NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Sleeping In
Welcome to NSFW Sunday!
Feature image of Kate Upton photographed by Mario Testino for UK Vogue via les beehvie
via sidibeauty
+ At the Toast, Donna J. Drucker looks at what Masters of Sex got right and wrong about Virginia E. Johnson:
“Masters had the professional credentials, drive, and passion for discovery to move the sex research forward, but he had little of the friendliness and calming…
Have Your Gay Wedding At My Birthday Party This Sunday Funday
Hello, kale and spinach aficionados! Today’s a pretty momentous day for gay history, because 24 years ago today, I was born. That’s right.
IT’S MY BIRTHDAY, BITCHES!
Now that I’ve set the tone for our good gay news today, let’s dive right in to all this weekend has to offer queer people that is vaguely positive or fuzzy!
Meet The Most Committed Lesbians On EarthIn the face of a government…
Rejoice! Autostraddle’s blanket Motrin sponsorship deal appears to be over!
While the community-minded part of me is concerned that their potentially lucrative ad deal has run its course, the greater, overwhelmingly selfish part of me is ecstatic that we may once again be treated to a bevy of bizarre, bargain-basement banners.
Adsense has clearly spent the past couple of months sitting in a dark room thinking about what it’s doing with its life, because this first ad that I saw was perhaps the best-targetted I’ve ever seen on the site:
Extremely Ugly Lesbian Sandals*.
These things look like some kind of sports Birkenstocks, released in a limited edition shade of sex-toy-purple, specifically to appeal to the modern homoromantic lady.
*Equality disclaimer: sandals can also be worn by bisexuals, pansexuals and very sneaky straight girls that utilise their lesbionic vibes to reel in unsuspecting babydykes, rip their still-beating hearts from their chests, and devour them whole.
How To Ditch iTunes in 7 Easy Steps
Realize you hate iTunes. There are so many reasons to hate iTunes. Perhaps you have gotten pissed that it’s just damn slow. Maybe you’re peeved that it doesn’t monitor multiple folders or let you keep track of multiple collections and libraries very easily (fyi, you can have multiple iTunes libraries, it’s just not the smoothest). Or it’s the lack of support for FLAC.…
The Comment Awards Are Ready For Hillary (And The Weekend)
Hello kittencaboodles!
This week we got hyped for Hillary in 2016 (I mean, did you see the mason jars?!), learned how to make light up marquee and 26 delicious no-bake desserts.
In more news that will make you want to high five someone, the new Thor will be a woman, supermodel Andreja Pejic came out as a trans woman and it was announced that Portia de Rossi will be joining the cast of Scandal.
Al…
Barbie Doesn’t Earn Feminist Empowerment Badge for Becoming A Girl Scout
Mattel has an elaborate bullpen of “I Can Be” Barbie dolls dressed for careers as various as “Pet Vet” to “Fashion Designer” and, thanks to a new partnership between Mattel and Girl Scouts USA, Barbie has a new image, a new Girl Scout doll and a new tagline: “Barbie: Be Anything. Do Everything.” The partnership includes the creation of a new “For Girls” wing of the Girl Scouts USA websitethat…
No Man’s Land: The Limbo Of Florida’s Latest Court Ruling On Gay Marriage
In the wake of a Florida court’s decision to continue withholding equal rights for all its citizens, many were left feeling confused instead of angry. Over the past few years, absorbing these decisions from the news has yielded fairly polarized reactions: either yelling at the injustice or celebrating that we won a thing.
Welcome to Interviews With My Ex-Girlfriend Ex-One-Night Stand, in which Autostraddle writers get back in touch with their ex-girlfriends ex-one-night stands to ask them Five Simple Questions: (these questions are specific to one-night stands!) why did we end up sleeping together at all, did anything about our sexual encounter surprise you, what do you think the soundtrack to our sexual…
Wilder Hungers: Picnics and Homemade Herb Pasta
Hi Straddlers! I hope you are all enjoying the dog days of summer so far. I have been to known to complain about the heat this time of year, which is odd for a Floridian, I know. I swear it feels a million times hotter when you are surrounded by concrete and buildings with no lakes to jump into. One thing I’m not complaining about is all the time I have spent in my kitchen lately. The farmers’…
Cards Against Harassment Creator Better at Recognizing Sexism Than Institutional Racism
One brave Minnesotan, Lindsey, is doing the thing we have all wanted to do: giving catcallers a taste of their own bitter, shameful medicine. She does this by handing her street harassers clever little calling cards informing them of their transgression. Not only that, but she is secretly recording her interactions with them and putting them on the Internet. The whole wide web is now privy to the…
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: How Do You Prefer to Spice Up Your Life
image by rory midhani
Welcome to this week’s Friday Open Thread! A place for friendship. A place for photos. A place for gifs and stories about your date or not-date or work or week or cat/dog or life.
I haven’t hosted this internet party in a few months and, like Carmen last week, have just returned from visiting the place my girlfriend lives (Los Angeles) for two months to the place that I live…
Things I Read That I Love #137: We Don’t Do Dumb Things Like That To Start The Day
HELLO and welcome to the 137th installment of Things I Read That I Love, wherein I share with you some of the longer-form journalism/essays I’ve read recently so that you can read them too and we can all know more about reparations! This “column” is less feminist/queer focused than the rest of the site because when something is feminist/queer focused, I put it on the rest of the site. Here is…
San-Diego Comic Con Uses Minor Policy Changes Against Sexual Harassment: It’s Super Ineffective
feature image via shutterstock
This week was Batman’s 75th anniversary, and a local comics shop in my area celebrated by hosting a Batman Dance Party. There was cheap beer, great music (save for playing “Blurred Lines” at the beginning of the party), and more than 250 people dressed up as Batman, with a few popular villains mixed in. I dressed up as Black Widow, because, let’s face it, Batman…
In a time when both Marvel and DC seem to refuse to make movies starring female superheroes, it was announced today that the Soska Sisters will be directing a Painkiller Jane movie. This means that not only is there going to be a comic book superhero movie starring a woman, but that movie will be directed by two women and the character that the movie is about is a bisexual woman.
Painkiller Jane…
