Saturday Morning Cartoons: Whiskey
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 Cameron!
Cameron’s next comic will live in your skull holes on July 12th.
Lez Liberty Lit #48: It’s Totally Okay To Read YA Novels, You Guys
Feature image via ejukfun.tumblr.com.
by carolyn & riese
Linguist Gretchen McCulloch discussed gendered pronouns, writing:
“In the late 18th century, grammarians started recommending that people use he as a gender nonspecific pronoun because they was ostensibly plural, as part of the grand tradition of awkwardly shoehorning English grammar into Latin which has caused many of your present…
4 Things Your Journal Has in Common With “Orange is the New Black”
In honor of the much-heralded return of Autostraddle’s favorite television show, allow me to share some ways in which your journal and Orange is the New Black are basically the same thing.
1. They are all the rage on Autostraddle.I assume you all noticed that there was a time earlier this week when approximately 70% of items on the Autostraddle home page were related in some way, shape, or form…
Comedy Crush: Sujata Day, Writer, Actress, App Lover
Sujata Day is a writer and actress that you might recognize from some of our favorite webseries, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl and Little Horribles. She’s also appeared on television with credits that include The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 7th Heaven, and Greek.
Joana Estrela Takes Us To Pride in Lithuania in her comic “Propaganda”
Just in time for pride month, I got a chance to read Joana Estrela‘s wonderful, touching and personal comic Propaganda. Propaganda tells the story of Estrela’s time working with the Lithuanian Gay League, helping to organize Baltic Pride and hanging out with friends in one of the most anti-gay countries in the European Union. Having the look and feel of a journal (in the absolute best way), this book really made me feel all the most cliché emotions of a book review: I laughed, I cried, I cheered and I got lost in the story.
BPM: Sylvan Esso And A Calimocho
Artist: Sylvan Esso
Cliffnotes: Bright, heady, easy
Same Aisle As: Feist, Alt-J, Tune-YardsI’m really excited to introduce you guys to Sylvan Esso, the product of an unusual pair of artists: Amelia Meath from Mountain Man (an a cappella threesome that focuses mainly on Appalachian folk a la The Wailin’ Jennys) and Nick Sanborn from Megafaun (indie folk-rock a la Justin Vernon). Together, they’ve…
32 Zucchini Recipes That Are More Exciting Than Zucchini Bread
Hello and welcome to this thing we’re doing where we help you figure out what you’re gonna put in your mouth this week. Some of these are recipes we’ve tried, some of these are recipes we’re looking forward to trying, all of them are fucking delicious. Tell us what you want to put in your piehole or suggest your own recipes, and next week we’ll check in and talk about which things we made, which…
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Wearing Fancy Underpants
Feature image via the nu project.
Welcome to NSFW Sunday!
+ Soly Poly addresses why being your own primary partner in non-monogamous relationships is harder, but also worth it:
“Why should anyone want to do relationships the hard way? Specifically, why might someone who desires long lasting, deeply intimate relationships prefer both solohood (retaining autonomy by…
Saturday Morning Cartoons Special Guest Comic, Straight From “Oh Joy Sex Toy”
Now normally we’ve got a rotation of four fabulous Autostraddle artists that make up Saturday Morning Cartoons, but we’re getting a little bananas here today — please welcome special guest cartoonist, creator of Dar and Oh Joy Sex Toy, Erika Moen! She’s offered up a republish from OJST (a thing we chatted with her aboutwhen it first hit the interwebz, by the way) that’s very Relevant To Our…
.gay And The Quiet War for Gay Internet
This is a story about top level domains or TLDs. The original six are the most popular: .com, .net, .org, .gov, .mil and .edu. And you know, there’s no set number of them — nowhere in any rulebook does it say “we shall only have x amount of top level domains.” You may have started to see a few more: Very, very recently more than 100 new gTLDs have been delegated to the Internet’s Root Zone. Root…
Liquor In The Netflix: Drinks for Orange Is The New Black
Okay, I’m attending a wedding this weekend and can’t watch the new season of Orange Is The New Black until Monday PLEASE NO ONE LEAVE SPOILERS IN THE COMMENTS ON THIS ARTICLE.
Ahem.
Now that’s out of the way. Hello, queermos! There is something all of us are doing today (all of us except me lalalalala) and we all know what it is. We are all watching the must see queer teevee that is Orange Is…
Rhymes with Witches: Orphan Black’s Clone Club
In an effort to step back from only talking about mean high school girls, I am venturing off to the next logical step: sci-fi. Not just any sci-fi, Canadian sci-fi. I don’t know why but every show I see come out of Canada looks like it was filmed in 2010, has character wardrobes taken straight out of Forever 21 racks and have at least 5 appearances from actors that were once in Degrassi. This…
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: “Orange Is the New Black” is Back, Drop Everything
This is a very special FOT because it’s going up at midnight. We didn’t think anyone, including us, would be able to contain their Orange is the New Black feelings for that long. I mean, did you see Tumblr when the East Coast realized the episodes don’t drop until 3am their time?
Now I know not everyone can pause everything else in their life to consume this second season as soon as it is…
Brittani’s Video Party: Kate McKinnon is Proud to Premiere Whatever This Is
Header by Rory Midhani
Kate McKinnon made an appearance on Conan in which she managed to bust out her Justin Bieber and Ellen impressions. Most importantly though — she’s searching for cats. That’s right, Kate McKinnon is on the prowl for cats. Someone help her out.
Whatever This Isfollows a couple of production assistants in New…
Dear Queer Diary: I’m Leaving On An Airplane
My grandparents kept track of their travels on an enormous, faded map of the country. It hung on the wall of their living room, where the map stretched from California, just above the lamp, across to Maine, which was positioned over the old brown sofa. My grandfather used red, green, and blue pens to mark the routes they had followed on their many cross-country drives, penning the date of the…
