Hello, firecrackers! This week my friends and I went to the Lincoln Memorial to see the Capitol Fourth fireworks and it was so pretty! Here’s the news we missed while I was drowning in a sea of DC tourists.
We Still Need to Care About Hobby Lobby+ There are few things I love more than puns and feminism, and Cyndi Lauper’s article “Girls Just Want to Have Birth Control”covers both. Well, it’s…
Beaches Over Bars: I Skipped NYC Pride and Found Something Else To Be Proud Of
Queers on the beach
June in New York City signifies the beginning of many things: baking concrete, sweaty brows, strenuous subway walks, New Yorkers that somehow make the heat look effortless in their shorts and sundresses (I don’t understand you, but I APPRECIATE you), birthday season for all the tender Geminis and Cancers in your life (hey, what’s up) and, coinciding with the national…
Top Ten Ice Cream Bars You’d Run After A Truck To Put In Your Mouth
feature image via shutterstock.
Hey it’s summer and you know what that means, it’s time to shove ice cream in your mouth-hole! One time I heard the ice cream truck outside and I was like, can we have ice cream, and my fascist mother was like, no, and my Dad was like yeah sure go catch the truck and you can have ice cream, and I was like, ON IT and then, in my socks, I sprinted five blocks ’til I…
Sometimes sexiness or happiness are the best ways of forgetting dysphoria because you’re reminded, oh! I have a body that can do amazing things to another body, and oh! I have a body that can feel immense joy just from seeing a kitten!
Flirting with Danger: Dating Fails and ASD
I’ve always had trouble understanding social relationships. Cracking open the cover to the Lisa Frank unicorn journal from my childhood, I found evidence in the words of my eight-year-old self:
“This is the true story of … the day me and Philip the bad Parted (secretly). I wanted to marry him when I grew up — Until now. …I stepped Philip’s foot — by mistake. He Yelled an ear-deafing Yell and said…
Fresh Tomato Salad to Soothe your Summer Woes
Feature image via r. nial bradshaw
I think summer is mostly the worst: the heat, the sun all over the place everywhere, the vague sense that I somehow ought to be enjoying fun in said awful sun, but there is one thing even a dedicated summer-hater like me has to admit is pretty great and that’s tomatoes. It’s like summer’s way of saying “sorry it’s not Fall yet”. Sure, you can technically get…
Drawn to Comics Takes a Look at My Feminist Pull List!
by rory midhani
This week I thought I’d light a fire, pour out some drinks and get up close and personal. Every week I talk about some of the great comics I get to read, and many (maybe all?) of the webcomics that I talk about are ones that I read every week. But there’s another aspect to my comic fandom that I don’t talk about as much on here, and that’s my weekly pull list. For those of you who…
because call your girlfriend is on the latest lumberjanes playlist.
happy to add this to your dash today. you’re welcome.
20 Pictures Of Lesbian Sex According To Stock Photography
by riese & laneia
Stock photography: that underrated art form in which professionals create rights-free images suitable for usage by a variety of magazine and online publications. We love us some Shutterstock, we really truly do, especially lately as they’ve been beefing up their lesbian section with photos that look like actual lesbians living actual lives. But the Shutterstock archives are…
Most Important Ugly: Brandon, Tyler and Gendered Makeup
This week, I’ve decided to show you my dear friends Brandon and Tyler’s monsters; I think what I like about these two together are their genderfucking, the instant connection I have to them both on a very deep level because we see ourselves lost in someplace between genders and identities. Most of the time, it’s kind of fun to just chill there together, in non-binary babe existence, smiling into…
26 Recipes With Which to Blend Your Way to a Better Life
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 next week we’ll check in and talk about which things we made, which…
Surprise, Study Confirms Hiring Discrimination Against LGBT People Is Real
The Equal Rights Center has found — perhaps unsurprisingly, but nonetheless, depressingly — that people who indicate that they have worked for LGBT causes on their resumes are 23% less likely to land a job interview than people who don’t.
Only if you left your Autostraddle internship off your CV… via Shutterstock
The study sent resumes of nonexistent peopleto over 100 different openings at eight…
Anonymous Sex Toy Review: The Dominix PVC Flogger
AUTOSTRADDLE ANONYMOUS SEX TOY REVIEW 44:It’s our 44th Autostraddle Anonymous Sex Toy Review! Over the last few years, sex toy companies and stores have propositioned us to review their toys in exchange for, you know, their toys.
This week, one of our anonymous reviewers tried out the Dominix flogger, courtesy of Lovehoney.
- Material: PVC falls, allegedly leather-wrapped handle
- Color:blue or…
Me, Piper Chapman, the Psych Ward, and the Incarcerated 2.2 Million
Having been institutionalized is not something I ever forget, exactly, but I tend to keep those memories on lockdown. It was Netflix that finally blasted them back out into the open – specifically, Orange is the New Black. Cue the theme song, cue the waterworks – I cried all the way through every episode of Season Two, tears pooling uncomfortably in my headphones.
It was the bathrooms, of all…
