Things I Read That I Love #145: It’s Gradual and Sad, or Wild and Thrashing
Topics include love, full-figured fashion, depression & sobriety, rape of men in the military, debtor’s prison and more!
For a myriad of reasons, we all somehow ended up clicking over to this very special place called Autostraddle Dot Com at some pivotal point in our queermo lives, and now we’re all still here making it happen! In this roundtable, our editors and writers share their “root” — the posts that brought them here for the first time.
Playlist: The Worst Sex Playlist Of All Time
As you’ve maybe figured out by now, sex is sort of hilarious. You’re both naked with all your meat and cheese out there in the open air, you’re rolling around pawing at each other like animals on a bed or smashed into a bar bathroom or precariously threatening the composure of your sofa cushions. You’re sweating, sticking your fingers and/or brightly colored toys into each other’s holes, your hair is fucked up, liquid is pouring out of you — it’s quite a scene, really. IT’S HILARIOUS.
Thai teen drama ‘Hormones’ features lesbian couple
I got sucked into the rabbit hole that is Thai teen dramas. It began with the second season of the popular TV series, Hormones featuring a lesbian couple and from there it just got more gay.
TV In The Time of Patriarchy Traffics In Ageless Women, Age-Old Stereotypes
San Diego State’s Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film has released its 17th annual “Boxed In” study tracking women’s representation and employment in prime-time television. Results were much as you’d expect given the patriarchy in full force all around us: women are underrepresented working behind the scenes, so women are also underrepresented on screen. And a lot of the representations that are shown are stereotyped, single-dimensional supporting roles — you know, exactly the way the patriarchy conditions all of us (but especially men) to view women.
Lez Liberty Lit #55: Reading Slowly, Reading Well
Feature image by Juliette Tang.
Sexy poetry, slow reading, an independent bookstore road trip, new old classic YA and more.
5 DIY Wellness Recipes for Your Next Sick Day
Feature Image via usesofherbs.com
I’m writing to you from bed. I’d planned on my third Homosteading piece to be about veggie gardens, or creating your own compost pile, but I’ve been unable to make it outside much this week. Somehow, in between training for a new job, planting kale and amaranth for my winter garden, and wrapping up the final touches on a recent project, I managed to catch myself an extremely unpleasant strain of strep throat.
Dear Queer Diary: So Long, Farewell
There’s something strange about ending a journal. For weeks, months, maybe even years, you’re writing — making lists and sketching kittens and recording quotations and keeping track of school and work and friendships and loves and then suddenly, you turn a page and there’s only a few lines left.
We’ve got your adult coloring books and your black women in superhero comics and your interviews with authors and your former sluts talking to their daughters about sex and your feminist moments of scifi history. Also, we learned how to delete our Netflix viewing history.
Gin: some people like it, but a lot of people really don’t like it. According to our annual Autostraddle Reader survey, only 3% of you folks cited gin as your primary alcoholic beverage of choice, making it second-to-last amongst preferred alcohols (Tequila came in with 2%). Somehow, the topic of gin came up in our Office E-Mail Reply-All the other day, and it turns out that people have VERY strong opinions about gin. Maybe you do too! Here’s ours.
Rebel Girls: Defining Privilege, Oppression, and Everything In Between
One of the most amazing parts of a women’s studies education is the opportunity to put names to problems. The phenomena of women struggling with “the problem that had no name” is one that persists, even today: we experience discrimination, harassment, inequality, disempowerment, and oppression, but we struggle to define it, label it, or successfully articulate why it was wrong without the vocabulary to do so. As I’m sure you’ve learned from Tumblr, one of the most integral pieces of that vocabulary is the juggernaut: “privilege.” It’s common now, when we spot inequities, to label the unfortunate consequences points of “oppression,” and we’re very quick to assume the root cause of those inequities is, thus, a form of “privilege.” But sometimes it’s a little more complicated than that. There’s a universe in between and a lot of components that make privilege and oppression real things, and it’s fundamental to understand them.
Horrifying 80% of Central American Women Sexually Assaulted While Coming to US
Fusion TV recently reported that 80% of Central American women and girls crossing the Mexican border to come to the United Stated are raped. This statistic is based on the reports of migrant shelter directors, though it is possible the number is even higher due to underreporting.
Rejoice! We’ve Got A New T-Shirt and All Hoodies Are On Sale!
There’s some new stuff that you’re gonna love and some of the older stuff that you love is on sale! Happy day!
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Rejoice! We’ve Got A New T-Shirt and All Hoodies Are On Sale!
There’s some new stuff that you’re gonna love and some of the older stuff that you love is on sale! Happy day!
Misandry Shirt: $25You like to adorn your hot hot bod with attractive, soft and comfy things. You also probably like misandry. And now there’s a way to enjoy both at the same time.
