Spring decided on fashionably late this year, as you might have noticed, but (with a few holdouts) it’s here! Hooray! The arrival of more pleasant weather, fragrant blooms and flowering trees means, yes, allergies knocking you senseless (bless you), but it also means there’s a good chance that someone you know is getting ready to tie the knot. Go fetch your prettiest handkerchiefs and let’s help you get dressed for the happy occasion.
It’s our 39th Autostraddle Anonymous Sex Toy Review! Over the last few years, sex toy companies and stores have propositioned us, wondering if we’d like to review their toys in exchange for, you know, their toys.
This week, one of our anonymous reviewers tried out theDorado glass dildo, available at Good Vibes.
If you’re anything like me, you simply CANNOT WAIT for Season Two of Orange is the New Blackto drop right into your lap and change your life forever and inspire you to spend a series of perfectly lovely midsummer evenings watching every episode over and over again until you can basically perform the entire series for your cat. This new trailer is chock-full of new characters, new drama, new sex, new drugs, new shit hitting the fan.
How do you make omelets and French toast even better than they already are? Matzo, that’s how.
I know that “matzo” isn’t typically the answer to that kind of question because that shit is dry and flavorless, but just go with me on this. Much like the fried tortillas in chilaquiles, matzo has this way of turning regular old breakfast into something special, textured, and absolutely delicious.
Back in my college days, I used to evaluate potential romantic partners on the basis of their texting abilities. The perfect flirtext (not to be confused with the far more scandalous sext) involved 1. a pun, 2. the kind of language most frequently found in a Jane Austen novel and 3. perfect punctuation.
I think the world is going crazy! In 40 years from now an old gay couples will be holding hands on the street?? I mean, do you see things like that in our days? 2 old lesbian women?How can you explain that all this "gay thing" was not so popular in the past? And why there is no such a thing in the nature (have you ever saw a gay dog?cow?cat?) i keep asking myself if we are,the humans, invented all the gayness. And don't get me wrong,i think you awesome.just have to hear your opinion about it
Thank you for your question. Yes, 40 years from now gay and lesbian couples will be holding hands down the street, hopefully with little to no risk of hate and violence that so many before us feared while doing so. And this was “popular” in the past. Here is 150 years of photos of lesbian couples: X
It would be very odd for me to see dogs, cats, or cows walking down the street holding hands (even if they did have hands). However, over 1500 species of animals practice homo-tendencies romantically, sexually or in parenting. Here is a list of ten X There is also an entire species of lizard called the New Mexico Whiptail that is entirely lesbians, all female. No males. X
No, I don’t think we “invented” gayness, but I do think lots of us ignore how much homo-ness is and always was all around us.
On March 21-23, I had a blast at Anime Boston, the largest anime convention in New England and one of the biggest on the East Coast. As usual, I went to plenty of panels about social issues in my favorite anime, took a lot of pictures of cosplayers, and spent far, far too much money in the Artist’s Alley and dealer’s room. But this wasn’t entirely a typical convention for me, because for once, I got to attend and cover one of the convention’s main events rather than just a small panel. I got to see the new English dub and voice actor Q&A for Attack on Titan!
Maggie, a 24-year-old engineer from Toronto, knew she was queer from the moment she first experienced the spark. “I had my first kiss with a girl when I was thirteen and it felt like my whole body was electrified,” she says. “It was a random drunk kiss, so I didn’t get to explore the concept further.” By the time she was fifteen years old, she was in a relationship with another girl. “It was emotional and physical, and it lasted for two years,” Maggie says. Yet she didn’t “understand or accept” her queerness until her early twenties. Why? “Because of the social skills groups that I was put into, I didn’t really realize that I could be queer.”
It’s that time again — the time of year when I gather a tiny handful of mystical elderberry juice, the innards of an antique clock, five bottles of discontinued nail polish, a quart of dirt from my “backyard,” a well-preserved two-ounce serving of Crystal Clear Pepsi and from this magical combination of ingredients, I produce your May A-Camp CABIN ASSIGNMENTS! (ETA: Within the next two weeks)
This year, as in last year, I gave you a chance to describe yourself when you registered so that I could try to put you in a cabin with other humans who are exactly as weird or loud as you are. It’s an unrefined process, but I think over time I’ve established at least a 65% success rate, which is a lot more than I can say for my counselors at labor zionist youth camp. Stay tuned for my follow-up list, “25 Special Ways A-Campers Used The Personal Description Box To Explain What It Means To Be An “Outgoing Introvert.”
Here are some sentences from your descriptions of yourselves, ripped mercilessly out of context and placed here, in this list, for our communal entertainment and delight.
Last week, I wrote about Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, the former Icelandic prime minister who was the first out LGBT person in the world to be elected a nation’s head of state. When I was writing it, I realized that Sigurðardóttir had had this whole fascinating political career I never knew about, both before and after she came out a decade ago. That made me curious how many other awesome LGBT women have come out and been successful politicians, only to go unnoticed by most people outside their home country. So I did some digging, and it turns out there are a lot of them! Here are 10 who were the first out women to hold their particular seat, and just a few of the cool things they’ve done since then.
Hello, sunshines! This week I made avocado banana bread (a gem from Rachel and Hansen’s avocado roundup) and it came out really well! Here are the stories we missed while my oven was pre-heating.
