Oh my lord honey it is the MOST OKAY. Here’s the thing: I know it doesn’t necessarily feel good right now. No one can give you a promise about when this will stop feeling hard and scary and weird. But I can pretty much promise you that you’ll look back on this time as when everything started to change for the better, and be really proud of yourself. You were able to leave an unhealthy situation, be honest with yourself about what you want, and start building a better life for yourself. You are so brave and should be so proud of yourself! In five years, future-you is gonna build a time machine just so they can send past-you an Edible Arrangement. So when the chocolate-covered pineapple flowers show up on your doorstep next week, you’ll know where it came from.
Anime gets frequently stereotyped as full of empty “fanservice” girls, with cardboard personalities and unrealistic body proportions. But in spite of them I’ve found plenty of great female characte…
Judge my taste in animated ladies, followers!
Sunday Funday is Eating from a Food Truck with Kelis, and That’s as Gay as it Sounds
Sunday Funday is Eating from a Food Truck with Kelis, and That’s as Gay as it Sounds
It’s Sunday, queers, and you know what that means! COME ON, GET HAPPY, IT’S TIME FOR THE SUNDAY FUNDAY!
Kelis Ran A Food Truck At #SXSWShe’s bossy, and feeding you from a truck. In honor of her new album!
She’s Got Style, She’s Got Grace
Addie Vincent, the first-ever trans contenstant at Chapman University’s Miss Delta Queen competition (read: pageant), is Miss Congeniality! Sandra Bullock…
Mrs. Morgan: Well, I don’t think being gay is anything to joke about.
Ellen Morgan: Well I’m sorry, I don’t know what else to do. I was scared, I was ashamed — and now that it’s “out” — you know what? It’s funny!
Ellen, Episode 424 (May 1997)
Five Publications You Didn’t Know You Could Get Digitally
Five Publications You Didn’t Know You Could Get Digitally
Usually, I’m a big fan of real live books made of paper that smell like adventure and imagination. I don’t know how I’d decorate my apartment if I didn’t have scores of books, mostly read but some unread, lining my walls and shelves and tables and all other flat surfaces. I…
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Hair
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Hair
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 Cameron!
Cameron’s next comic will compliment your ALH on April 12th.
Playlist: These Pictures of Kristen Stewart
Playlist: These Pictures of Kristen Stewart
Autostraddle fav Kristen Stewart recently did a photo shoot for Wildfang clothing. This was the result:
via Wildfang
Here is a playlist about those pictures. I make no presumptions and offer the following feelings list without commentary.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: I Just Ate Nachos, What The F*ck Are You Doing?
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: I Just Ate Nachos, What The F*ck Are You Doing?
Hello, Those Who Straddle! (And those who don’t, too, you do you.) It’s been a whole week since our last communal descent into madness and thus it’s time for this week’s Friday Open Thread! Did you know that there’s a Friday Open Thread every Friday, just like newspapers used to only be in color on Sunday? This is better, though, because it doesn’t get ink on your hands.
Geneva’s still in town…
Here’s How NYC Public Schools Plans To Better Support Their Trans* Students
Here’s How NYC Public Schools Plans To Better Support Its Trans* Students
New York City Department of Education has implemented new guidelines for schools to support transgender students. With 1.1 million students, NYC is the largest public school system in the country, and has a lot of influence setting standards for how other big school systems and states support trans* students. “They’re taking a step in the right direction,” said Octavia Lewis, educational…
The Comment Awards Would Memorize Pi For You
The Comment Awards Would Memorize Pi For You
Good day, wanderers! It’s the mathiest day of the year but we all know the real hero of today is pie. Cherry, rhubarb, apple, pumpkin and sweet potato pie. Pie pie pie. Go get yourself a slice.
This week we checked in with Lindsay Lohan, fell in love with a girl and planned a retroactive coming out party.
We’re at the halfway point of March which means we’re still flush with Top Five Lists commem…
Things I Read That I Love #118: Folks Are Well-Intentioned and Stupid, Well-Intentioned and Broken
Things I Read That I Love #118: Folks Are Well-Intentioned and Stupid, Well-Intentioned and Broken
HELLO and welcome to the 118th 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 Back to the Future II!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.…
