Top Five Things I’ve Panic-Ordered At Restaurants
Restaurants stress me the hell out. I am perhaps the world’s pickiest person. I also have really strange food allergies to the point where people think I’m making them up (like bananas, but only if they aren’t ripe, and sometimes when they’re cooked but only sometimes). This…
My Own Personal Top Five Trans Roots
I came out as trans much later in life than I wish I had, and finally getting here was a long and winding journey. I remember wanting to be a girl when I was just a little kid, not even in school yet, but that was before I really had any ideas about gender and what being a boy…
Autostraddle Is Five Years Old This Month and We’re Celebrating All Month Long!
Hello enormous group of humans currently tuned in to this website! It’s me, Riese, the weirdo who thought making this website would be a good idea. I made this decision five years ago with the help of my trusty business partner, Alex Vega, a designer with incredible vision and dance skills, and since that time we’ve descended slowly into madness and loved every other…
There’s a paradox in thinking that you’re better than other girls, when your whole reason for feeling that way is because you think your gender is so inherently inferior that you want to dis-identify with being a girl altogether.
More Than Words: Tomboys R Us
THIS whenever some girl brags about being “one of the boys” or says something like “I’m not like other girls, I LOVE [stereotypically masculine thing].”
(via giraffodill)
"It’s like a magic confidence talisman, that blindfold is."
Okay queermos —read the shit out of this! Super informative and perfect for you/your partner to get on that Dom status :P
#AutoAri: These Real World Questions Were Easy
This week on The Real World: Ex-Plosion, sh*t got real for Ari.
The episode starts out with Lauren’s pregnancy, since we’ve all been waiting to see how it ex-plodes. As she talks to Cory, an unbelievably loud voice in his head begins to echo, “me, me, me, me, me.” Suddenly, all he can think about is himself. It is unclear if he finds this as repulsive about himself as the rest of the world…
Star Trek N00b, Episode 13: The Menagerie Part II (Nursing Homes in Space)
Before you read on, know that this is a continuation of last week’s! You can watch along with the second part right here.
Quick recap recap, though: Spock‘s facing the death penalty! Kirk might be jobless! It’s hard to imagine what the hell James T. Kirk would do would even do if he wasn’t captaining the Enterprise…
Here he is in The Twilight Zone as a salesman, missing Spock.
Yeah, that doesn’t…
Five Books That F*cked Up My Brain Cells (In A Good Way)
The stories we read are part of us. When we read and process stories, be they fiction, non-fiction or poetry, they seep into our brain cells and affect our ways of looking at the world. And throughout the history of best sellers and literary criticism, most bestselling authors and literary critics have been white dudes, which means a lot of the stories in our brain cells are white dude stories.
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XOXO Gothip Girl: Cara Delevingne Caught In Scandalous Embrace With Underage Tiger
A Nevada-based tiger owner has fallen into some pretty hot water following a visit from whirlwind power-couple Cara Delevingne and Michelle Rodriguez. The Big Cat Encounters Ranch in Pahrump, Nevada boasts eight rare tigers, one liger and ten rescued stray dogs, and their website proudly proclaims that the ranch has been “often used as a location for international magazine and rock video…
