What St. Vincent Has Been Telling Us All Along: Gender in Juxtaposition
What St. Vincent Has Been Telling Us All Along: Gender in Juxtaposition
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Annie Clark — aka St. Vincent, ace composer, shredder of a generation, near-future cult leader, semi-reluctant fashion plate — hates being asked the women-in-music question in interviews. Maybe it’s because she is so often asked the women-in-music question in interviews (she and Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs have commiserated on this point: “I feel like every time…
Most Important Ugly: Mars and Melissa and the Baby Beginnings
Most Important Ugly: Mars and Melissa and the Baby Beginnings
I believe makeup is magic – a chaotic neutral if you want to be precise about it. For so many people, it’s intimidating and scary and suffocating and heavy with the weight of expectations and failed fantasy. I was definitely one of those people for a long time. But somewhere along the way (read: my mall goth days at the age of the 13) I learned that blue lipstick could make boys recoil and make…
This List of 73 Sexy Black Female Scientists Calls Out STEM’s Exclusion of Black Women
This List of 73 Sexy Black Female Scientists Calls Out STEM’s Exclusion of Black Women
As a woman engineer, I generally find lists of sexy women in STEM appalling. (Like, if we’re saving the damn world, why is it also necessary for us to be sexy?) I almost didn’t click through when I saw Kyla McMullen’s list of the “Sexiest Black Female Scientists”released a few days ago, but I’m so glad that I did. It’s an incredibly impressive group of women, and right at the top of the article,…
This Sunday Funday, Lea DeLaria and Hannah Hart Are Rockin’ Tuxedos
This Sunday Funday, Lea DeLaria and Hannah Hart Are Rockin’ Tuxedos
Extra, extra, read all about it: it’s Sunday Funday and every little thing is pretty freakin’ awesome.
OITNB is Basically Everything+ The Orange Is The New Black (and Orphan Black) cast(s) kicked ass and took names at the Critics Choice Awards Thursday.
+ Lea DeLaria is gonna change the world vis a vis Big Boo. You just watch. (She also has a crush on Natasha Lyonne because stars: they’re just…
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Will Sext You The Correct Number Of Kisses
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Will Sext You The Correct Number Of Kisses
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Welcome to NSFW Sunday!
+ Happy International Strap-On Week! Wanna buy one?
+ The sex toy revolution will be crowd sourced:
“Despite the more than $15 billion sex toy industry, investors are scared to touch sex toys. ‘Developing hardware requires a lot of capital — but traditional sources of funding … aren’t always enthusiastic…
It’s like this classic depressive thing. Where you’re making everyone miserable and you tell them to leave you alone because you will make them miserable, but unfortunately they care. They love you.
“Pure Poetry #18: Raymond Carver Could Drink Ten Quarts of this Beer“ -Autostraddle (via thenoodlesoupwetaketowork)
Programming Things 101: Hello Queer World!
Programming Things 101: Hello Queer World!
Hi Queermos! I’m Intern Chloe, I’m a software engineer at a large tech company, and I want to teach you things about programming computers! Programming is one of my top three favorite activities, after eating pasta and responding to Autostraddle tech support requests. Hopefully you might want to program computers too, because there’s a ton of job growth in I.T., and while there are some pretty…
Saturday Morning Cartoons: The Party
Saturday Morning Cartoons: The Party
Welcome to Saturday Morning Cartoons, a segment where four artists take turns delighting you with their whimsy, facts and punchlines on Saturday mornings! Our four esteemed cartoon critters are Cameron Glavin, Anna Bongiovanni, Megan Prazenica and Sarah Rosenblatt. Today’s cartoon is by Anna!
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Anna’s next comic will drink your cooking bourbon on July…
The Comment Awards Are Summer Dreaming
The Comment Awards Are Summer Dreaming
Hello flip flops! What fine things are you up to today? I’m making weekend plans involving oysters, patio beer and young adult fiction. Things are looking good.
This week was full of summertime inspirations for your tastebuds with caffeine-rich cold drink recipes and delicious foods you can make out of freaking flowers.
Jack Tar 207′s list of 50 Fierce Femmesincluded some familiar faces (Hi…
Rhymes with Witches: Drew Barrymore in 90’s Cult Classic, “Poison Ivy”
Rhymes with Witches: Drew Barrymore in 90′s Cult Classic, “Poison Ivy”
I have to be honest. I had never watched the 1992 cult classic Poison Ivy until last night. I know! And even stranger, I thought about watching it through the suggestion of my favorite sad crooner and self-proclaimed “gangsta Nancy Sinatra,” Lana Del Rey. And by suggestion I mean I was obsessively listening to her new album Ultraviolence where she mentions being called “poison ivy” in the title…
Pretty Little Liars 502 Recap: Stuck Out Here On Planet Alison
Pretty Little Liars 502 Recap: Stuck Out Here On Planet Alison
Welcome back to Pretty Little Liars, Season 5, The One Where Ali Is Back. Good news: we totally killed A last week and the show’s over! You can all leave now, nothing to see here.
Wait, nah, let’s stretch this out a little more with an entire season of MOOOOOORE LIES.
“Well, this isn’t called the Pretty Little Tell-The-Truthers,” I said to my sister, mentally patting myself on the back for my own…
Carrie and Bren’s Great Big Lesbian Wedding With 300 Queers On A Mountaintop
Carrie and Bren’s Great Big Lesbian Wedding With 300 Queers On A Mountaintop
When little lesbian girls dream of their wedding day, they probably envision it happening on top of a mountain in Southern California with zero actual family members and 300 members of their big queer “family,” many of whom they do not actually know personally. They probably imagine a 23-year-old comic-book writer / forever intern serving as their ring bearer, substituting a stuffed dog named Tinkerbell (she used to be a purse) for the traditional pillow. They imagine a 25-year-old Jewish vagabond flower girl whose primary relationship to flowers is a preference for floral print dresses tossing petals into the wind. They probably imagine a Wedding Officiant who received her certification on the internet for $35 and has questionable public reading/speaking skills. They probably imagine a banquet held in a cafeteria designed for rowdy eight-year-olds.
FRIDAY (.gif) OPEN THREAD: Your Relationship Status
FRIDAY (.gif) OPEN THREAD: Your Relationship Status
Hello genderfriends and ladlespoons (yup, totally stole it from Cameron, who is a genius)! It is Friday! Congrats to those who have Monday-Friday jobs and made it through the week. To everyone who has to work this weekend, hopefully your job is fun! But no matter what you’re up to this weekend, it’s time for the Friday Open Thread. The post where you post your thingz and probably a bunch of…
Presbyterian Church Assembly Votes to Make Room for Marriage Equality in Their Congregation
Presbyterian Church Assembly Votes to Make Room for Marriage Equality in Their Congregation
Kaci and Holly Clark-Porter met as students at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Austin, Texas. When they decided to get married, they grieved at not being able to have their commitment ceremony in the school’s Shepard Chapel. After a landmark vote in the Presbyterian Church USA General Assembly Thursday, gay and lesbian couples may now be able to have such ceremonies in Shepard Chapel…