My dear queer diarists, this week it is my pleasure to introduce you to another notebook-toting celebrity with a pen in her hand and brilliance in her brain. Prepare yourselves.
AbbieThis week’s journaling genius is none other than Abbie, an outrageously lovely person from the city of Nashville, Tennessee. When Abbie is not journaling, she does communications and administrative work at a…
Michfest Could Change Its Trans Female Exclusionary Intention Only If It Tried, Only If It Wanted To
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Who cares, right? Some stupid festival. Except this thing happens where I meet somebody who seems like a cool queer, talk to them for a while, find out eventually that they go to Michfest, and end up realizing: I cannot trust anyone. Nobody has to be accountable to trans women about this shit anywhere, ever. It is this insidious thing that sneaks up on you every time…
Also.Also.Also: Your Link Roundup Gets a New Host and Here Are the Stories She Missed This Week
Hey, what do elephants have that nothing else has? That’s right BABY ELEPHANTS. Here are some of the stories we missed while I was saving this photo to my desktop!
Suguta, Kibo and Nchan playing at Tsavo National Park in Nairobi
Do This, Share This+ Black Girl Dangerous is putting together an Editor-In-Training program for queer and/or trans people of color! Submit your application by August 31,
National Poetry Slam 2014 Queerer Than All The Other Slams Forever
Good Evening Ladies and Gentleman and people who don’t subscribe to the gender binary. Today is August 5, 2014 and THIS is a poetry slam!
Such is the Slam Masters official spiel that began every night from August 5th to August 9th in Oakland, California during the 25th Annual National Poetry Slam. Over the course of five days, 72 teams — an estimated 500 poets — battled it out for the right to be…
Most Important Ugly: Massiel, Coco and Meta-Human Experiments
The next installment of Most Important Ugly photographs are now live on autostraddle.com. Go read the stories behind these photographs HERE
Massiel Cedeño, 2013
Coco Layne, 2013
Photo: Tayler Smith
Makeup: Arabelle Sicardi
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In the world of 50 Shades, I — a queer Domme — am unthinkable.
And although it may seem obvious, the fact that it’s indescribably difficult for women to get money to write words for other women (and therefore make money doing so, it takes money to make money, etc) is bad for the industry of women’s media as a whole. It hurts content, it hurts women editors, it hurts women publishers, it hurts women writers and it hurts women readers by giving them something much less amazing than they could be getting.
When We Talk Reproductive Justice, We Need to Talk About Surrogate Parents
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Surrogacy affords many people an alternative way to bring a child into the world. Whether a person is infertile or cannot deliver a baby without medical risk, or a couple is biologically unable to reproduce together without medical intervention — as may be the case for some queer couples — surrogacy enables a person with a uterus to carry a child on behalf of the…
You Need Brunch Help: So You’re The Only Vegan At Brunch
Hold onto your eggs, we’re getting ready for Autostraddle’s International Brunch Weekend 8/23-24! Find a brunch meetup in your city or create your own by heading over to our events page. You can also load up on all things brunch by watching this space. From playlists to recommendations to personal essays, we’re writing all about the brunch experience. Get excited! BRUNCH.
“So if you’re vegan……
Fool’s Journey: Four Elements, Four Suits
One way to develop your understanding of the tarot is to look at how the four elements — earth, air, fire and water — play out in the cards. You’ll see symbols of these four elements popping up all over the place in many tarot decks, and learning to spot these visual clues can really help you to understand the nuances of a card’s meaning, and develop your own interpretations too.
To me, earth,…
Nothing Is Off Limits: How Queer Brunch Raised This Queer Feminist Fagette
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At 16 I was a rage-filled, loud-mouthed, angry queer feminist. I was over the butch-femme dynamic in the lesbian community, and the casual misogyny I found among gay men was no longer a thing I was willing to overlook. I felt as if I had no real place in the LGBTQ community at a time when I needed a community more than ever. I was always being told I was a little…
by riese & rachel
What is Vice co-founder and current Thought Catalog thinker Gavin McInnes‘s deal? Is he just a shock jock? Traffic bait? A literal pile of garbage and obvious clickbait zipped into a human suit? Are his pieces meant to be satirical and if so, to what end and why are they so bad at being satire? Is his actual role at Thought Catalog “Troller-in-Chief?” Why did he write this…
When Misogynistic Trolls Attack: Why Jezebel’s Gawker Call-Out Is Important
With a small number of exceptions, the rage-inducing comments sections of the web come with the territory of being online at all. However, as Jezebel reported yesterday, someone has taken trolling to a new level of viciousness: “For months, an individual or individuals has been using anonymous, untraceable burner accounts to post gifs of violent pornography in the discussion section of stories on…
50 Shades of Non-consent: Editing BDSM Erotica as a Queer Top
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“Just let me take care of you,” the hero whispers, choking back a growl as he pushes the heroine down face first on the bed.
“You are what we call a natural sub,” he says, tracing the paddle across her ass. “Are you ready to submit for my pleasure?”
The heroine nods her head shyly, her cheeks apple-bright. “Yes,” she says, “I want to belong only to you.”
Brunch for Beginners: 4.5 Steps To Brunching Like A Pro
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Hold onto your eggs, we’re getting ready for Autostraddle’s International Brunch Weekend 8/23-24! Find a brunch meetup in your city or create your own by heading over to our events page. You can also load up on all things brunch by watching this space. From playlists to recommendations to personal essays, we’re writing all about the brunch experience. Get excited!…
