20 Simple Survival Tips For The Pretty Little Liars
This handy survival guide was compiled by Riese and Heather.
We’re like ten years and zero winters in to the saga of the Pretty Little Liars, and despite enduring physical and psychological torture to the max every week, these girls still spend most of their time creeping around in the dark by themselves. It is time for someone to sit them down and talk to them about their indefensibly dumb…
Brittani’s Team Pick: Watch the Mo’ne Davis Documentary, “Throw Like a Girl”
Brittani’s Team Pick: Following an appearance in the Little League World Series, 13-year-old Mo'ne Davis and her 70 mph fastball remain in the spotlight as baseball’s latest phenomenon.
So I got a tattoo yesterday, check it out tumblr space. Its more of a commemorative tattoo for a life changing event that was A-Camp, than a hunger games tribute. Mockingjay was the cabin, green in the arrow is for our team color, and if you notice the arrow is snapped in half…. I wonder why… (Also I know its a little weird putting a hunger games tattoo on my body that has nothing to do with the books but all of my tattoos are from books/TV shows anyway, so whatever)
Lambda Legal Takes Up Fight For Lesbian Widow’s Same-Sex Social Security Benefits
Kathy Murphy has spent the two years since her wife died of cancer fighting to simply access the same rights as widowers and widows mourning the loss of an opposite-sex spouse. Now, she’s got Lambda Legal on her side. The prominent LGBT rights organization filed a suit this week against the Social Secrurity Administration to secure its benefits for same-sex couples.
Though the overturn of DOMA in…
As a Bronx-born Puerto Rican, I never know exactly where I fit in most discussions about racism in the United States. I’m not white. I’m not Black. I’m in between but I know for a fact that if white power structures decided to round up all the minorities, I’d be with all the blacks, browns, beiges, yellows, others. Still, where is my place in a conversation whose roots are so connected to slavery in the United States? Our industry and economy in this country are all based on wealth garnered from that slave trade, so how dare I even open my mouth when my people didn’t even get here until the 1950s?
But Puerto Ricans are a people with a legacy that comes from the slavery, rape of its indigenous people and their resources by the Spanish, whose efforts are kept up by the United States government… so there is no reason to keep my mouth, there is no reason to not hear my sisters. At times, we share the same scream.
Halloween Grab Bag: Inspiration, DIYs, Costumes and Other Scary Sh*t
LISTEN UP GHOSTBUSTERS, you only have one week of Halloween excitement left before it’s all over and the world forces you to move on to Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Year’s Eve! You’re gonna be a sad, sad hamster if you don’t wring every last drop of spooky goodness out of the next few days. So I’m here to help because I love you. I’ve collected a grip of movie lists, costume ideas,…
When I express my ideas in classrooms full of white students, I am saying that no matter the institutional blockers that have been put in place to hold my people back, my voice will be heard. When I walk through the doors of a church, I am saying that no matter what you feel about homosexuality, I will not allow you to block my right to worship. It’s a dangerous and unforgiving job, though. I hope that when my children arrive this is not what they must put up with in order to be viewed as a human being.
Brittani’s Video Party: Marcel the Shell is Seriously Distracted by Faking It
Header by Rory Midhani
There’s a new Marcel the Shell with Shoes On video which I’m sure is to help push the book, “The Most Surprised I’ve Ever Been.” Marcel is voiced by Jenny Slate and if you don’t love her, you’re not welcome here. I have a feeling Marcel and Tiny Pineapple would get along really well and I look forward to a crossover episode.
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Ooh, a name-check from the mothership in this month’s Autostraddle Insider! I guess this means I should do some kind of an update…but the truth is that for some time now, I have been seeing distinctly non-weird ads, and some that even seem directly marketed at the lady-loving community, e.g.:
I trust this situation will resolve itself in time, and we will once again be treated to innovative commercials promoting TV brackets, Filipina internet brides, and cures for male pattern baldness.
feature image via Mt Holyoke College
It’s not really a secret that the elite women’s colleges known as the Seven Sisters are bastions of queerness, or at least a specific brand of it. That makes it particularly disappointing that they remain so woefully behind the times when it comes to transgender acceptance. Of the five schools that still have not gone co-ed, only Mount Holyokehas adopted…
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: Or How I Divorced Jesus and Learned to Love Sex
I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride;
I have gathered my myrrh along with my balsam.
I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey;
I have drunk my milk and my wine.
– Song of Solomon 5:1I married my husband when I was 12 years old on a muggy summer night in the church where I grew up. My family had chosen him for me. We’d been introduced. He liked animals, magic tricks, and talking circles…
Here Are 13 of the Insults Chris Kluwe Applied to Gamergaters
Feature image via noh8campaign.com
Gamergate has brought into sharp focus the violently misogynistic underbelly of some parts of of nerd and gaming culture. Our own Laura wrote the best thing on the internet about it, but this righteously furious postby NFL star Chris Kluwe is pretty good too. Kluwe has been playing games for 26 years, and he believes Gamergate is bad for women, bad for…
We Need Help: Who Wants To Be My Intern
Hello Autostraddle! As you may have noticed, the human once known as Intern Grace is becoming a comic book star and therefore is unable to continue being my third arm / forever companion. So I need a new personal intern to fill the void in my heart and life Hopefully Autostraddle can also fill a void in your heart/life! It’s sort of like working at a gas station except also not really and only if…
