9 Autostraddle-Approved Travel Accessories for Your Next Vacation
Let’s let love win, but not let love be our only strategy.
“If by nice night you mean a nice night to wallow in your own GUILT in the dark, then yes, I agree.”
Grease Bats: The Cheater
Things I Read That I Love #237: An Alternative Story In Which We Can Find Love Anywhere We Want To Find It
Airbrushing Shittown by Aaron Bady for Hazlitt, May 2017
I generally avoid pieces that exist only to explain “this thing that everybody likes is actually bad / problematic / the problem” but because this was on Hazlitt, I knew it’d be more than just that, and so I opened it and I read it and I was right and it was interesting and well written and by the end I was glad I’d done it.
The Art of Poetry No. 99: Eileen Myles by Ben Lerner / Eileen Myles for The Paris Review, Fall 2015
Eileen Myles will always be refreshing.
And more…
Chapter III of “Dear White People” gives us Nia Long as Neika Hobbs in my dream job as an African-American studies professor and a beautiful self-proclaimed lesbian… but her storyline, and really the show in general, didn’t quite land for me.
I used to think that my partner’s interest in someone else reflected upon me and our relationship. I feel like I’ve become more confident since letting go of that belief and not allowing other people to determine how I feel about myself.








