Here are 5 tips for making your cycling-related resolutions at least 50% more likely to stick. (Well, maybe.)
7 Ways to Be the Best American
7 ways to be the best American
As many of you may already know, I’m a short, round, brown Rican dyke queermo who runs around the Bronx trying to hug all the people and dismantle the patriarchy. But as of late, it seems like this type of living just isn’t conducive to being the Best American. In fact, many of the issues in my life seem to stem from the fact that how I live is in complete opposition to what my country really…
The Fool’s Journey: Starting A Tarot Journal And What The Heck To Put In It
The Fool’s Journey: Starting A Tarot Journal And What The Heck To Put In It
Got yourself a brand new notebook just for Tarot School?
Let’s put something in it!
Unless you have the memory of an elephant and/or for some reason Don’t Like Journals (methinks you might be on the wrong website) then you’re gonna want to be recording your adventures as you learn and develop as a tarot reader.
Once you start to feel really confident with your cards, it’s really interesting to go…
Top Ten Ways For Non-Canadians To Celebrate a Gay Canada Day
Top Ten Ways For Non-Canadians To Celebrate a Gay Canada Day
It’s Canada Day! This is the fifth Canada Day we’ve celebrated together as a family, can you believe it? Just think it was only last year that Ellen Page hadn’t come out yet.
American Hero Shannon Waters Makes Out With Autostraddle NSFW Editor Carolyn Yates
1. Make Out With A CanadianYou might think that you can only find Canadians in Canada but that’s not true, they’re everywhere! Lots of…
Never Shop At Hobby Lobby Again: A List Of Alternative Craft Stores Both Chain and Indie
Never Shop At Hobby Lobby Again: A List Of Alternative Craft Stores Both Chain and Indie
We know by now that one positive way to promote change is by making conscious purchases. We did it with a certain chicken fast food chain and now we can do it with arts and crafts. I know it seems surprising, but there are arts and crafts stores out there that value their employees! Surprising, right?!
The thing about Hobby Lobby is that they sell literally nothing you can’t buy in every craft…
We Need Help: Now Hiring Contributing Editors!
Are you an obnoxiously talented and wildly ambitious queer writer with a unique voice and a desire to sacrifice your sanity and free time to a group of emotionally volatile wannabe-revolutionaries? GOOD NEWS: THAT DREAM COULD COME TRUE.
The Senior Editorial Team is revving up for our annual editorial “retreat,” which’s when we develop our vision for the ensuing year. Obviously this is an ideal…
Obama Closes Out Pride Month By Extending Workplace Protections to Transgender Federal Employees
Obama Closes Out Pride Month By Extending Workplace Protections to Transgender Federal Employees
As a part of the White House’s Pride Month Celebration on Monday, President Barack Obama announced that he would be signing an executive order that would grant workplace protections to federal employees based on their gender identity. This comes a few weeks after he announced another executive order banning federal contractors from discriminating based on sexual orientation or gender identity.…
You Need Help: What’s The Deal With Scissoring?
You Need Help: What’s The Deal With Scissoring?
I got this question in my (in)box:
What’s the big deal with scissoring? I can’t even imagine how it would be done. How? Does it actually do anything for you?
And then I realized something crazy — I haven’t written one single thing about scissoring. Not. Even. One. Weird, right? Because scissoring is, like, the ubiquitous sex activity that all of us are supposed to be taking part in, yeah? On the…
Amy Falcone’s “Clique Refresh”: An Awesome Webcomic About Online Gaming and Friendship
Amy Falcone’s “Clique Refresh”: An Awesome Webcomic About Online Gaming and Friendship
by rory midhani
Amy T. Falcone is kind of a favorite around here. I’ve already written about something she worked on when I covered Erica Greco’s (who I had the pleasure of meeting at A-Camp) comic Mix Tape, which Falcone colored. Another of her comics, Cardigan Weather, was also featured in Hansen’s post about Seven Queer Webcomics That Aren’t DAR. Plus, back when the comic I’ll be talking…
The next installment of Most Important Ugly photographs are now live on autostraddle.com. Go read the stories behind these photographs HERE
Becca McCharen, 2013
Rebekah Seok, 2014
Photo: Tayler Smith
Makeup: Arabelle Sicardi
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Parneet is Miss May
For the full article and more pictures of this beautiful queer model go to Autostraddle
10 Most Unstoppable Women Ever
10 Most Unstoppable Women Ever
Presented by MOTRIN®, written by Autostraddle, in the spirit of celebrating unstoppable women everywhere.
Sometimes it’s hard to get out of bed, right? And other times it’s hard to push through that last mile, or take that personal or professional risk, or stay up to finish that project. You need an extra push to get you over that difficulty-bump. Maybe it’s coffee, or a personal mantra. Or…
SCOTUS: Religious Beliefs Trump Reproductive Health, Corporations Have First Amendment Rights
SCOTUS: Religious Beliefs Trump Reproductive Health, Corporations Have First Amendment Rights
feature image via Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
Today the Supreme Court handed down a ruling on the controversial Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc case, in which the owners of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores argued that due to their religious convictions, they should not be required to cover access to certain contraceptives, as the Affordable Care Act requires. The Supreme Court has…
SF Weekly Laces Its 2014 Pride Cover Story With Transmisogyny
SF Weekly Laces Its 2014 Pride Cover Story With Transmisogyny
This year, San Francisco Pride gave Grand Marshal honors to trans woman author and advocate Janet Mock as well as Jewlyes Gutierrez, a young Latina trans woman who was initially given a misdemeanor battery charge for defending herself against ongoing bullying from three cis girls at her Bay Area high school. While those charges were later droppedas she entered a court-ordered restorative justice…