10 Reasons Why Michelle Rodriguez and Cara Delevingne Are Already The Gayest Couple Ever
Bisexual actress Michelle Rodriguez and British fashion model Cara Delevingne have been dating for approximately six weeksand have already far exceeded my wildest expectations for the first celebrity romance I’ve cared about since SamRo/Lilo (RIP). In addition to inspiring me to set up my first-ever “google alert,” Michelle and Cara have enjoyed a whirlwind love affair filled with fancy fashions,…
Lez Liberty Lit #40: A Page-Turner At Heart
by carolyn & riese
Lit LinksAccording to a new and frankly unsurprising study, women feel a lot less comfortable in literary communities.
At the Toast, Zan Romanoff writes about Nicola Griffith’s Hild its comparisons to Game of Thrones, and why those comparisons are wrong (because it is so much better):
“If [George R.R. Martin] had ever been left out of a story—and not just one, but a hundred,…
Getting Your Lit Nerd on with Reading Apps
Ali here—this week we’ve got another guest columnist for Queer Your Tech. You’ve seen her on Autostraddle writing our hilarious Star Trek recaps! You maybe have met her in person when you went to Sistah Sinema! Please everyone give a loud round of virtual applause to Loraine!
When my wife and I moved away from Honolulu to Seattle, I had to say goodbye to a whole lotta books. It was pretty…
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Love Letters
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 Anna!
Sometimes we do a really good story, like a real story, like a magazine-style feature story, with images and interviews and original reporting and really good words and sentences and ideas. This is one of those stories and I think you should read it and comment on it.
The Comment Awards Want To Buy Ellen Page A Drink
How goes it, gentle comrades?
Welcome to AfterEllenPage.com! I can see you’re still rocking that whoa-she-actually-came-out afterglow. Yes indeed, it was the best Valentine’s Day of all time, wasn’t it? Grace made a playlist about it and then as if on cue, Michelle Rodriguez opened up about dating Claire Delevingne. The future of celesbian culture is looking bright!
That said, there are still…
Every Lesbian On TV Has A Side Part
I can imagine pretty vividly how big network meetings go down. Not because I’ve ever been in one, but because I was required to take a critical thinking class in college. Fun sidebar: my college required a class in CRITICAL THINKING. Anyway, I can see it all happening in my head…
Writer: Our show needs more diversity.
Network: But we just had a black guy last season.
Writer: -_______-
Network:Fine,…
Portrait of a Community: Inside Barneys’ Groundbreaking Campaign Featuring 17 Trans* Models
It was the shoot heard ’round the world: 17 trans* models coming together for the Spring 2014 Barneys New York campaign called ”Brothers, Sisters, Sons, and Daughters.” And, for once, talking for themselves.
[vimeo 85408525 w=500 h=281]The campaign, shot in New York by Bruce Weber, included models from not only various gender presentations and identities but also a diverse array of hometowns,…
Things I Read That I Love #115: I Go From Zero To Bitch In 2.5 Seconds
HELLO and welcome to the 115th 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 Sabrina the Teenage Witch! 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…
My family used to joke that only white people need therapy. Meanwhile, white academics told me that African-Americans merely fabricated ungrounded stigma around psychiatric help. No one ever tells …
Captain’s Log: Happy Belated Valentimes
Has it really been a month since we gathered under the stars to sing along to all the raddest new tracks in all the land? To make up for lost time, this Captain’s Log is extra long and stocked full of the best new music I could scrape together. First though, you guys, can we talk about my new banner by the brilliant Rory Midhani? It’s a little less Ahab, a little more Captain Hook than I’ve…
#AutoAri: Some Real Word Questions, F*ck Yeah
This week on The Real World: Ex-Plosion, Ari found herself smack-dab in the middle of Hell.
Shit hits the fan first when Tom decides to lose every last piece of his shit during a series of unfortunate events brought on only by his douchebaggery, including breaking up with Jamie.
While Hailey slowly plots to ruin Jamie’s life for being infinitely more interesting than her, Ari butches it up and…
