you or by another, possibly hypothetical human.
That’s it! Applications will be accepted now through Oct. 1 to rachel at autostraddle dot com and everyone will receive a response by Oct. 7. Thank you and goodnight!
You can either make your own coffee seven days a week, or you can teach your kids how to do it for you.
what do you think about tasmania?
i think the people of tasmania are champs for voting in support of marriage equality today.
This summer, I lost twenty pounds. I did it the old fashioned way: diet and exercise. I acquired a running and yoga habit. I really never thought I’d be excited about getting up at 6 am and running a few miles four times a week, but I am. I’ve been counting calories, making better choices,...
Laneia, advice? please? I’m having feelings I shouldn’t have for my best friend and I think they are mutual. And I’m confused because he is my best friend! he is a boy! oh he smells soo good, Laneia! he is my sister’s ex! brain faintly yells “bad idea!”
it probably is a bad idea, as most ideas are bad ideas, but if there was ever a time to make bad decisions, i feel like it’s when you’re young / autumn.