55 Ways To Leave Your Lesbian Vampire Lover (According To True Blood)
by vanessa and cara
Have you noticed how much of the dialogue in True Bloodis basically lifted from…
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Welcome back to Pretty Little Liars, the only real proof that I can maintain a committed, long-term…
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I had no idea what to expect when I applied to the Lambda Literary Foundation’s Writers Retreat for…
Welcome to the forty-second installment of Queer Your Tech with Fun, Autostraddle’s nerdy new tech column. Not everything we cover will be queer per se, but it will be about customizing this awesome technology you’ve got. Having it our way, expressing…
White House Will Talk About Bisexual Issues For The First Time Ever
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We had a big database with hundreds of names of potential writers. He specifically wanted ones from small towns who would work for less than people based in SF or NY… he asked me to search for talented writers in Poughkeepsie or Pittsburgh or “other crappy cities that begin with P.” In one of our meetings we went through some of the writers I picked… some from Jezebel, HelloGiggles, xoJane, etc. He had them up on the projector and we went to their sites and rated them on a 1-5 scale. There was a list of criteria — ‘good grammar,’ 'frequently updates blog.’ Then there were qualities he didn’t want — i.e. 'angry,’ 'man-hating.’ And everyone was rated on this scale. He told me not to contact so many “smart” writers (I think he meant something very specific by “smart”) and that many of the ones I liked seemed to have big chips on their shoulders. He’d never heard of Bitch or xoJane, and I don’t think he knew about Bust magazine before I told him about it… I told him about Bitch and he snarked on the name and said 'advertisers must love that.
The Comment Awards Want To Carve Tropical Fruits For You
Good day, graham crackers! Many thanks to Vanessa for taking over last week while I was getting…
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HELLO and welcome to the 89th installment of Things I Read That I Love, wherein I share with you…
Underneath His Bustle: How Everyone’s Most Resented “Feminist” Website Actually Began
Last week, Rich White Man Bryan Goldberg announcedthat he’d raised $6.5 million in venture capital…
The Mako Mori Test is Here to Fill Another Spot on Your Feminist Film Criticism Toolbelt
Feature image via monstersandcritics.com
It’s no secret that Hollywood isn’t the most…
Get Baked: Dairy-Free Apple Cake
I’m basically besotted with The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook, even though I am allergic to a large…
