The Queer DIY Grrl in Your Life: Scissoring Tote Bag
The only thing better than a double entendre is a bag that actually does do two completely separate tasks. By day, it can broadcast to everyone who comes into contact with her that she’s gay as fuck. By night, it can hold her knitting needles neatly under the computer desk in a completely unassuming manner.
This is it; you’re at the end of the line—you officially know every ghey in your city. Friends. Friends of friends. Roommates of friends of friends. Exes. Crushes. Ex-flings. Acquaintances you always, always see out dancing but never actually meet. They’re all here, goddammit, and there’s nowhere to hide—there’s an awkward encounter waiting to ambush you in every room.
Let’s see how cute it is in 10 or 15 years…
[same commenter, a few minutes later]
So many ifs
Autostraddle commenters! Autostraddle readers! THE PERSON LOOKING AT THIS RIGHT NOW, BASICALLY.
I’m thankful for my girlfriend’s tongue. Because, yes.
Introducing the Lazy Femme Tee! It comes in two colors and women’s sizing, and it’s available now in the Autostraddle Store.
I know there’s something completely uncool about my approach here, but that’s also part of growing up in small towns. Those gender expectations are so hard-wired, so unquestionable that even buzzing your head and wearing men’s clothes isn’t enough to get you much more than looks of sympathy and once, insultingly, an offer to go clothes shopping together. Fuck you, well-meaning coworker.
Those girls! Carrying on like that! They had to be punished! I told them! They shouldn’t kiss, hug like that with the boys! They wouldn’t listen to me! Wouldn’t listen! Those girls! Those stupid girls!… I never meant to do any of this! It just came over me and I couldn’t hold it back.
In conclusion, don’t believe everything Dr. Gerulf Rieger tells you.
