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Life Partners is About a Lesbian, Not a Man on AutostraddleThis is a review for the movie, Life Partners, a film in which everything that could go usually wrong in a lesbian film inexplicably doesn’t! I know you probably read the longline (Two codependent best friends — one straight girl, one lesbian — and the man who comes between them.) and wanted to shoot yourself, but don’t! This movie isn’t about the man at all! The lesbian isn’t harboring an unhealthy crush on her straight best friend! NO ONE DIES! Am I blowing your mind? It sucks that our bar for “gay” movies is so low that those things alone makes a movie worth seeing but this movie goes beyond that and is fun and enjoyable! It’s a new day, maybe! Exclamation point!
Fool’s Journey: What Do Tarot Readers Do All Day? on Autostraddle!So now, after the wake up, jerk off, pee, tea, smoothie, shower, clothes, eyeliner morning routine, I sit and pray by my altar. I acknowledge the four directions plus the sacred black of the stars, the sacred brown of the ground and center. I pray for myself first, because as my friend and fellow Babe of Healing Justice, Marcelo Garza Montalvo, once said, “I have to pray for myself before I can pray for anyone else.” I hang out with my ancestors, think about them, stare into the images of the ones I have, and feed them- give them some whiskey, fresh water or flowers I picked from someone’s front yard.
Jury Duty For (Anti-Racist) Dummies on AutostraddleThis is not a manual on how to turn the system on its head. One is not always going to run into a situation where jury nullification is possible, necessary, or reasonable. Most importantly, we just want more people like us on juries: people who are skeptical of the efficacy of prisons and who see racism as a living, breathing problem.
As a Canadian, I’ve never seen American Thanksgiving before, but this year I will, and it will be at my girlfriend’s parents’ house in northern Arizona where they have woods and bears and guns and Republicans, which isn’t terrifying at all. We have to drive for what should be seven hours but will probably be eleven, and though we will probably be binge-listening to Serial, I hear it will eat exactly one mile of road trying to get out of Los Angeles at rush hour, and so music is so important.
Renee Montoya, Queen of Lesbian Comic Book Characters, returns as The Question in a mini-series by Greg Rucka, the GLAAD Award-winning writer behind Batwoman: Elegy!
MO Governor Jay Nixon Enacts Preemptive State of Emergency, Activates National GuardOn the ground, people are coming out in droves to peacefully protest what many see as the epitome of American infrastructural racism. On Sunday, protestors laid down inside chalk drawings outlining their bodies to recognize 100 days since the death of Michael Brown, with one protestor stating, “We just wanted them to know that it doesn’t matter if the weather is bad, good, ugly. We’ll be out here because this means that much to us.”
Considering all of the broken promises made during the initial response to the shooting, it’s no wonder protestors and residents alike might be panicked and afraid that their growing movement will be met with rubber bullets and tear gas if Darren Wilson is not indicted. This preemptive state of emergency not only highlights the distrust between the mostly-white leadership of Ferguson and the mostly-Black population, but serves to heighten the tension and potential for violence.
dELiA*s isn’t long for this world, so Riese unearthed one of their catalogs from the ‘90s, marked up my her friend like a regular old Regina George, to share with you.
What you need to get you through the week is a look back at all six seasons of The L Word, retold to you by puppies and kittens.
Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Lesbian, Activist, Author, and Revolutionary Dies at 65Feinberg’s written work is widely known. Her groundbreaking 1993 novel, Stone Butch Blues, broke open the discussion about the complexity and fluidity of gender. Over twenty years later, it is still a book many of us keep on our shelves. For many baby butches and transgender bois and genderqueer lesbians, this is the book that was dogeared and read and reread.
53 Recipes For Your Gluten-Free Thanksgiving
53 Recipes For Your Gluten-Free Thanksgiving
This is my first year cooking my very own Thanksgiving, instead of being assigned a simple hard-to-mess-up dish by my family. The lady and I will be basting our own turkey, mashing our own potatoes, and baking our own pumpkin pie, a simultaneously exciting and terrifying ordeal. The added challenge is that Aim and her friends are either wheat intolerant or coeliac, and a lot of the holiday…