If you’re a campus activist, a young feminist, or a weirdo queer looking for a place to casually run into some of the best people on Earth, this is the event for you. Plus, each and every Autostrad…
Great article about Ellen Degeneres and Ellen Page: How far America had come culturally, how far it hasn’t, and why we should be wary of complacency.
On the journey from there to here.
Damn. Good stuff Riese.
"This country loves to pass a few laws and then declare everything officially fixed forever. This country has a short memory. It belittles the struggles of the disempowered and we see it happen every day when people who experience racism or sexism are usually told by alleged allies that their own account of their own oppression is irrelevant and overdramatic. That dismissal from alleged allies hasn’t happened on a large scale to the LGBT community quite yet, but it could get there sooner than you think, and that could happen before “the LGBT community as a whole” has really even begun to give the issues of queers of color, trans* people, and all overlaps therein, their proper attention"
To be Black means to be 20% more likely to report having psychological distress than white US Americans. The disparity is compounded when socioeconomic class factors into the reports. Narrowing the categories complicates the results because the number and types of illnesses and/or disorders increase in proportion to the number of marginalized identities a person has. A study done from February of 2004 to January of 2005 details that 60% of Black LGBTQ people have some type of mental disorder.
VIDEO: Jessica Williams Delivers One Kickass Tirade About Stand Your Ground Laws In One Badass Suit
VIDEO: Jessica Williams Delivers One Kickass Tirade About Stand Your Ground Laws In One Badass Suit
Yvonne’s Team Pick:We should all give Jessica Williams, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’s first black woman correspondent, a standing ovation for her on-point realness on last night’s show. In a segment regarding Michael Dunn’s verdict and Stand Your Ground laws, Jessica delivered one kickass tirade about how black teens should protect themselves and the problem with Stand Your Ground laws all…
DapperQ’s Runway Show Featured Hot Dandy Looks, Threw One Dangerously Danceable Party
DapperQ’s Runway Show Featured Hot Dandy Looks, Threw One Dangerously Danceable Party
There was an exuberance bordering on chaos this past Sunday night as designers, stylists, models, photographers and assorted onlookers – myself included – piled into Chelsea’s classy Avenue nightclub. The occasion: DapperQ’s New York Fashion Week 2014 runway show, a celebration of five glorious years in production of the leading fashion website for the unconventionally masculine.
Photographer Joi…
Zine Crush: I Love You Queerly
Zine Crush: I Love You Queerly
Hello humans of Autostraddle! Are you interested in donating to an amazing organization, SAGE, a charity for the Services and Advocacy of GLBT Elders, while also receiving an amazing zine showcasing queer love in all forms? I Love You Queerlyis a collaborative zine being sold for charity that celebrates queer expressions of love. In this case, “queer” means any way love is expressed outside of…
To Be Queer, Black, and “Sick”
To Be Queer, Black, and “Sick”
Disclaimer: The usage of the word “sick” in this article is to reflect the problematic, social stigma around mental illness, and not as a moral or social indictment of people with mental illnesses or disorders.
The first woman I ever loved told me that when you’re queer and Black, illness is a shadow that always follows you but that no one ever acknowledges. She sung the words “I’m fine” every…
Read essays from our A-Camp 4.0 campers and find out how to apply for or donate to the Campership Fund for 5.0!
This is the post where we officially ask you, dear readers and lovers, to donate to The Campership Fund.If you want to donate a full campership ($545), we’ll be getting in touch with you about whether or not you would like your identity revealed to the camper so they can tell you thank you. But any size donation helps!
If you want to apply for a Campership, you can do so here. The only requirements for full camperships are that you be a new camper who’s never been to A-Camp before and that you are 100% certain you can get there. Tell us all about why you need A-Camp and why A-Camp needs you
Let’s Take A Sec To Discuss The A-Camp Sponsors Who Made October Extra Awesome
Let’s Take A Sec To Discuss The A-Camp Sponsors Who Made October Extra Awesome
Most queer events these days are awash in corporate sponsorships — a girl can’t take an innocent stroll by the pool without getting hit in the head with a Bud Light beach ball or plied with Vitamin Water samples. We always knew A-Camp wasn’t necessarily the right space for that kind of branding, but we also knew we had a lot to…
Also.Also.Also: Michelle Obama and Chelsea Clinton Are Both Gunning to Be Ellen Page’s Next Lover and Other Stories We Missed This Week
Hi, ramen noodles! Last night I came home, thought I lost my phone, enlisted three people to help me get it back, and then found it laying on my bed. Here’s the stories we missed this week while I was too drunk.
Russia Won’t Admit This Happened+ A former member of the Italian Parliament who is also a trans woman was detained on her journey to the Sochi Olympics, but the Russian police have no…
Lauren Monger’s Online Comic “Terrible Terrible Terrible” is Amazing Amazing Amazing
Lauren Monger’s Online Comic “Terrible Terrible Terrible” is Amazing Amazing Amazing
Lauren Monger’s webcomic, which I don’t think has an official name, but is chronicled on the tumblr Terrible Terrible Terrible, is grim and gritty, dirty and devious, full of gut punches and stubbed toes and rage and clenched fists. It screams until it’s hoarse and laughs at itself after it falls on its face. Terrible Terrible Terribleis the furry online comic version of a…
