Dear Queer Diary: Notes from The Road
Sometimes, my dear queer diarists, you are fortunate enough to go on a vacation. These occasions, I know, are sadly few and far between. Even fewer and far betweener are the occasions on which we are cast adrift without the comforting cocoon of the internet — clutching our journals hopefully and praying that we find our ways without the help of our friend Google maps.
Such have been the last few…
Rebel Girls: The Writing That Made A Movement (Or A Bunch of Feminism’s Primary Sources)
There are these two words that come up in women’s studies all the time: reading and writing. They’re kind of the core values of an interdisciplinary major based in theory and personal essays — you need to be able to read someone else’s and write your own. Women’s Studies is an academic field, which has run into a fair share of criticism for that very fact over time. Yes, we’re all words. Yes,…
Liquor In The Barrel: A Barrel-Aged Manhattan
For a while there, the fashion was adding bacon to cocktails. As I am a vegetarian and didn’t even much like bacon when I wasn’t, I am super glad to see that fashion replaced by barrel-aging a cocktail. The nice part is you can barrel-age a wide variety of things, and at home too! If you ask people what their favorites are, a few come up repeatedly: Negronis, Vieux Carres and Manhattans. I’ve…
“Team Girl Comic Issue 10″ Brings Together Over 20 Women Comic Creators
by rory midhani
Team Girl Comic Issue 10 starts with a short comic by Gill Hatcher and Claire Yvette (the editors) telling the story of how Team Girl Comiccame to be. According to the legend, it all started a long, long time ago (2009) in a mystical and magical kingdom (Glasgow) when Hatcher was selling her DIY comics and noticed the lack of other women making comics. She soon gathered other…
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Will Sext You The Correct Number Of Kisses
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Welcome to NSFW Sunday!
+ Happy International Strap-On Week! Wanna buy one?
+ The sex toy revolution will be crowd sourced:
“Despite the more than $15 billion sex toy industry, investors are scared to touch sex toys. ‘Developing hardware requires a lot of capital — but traditional sources of funding … aren’t always enthusiastic…
Programming Things 101: Hello Queer World!
Hi Queermos! I’m Intern Chloe, I’m a software engineer at a large tech company, and I want to teach you things about programming computers! Programming is one of my top three favorite activities, after eating pasta and responding to Autostraddle tech support requests. Hopefully you might want to program computers too, because there’s a ton of job growth in I.T., and while there are some pretty…
Saturday Morning Cartoons: The Party
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!
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Anna’s next comic will drink your cooking bourbon on July…
Rhymes with Witches: Drew Barrymore in 90′s Cult Classic, “Poison Ivy”
I have to be honest. I had never watched the 1992 cult classic Poison Ivy until last night. I know! And even stranger, I thought about watching it through the suggestion of my favorite sad crooner and self-proclaimed “gangsta Nancy Sinatra,” Lana Del Rey. And by suggestion I mean I was obsessively listening to her new album Ultraviolence where she mentions being called “poison ivy” in the title…
FRIDAY (.gif) OPEN THREAD: Your Relationship Status
Hello genderfriends and ladlespoons (yup, totally stole it from Cameron, who is a genius)! It is Friday! Congrats to those who have Monday-Friday jobs and made it through the week. To everyone who has to work this weekend, hopefully your job is fun! But no matter what you’re up to this weekend, it’s time for the Friday Open Thread. The post where you post your thingz and probably a bunch of…
Brittani’s Video Party: Black Women are Disappointed with OK Go
Ping Master General, Chloe Howl is back with a new video for “Disappointed.” The LA Derby Dollsare in the video which is great since I’ve recently discovered that maybe my type is “derby girl” but who REALLY knows. We’re all learning about ourselves together, isn’t it grand. Anyway, this video is not nearly as gay as I personally would have preferred (I prefer 100%) but I think you’ll enjoy it…
Notes From A Queer Engineer: All Tesla’s Electric Car Patents Are Belong To You
Header by Rory Midhani
In a dramatic move last week, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk announced that the electric car company is opening up its patents for use by other manufacturers. Breaking the news online in a blog post titled “All Our Patent Are Belong To You,” Musk wrote,
Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling…
Fool’s Journey: Create Your Own Tarot Spread
You don’t have to be an experienced tarot reader to create your own spreads — in fact, I think it’s good to practice creating your own spreads right at the start of your tarot journey.
Crafting spreads builds confidence and helps you to remember that you’re learning tarot your way, nobody else’s. Plus it means you can always come up with your own special approach to all those crazy-ass questions…
Lumberjanes #3 Has Adventure, Math and Science and Logic To The Max!
by rory midhani
In Issue #3 of Lumberjanes, we pick up right where we left off last issue, with Mal, Jo, April, Molly and Ripley lost in a cave after falling down a wild and winding hole deep underground. Clearly, the only way they can go is forward, so on they go, deep into the weird underground temple that seems to be underneath their camp. Although they say there wasn’t a chapter on creepy…
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Pretty Much Up For Anything
Feature image of Rafaela Avidago via nextdoormodel.com.
Welcome to NSFW Sunday!
+ Lindsay King-Miller answers questions about intrusive exes, being married to a man and being not straight, being in love with your boss and what to do when the friend you’re secretly in love with is dating someone else:
“If at all possible, give yourself some space from this girl. I know you’re in…
Bout of Nostalgia: Chrono Trigger Makes Us All Heroes
Grab your consoles and handheld gadgets, we’re traveling back in time!
Chrono Trigger was released in 1995, and it forever changed the future of role-playing games. Most fans and awards recognize its multi-era storyline, nuanced side quests, humor, gorgeous music, memorable NPCs and an incredibly diverse set of playable characters. It’s so canonical, that Square / Square Enix has released it for…
