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Drawn to Comics: Lumberjanes’ Penultimate Issue! (Just For the First Storyline)

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This dynamically dramatic, intensely informative and extremely exciting penultimate issue in the first storyline of Lumberjanesis an absolute must-read! I know we’ve all been waiting for some answers, waiting for some closure, and well, this week we’ve got it! I asked, “what’s up with Diane” and this week we find out! I asked “what’s up with Jo” and these week we find out! I asked…

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Gloria Casarez, Organizer, Activist and Total Badass, Dies at 42

Gloria Casarez passed away on Sunday, October 19th, after living with cancer for five years. She was 42, a Philadelphia native, and a longtime activist and organizer in Philly’s LGBT and Latin@ communities. Casarez fought tirelessly for her communities, acting as a mentor, galvanizer and leader.
Casarez rallies the 2012 Dyke March.
Casarez wore many “hats” in her life as an organizer: Director of…

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Got autostraddle unblocked at work! Woo! Now I can go back to reading articles about Kate Moennig and Evan Rachel Wood Bisexual on the clock…

Sleater-Kinney Look Back, Move Forward with Remastered Box Set and New Album

I thought this week couldn’t get any better. We already knew that tomorrow would see the release of Sleater-Kinney’s 7XLP box set of all their albums plus a 44 page hardcover book. Now we also know that the trio of Corin Tucker, Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss, who have been on indefinite hiatus since 2006, will release a new album, No Cities to Love, on Jan. 20 on Sub Pop and go on a 13 date…

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The A+ Bee Issue 6: Come See About Bee

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Welcome to the sixth edition of the A+ Bee! Thank you for reading and sharing and commenting and contributing. It means the world to us.
Next issue is our special edition Halloween Bee! In preparation, we’d like to formally invite you to a costume party IN THE COMMENTS SECTION! Just post a photo of yourself in your costume (at any age!) in the comments of the post, and…

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Top 10 Black Sitcoms From the ‘90s: Remember When There Were More Than Two

Top 10 Black Sitcoms From the ’90s: Remember When There Were More Than Two

The other day I was thinking about all of the black comedies that were on television when I was growing up. To some extent, The WB was built on the backs of these shows. The only line-ups that could contend with NBC’s Must See TV was over on FOX with Living Single, Martin, and New York Undercover. Even TGIF’s block had a black show (Hanging with Mr. Cooper) sidled up to Full House and Step by Step

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Family Photo Album: What We Were for Halloween Way Back When

It’s almost Halloween! Do you know where your embarrassing childhood photos from Octobers past are? I sure hope so, ’cause after I show you ours it’s only fair for you to show us yours, y’know? I present to you, without any further ado, the Autostraddle staff you know and love way back when they weren’t yet too old to trick-or-treat. (No judgment if you still do.)
Founder and CEO Riese was a…

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40 Recipes For All Your Mermaid Rainbow Aesthetic Needs

Hello and welcome to this thing we’re doing where we help you figure out what you’re gonna put in your mouth this week. Some of these are recipes we’ve tried, some of these are recipes we’re looking forward to trying, all of them are fucking delicious. Tell us what you want to put in your piehole or suggest your own recipes, and we’ll talk about which things we made, which things we loved, and…

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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Likes It Rough

Welcome to NSFW Sunday!
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+ Rough sex is “back,” as if it ever went anywhere:
“One would think that, considering that more and more people of age have grown up with insta-access to a variety of kinky porn, an admission of rough sex wouldn’t be a big to-do. Yet apparently it is. One of Knox’s disparagers commented, ‘So being choked, spit on, and…

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Kristen Stewart’s Marrying the Feminist Movement in a Pile of Leaves this Sunday Funday

Good morning, starshine! The great big gay Earth says hello.
Kristen Stewart Loves Feminism, Hates the People You Hate
Kristen Stewart doesn’t understand why so many women in Hollywood have disavowed feminism, probably because she understands what feminism actually is.
That’s such a strange thing to say, isn’t it? Like, what do you mean? Do you not believe in equality for men and women?……

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If You Like This, Then You’ll Like That: Queer Your Tech’s Epic 100th Post

My queermos! Queer Your Tech with Fun is turning 100! Well, 100 posts that is. So I thought we’d take a look back at some of our big hits from the past 100 app roundups and tech musings so we could point you in the direction of some new apps, some updated apps and some cool shit in general. I’m not going to pick something from all 100 posts, because that would be insane. But that doesn’t mean…

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