Captain’s Log: Ladies With Feelings Forever
Hello, pomegranate seeds! It’s time to talk about new tunes! It’s summertime so you’d think I’d be cruising around with the top down, sipping on lemonade, wearing super cool neon shades and blasting high-energy tracks about lipgloss or whatever. Instead, I’m finding myself drawn to mopey women with guitars, plodding dance beats and navel-gazing, introspective lyrics. Let’s crank up the air…
dapperQ’s 100 Most Stylish Features Your Favorite Heartthrobs: Hannah Hart, Ari Fitz and More!
Last year, dapperQ compiled their 1st ever 100 most stylish dapperQ’s that included Brittney Griner, Ellen DeGeneres and Rachel Maddow (plus some faces more directly associated with Autostraddle). This year dapperQ came up with a brand new list of 100 Most Stylish dapperQs. We saw Jack Tar 207′s 50 Fierce Femmeslist last week, and now it’s time to give some love to the dapper folks who range from…
I’m a smallish person, with a quiet voice and quiet behaviors that don’t always prove the best conduit for my (often) loud ideas and emotions. When I was a teenager, I’d spend entire Saturdays practicing White Stripes songs in my bedroom, which I pretended was a garage, on my plastic acoustic guitar, which I pretended was an electric, artificially screeching up into the high notes when I sang so that I’d sound more like Jack White, who has to reach farther for them than I do. When I watch Annie Clark be St. Vincent being Steve Albini, growling Big Black songs into a processed microphone, I think: so that’s what that game looks like, turned into a professional sport. Pedals, microphones, body language — all these things can make you even louder than you are in your own head. Juxtaposed with smallness, quietness, and yeah, female-bodiedness, they become louder still. And maybe that juxtaposition is who you really are.
FIFA Claims “Zero Tolerance” On Discrimination; Citizens of World Cup Host Countries Might Disagree
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On Thursday, June 19th, FIFA announced that it was opening a case against Mexico to investigatethe “improper conduct of spectators” a week earlier on June 13th, and on June 17th. The disciplinary proceedings began after allegations that Mexican spectators had used homophobic slurs during Mexico’s World Cup match against Cameroon and then later during the second match…
Most Important Ugly: I Believe Makeup Is Magic
The tradition of makeup as a means of coping and identity manipulation is of course embedded into the history of queer culture and makeup at large itself. Even if I hardly ever go out to parties in NYC, I owe so much of myself to the O.G. club kids like Leigh. Sometimes I’ll be playing with my makeup and come across a picture of Bowery on the internet afterwards, and we’ll look like siblings in eyeshadow. Your queer ghosts will always haunt you. I like that kind of ghost. The ones we’ve lost push us forward, you know?
I wrote a letter to myself about over thinking in a relationship. Maybe I wrote this letter to you as well.
Quotes from a new Rolling Stone cover story just make explicit the themes she’s been shredding about for years.
Finally, an Autostraddle critical analysis of St. Vincent’s oeuvre.
Liquor In The Barrel: A Barrel-Aged Manhattan
For a while there, the fashion was adding bacon to cocktails. As I am a vegetarian and didn’t even much like bacon when I wasn’t, I am super glad to see that fashion replaced by barrel-aging a cocktail. The nice part is you can barrel-age a wide variety of things, and at home too! If you ask people what their favorites are, a few come up repeatedly: Negronis, Vieux Carres and Manhattans. I’ve…
Make a Thing: Freezer Paper T-Shirt Stencils
Don’t get mad, but I have a confession to make. I just saw the movie Flashdance for the very first time like a month ago.
Are you okay? Are you still here? Good. Well, in the midst of my Jennifer Beals-induced haze, I noticed the tank top her pal Jeanie wears at the bar where they work, Mawby’s. My heart was immediately a-flutter no longer just thanks to Beals’ bod, but (nerd alert) that font!
I…
“Team Girl Comic Issue 10″ Brings Together Over 20 Women Comic Creators
by rory midhani
Team Girl Comic Issue 10 starts with a short comic by Gill Hatcher and Claire Yvette (the editors) telling the story of how Team Girl Comiccame to be. According to the legend, it all started a long, long time ago (2009) in a mystical and magical kingdom (Glasgow) when Hatcher was selling her DIY comics and noticed the lack of other women making comics. She soon gathered other…
Senate Delay Threatens Funding for Thousands of Untested Rape Kits
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It’s a problem of unknown magnitude — recent estimates place the number somewhere around 100,000 — but the consequences of the nationwide rape kit testing backlogare clear and appalling. While precincts with budget problems can’t afford the $1,200 price tag that comes with examining them, the attackers whose DNA they may contain walk free; the victims who told…
Two Years Later, Shooter of Texas Teenage Lesbian Couple Arrested For Murder and Sexual Assault
You may remember the story of 19-year-old Mollie Judith Olgin and 18-year-old Mary Christine Chapa, a young lesbian couple who, in June 2012, were assaulted, shot and left for dead in Violet Andrews Park overlooking Corpus Christi Bay in Portland, Texas. Chapa survived the shooting but suffered a brain injury. Olgin did not. Friends described the couple, who had been dating for five months, as…
BPM: Disclosure and a Corpse Reviver #2
An installment of BPM: Booze Paired with Music. A brief exposé on artists, popular or obscure, to suit your need for beats. Along with it, a little treat to make for yourself while you bask in the sound of glory and a drink well done. As a former DJ, violinist, aca-bopper, and hip-hop dancer, I try to bring you as much variety in artists and commentary as I can. Listen on!
Artist: Disclosure
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25 Berry Delicious Ways To Eat Berries
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…
so much of my life and work is dedicated to exploring means of survival and ways of coping with anxiety and shame in unexpected ways. Mostly it’s been a private enterprise, just me messing around before I go out, but over the past year I reached out more and wanted to build it into something my friends and chosen family could share with me. Many of us would sit around and do our makeup together, just a bunch of angry queers in a room screaming to Missy Elliot. It felt important to ritualize the results. Especially considering we were in the same place of emotional struggle; I’d written a series of questions called Therapy Sessions in Sephora last time I was in one and posted it on my blog. I got hundreds of responses to my questions within days. It felt really powerful, reading those results. I didn’t want that kind of potency to just sit there.
