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Daria Pleggenkuhle
Really hope autostraddle does a recap of the Bomb Girls movie life has been a serious struggle without my regular dose of sassily captioned Betty screenshots
kate is recapping the hell out of that unit
Canadian Inuit Respond to Ellen DeGeneres’ Famous Selfie with Sealfies and Tradition

Canadian Inuit are using sealfies — photos with seal skins and meat — to demonstrate the role the seal hunt plays in their lives and protest Ellen DeGeneres’s Oscars-selfie-related donation to the Humane Society of the United States, an organization that loudly opposes it.
After DeGeneres’s Oscars selfie with Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep and others became the most retweeted photo ever,…
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: I’m Definitely Still At Work, How About You?

Hello, mouseketeers, and welcome to this week’s Friday Open Thread! We have a Friday Open Thread every Friday because any other day of the week wouldn’t make any sense ever since we gave it that name. Kidding! It’s because we like you and we want to hang out with you on the weekends just like the people in your life who actually get to see your face!
I’m currently in the middle of prepping for the
Unfortunately for Private Benjamin, Quinn’s dating Nate Archibald from Gossip Girl, aka “Biff MacIntosh.” His family invented apples, which means he is a descendent of Adam and Eve, which means he was created by G-d. Every now and then G-d messes up, you guys, like when he made tornadoes, the douchebag who stole my bike yesterday, men and Love Actually.
Put Down What You’re Doing Right Now And Go #GetCovered

Hey there tiny dancers, crazy diamonds, and console cowgirls. Do you know what Monday is? Monday is March 31, your last day to sign up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act.The LAST ONE. If you don’t have health insurance — which many Autostraddle readers and even Autostraddle staff members don’t — this is crunch time for you to make the miracle happen. And having health insurance…
The time for Porn Studies is now. All types of porn are getting more accessible, and partly getting better, and conversations about sex and sexuality and what goes in front of our eyeballs when our hands are down our pants and what that might or might not say about us as people and as queers and as a society are more and more prevalent. […] With porn representing — or having the potential to represent — such a wide scope of human existence, the fact that the first issue of Porn Studies came out less than a week ago seems stupid at best.
Top 5 Snacks From My Hometown In South Texas
I was born and raised in a very special place called the Rio Grande Valley, a region comprised of four counties in South South South Texas with a 90% Latino population.
I have a love/hate relationship with this wonderful, weird place.
I grew up in a whole different world from…
The Comment Awards Would Travel The Globe For You
Hey road trippers!
This week’s articles came from far and wide. Riese explained magic of magic of Northern California and Drea took us to the queerest corners of Houston. A ruling in Lebanon advanced trans* and LGB rights while the Tennessee state Senate passed a bill that will allow kids to get bullied because “religious freedom.”
We found out your favorite brands of frozen pizza and how you met…
HELLO and welcome to the 120th installment of Things I Read That I Love, wherein I share with you some of the longer-form journalism/essays I’ve read recently so that you can read them too and we can all know more about endometriosis! This “column” is less feminist/queer focused than the rest of the site because when something is feminist/queer focused, I put it on the rest of the site. Here is…