Lesbian Rapper Siya Comes to Your TV on Reality Show about Women Rappers
Brooklyn emcee Siya joins the ranks of upcoming women rappers featured on the reality show Sisterhood of Hip Hop. Grammy award-winning rapper T.I. is the executive producer of the program which will follow Bia, Brianna Perry, Diamond (of Crime Mob), Nyemiah Supreme and Siya as the women strive to create successful solo careers. Sisterhood of Hip Hopwill issue a teaser episode on July 22nd and air…
The Danger at the Intersection of Street Harassment and Compulsory Heterosexuality
The first time I learned about street harassment, I was taught that only I could prevent it. This was about the same time that Smokey the Bear was telling me that only I could prevent forest fires and Captain Planet told me that the power was mine to save the Earth. The world was sure entrusting a lot to seven-year-old me.
The aforementioned logic about street harassment taught me that street…
Problematic, ridiculous, and sometimes mind-numbing as The L Word was, this show was a massive part of my coming into myself and my identity. I remember the summer after I’d first come out, hiding in my bedroom and watching episode after episode in my small rural town, drooling over this world where all these lesbians could hang out with each other and talk shop in the open, where there were enough homosexual people in a single location for them to be friends and socialize with each other and have active sex lives. I cried when they cried. I laughed when they laughed. I’m not even ashamed to admit that watching an episode was like visiting with friends. Damn it all, but I really do miss this show. I’d be totally down with another wacky, wonderful season of guilty pleasures and way-too-relevant storylines that make me miss my ex or cry about my future or make me feel less lonely when I’m not in my queer bubble.
MTV’s “Faking It” Renewed For Season Two, Praise Lesbian Jesus
Listen, I know all you can think about right now is Orange Is The New Black, but remember how other (albeit inferior) TV shows exist? TV shows like MTV’s Faking It, a show that’s about, like, you know that thing that happens to lesbians in high school? How we strike up a really intense best-friendship with a straight girl who’s really into it? And we convince ourselves that friends is good,…
What Makes You Unstoppable? Tell Us and You Could Win Cool Stuff!
MOTRIN® has teamed up with Autostraddle.com and Lesbian.com to host a contest to give you the opportunity to share your own unstoppable-ness with the world and win great prizes.
HELLO YOU ARE AWESOME. We were just talking about you this morning, and how awesome you are — it’s actually how we begin each day. Then we do a gratitude…
Autostraddle Merch! The Tomboy Femme Tee, Black You Do You Tee & New A-Camp Hoodies!
Ladies and other humans relevant to the interests of this website: we have some new merchandise in our store and we think you’re gonna like these things a lot so we’re going to tell you about them right now. Then you can decide what you want to do with this information; it’s totally up to you.
Tomboy Femme T-Shirts: $28Last month, Hansen wrote about Tomboy Femme lingerie and so many of us…
BPM: Sylvan Esso And A Calimocho
Artist: Sylvan Esso
Cliffnotes: Bright, heady, easy
Same Aisle As: Feist, Alt-J, Tune-YardsI’m really excited to introduce you guys to Sylvan Esso, the product of an unusual pair of artists: Amelia Meath from Mountain Man (an a cappella threesome that focuses mainly on Appalachian folk a la The Wailin’ Jennys) and Nick Sanborn from Megafaun (indie folk-rock a la Justin Vernon). Together, they’ve…
32 Zucchini Recipes That Are More Exciting Than Zucchini Bread
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…
And sometimes in this wasteland of broken hearts and dirty windows, you just want to be really thoroughly reminded that not everyone is the worst.
Consider this your home until you finish the season. Bookmark this page and return to it after every episode to update us all on your personal well being. I encourage you to post a photo with your snacks and/or a picture of the face you made after finishing each episode.
Brittani via FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: “Orange Is the New Black” is Back, Drop Everything | Autostraddle (via autostraddle)
AAHHHH HERE WE GO
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"In a just over a week, my girlfriend and I will be hitting the road (or, more accurately, the transatlantic airways) on a trip that wouldn’t fit on my grandfather’s map. Our line stretches all the way to England, where we plan to visit our college roommates, gaze upon attractive historic castles, and eat some serious scones. I would like to say that I will be journaling every step of our journey in a beautifully crafted, appropriately themed notebook. However, I’m not exactly sure of what my journaling plan will entail."
- Maggie, “Dear Queer Diary: I am Leaving on an Airplane” Autostraddle. (http://www.autostraddle.com/dear-queer-diary-im-leaving-on-an-airplane-239908/ )
