Saturday Morning Cartoons: Hair
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 compliment your ALH on April 12th.
Rhymes With Witches: The Virgin/Whore Dichotomy in “Saved!”
I’ve always had a bit of a thing for bad girls, and I don’t think I’m alone on this one. Who doesn’t love gals with switchblades hidden in their beehives, girls with killer smirks who drink the tears of their enemies, and ladies that enact revenge without smearing their lipstick? And why do we love them? Is it the clothes, the hair, the make-up? Or is it more about attitude, manipulation, and…
Dear Queer Diary: It’s Our Very Own International Handwriting Day!
It is a truth universally acknowledged that I have extremely small handwriting. If I had a dollar for every time one of my teachers asked me if I was going to turn in a magnifying glass with my in-class essay, I would be living in a historical home in the British isles, writing biweekly checks to the editors of Autostraddle. If college-ruled paper is the one with the smaller lines, I need…
Brittani’s Video Party: Obama Kisses 14 Strangers Backstage
Lena Dunham hosted SNL and the most delightful thing to come out out of that might have been this backstage video. I regret that we never got to hear Kate McKinnon‘s relationship history but we did get a line of her Beyoncé impression. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP2cJ9x1Q1o Zach Galifianakis’s awkward yet hilarious interview series, Between Two Ferns,had its highest…
Notes From A Queer Engineer: My Top Five Beautiful Things in Science
1. FractalsAlthough self-similar patterns have been around forever, the term “fractal” wasn’t coined until 1975. Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot created the word from the Latin fractus, meaning fragmented and irregular. Appropriately, fractals are non-regular geometric shapes…
“Marceline and The Scream Queens” is Punk Rock and Precious
Whenever I’ve watched Adventure Time I’ve wished that the show featured more of my three favorite characters: Marceline the vampire, Princess Bubblegum and Lumpy Space Princess. Thankfully, two of those wishes were granted when I read the trade paperback of Adventure Time Presents Marceline and the Scream Queens. Marceline and The Scream Queens was a mini-series put out by Boom!…
Star Trek N00b, Episode 14: The Conscience of the King (Here There Be Shakespeare)
Get out your ale and bodkins and settle down for some Shakespeare, because this episode is pretty much a Star Trek remix of Hamlet and Macbeth. Lit nerds, I’ll be sure to call out the plays and passages for ya in this one. As always, watch along here.
And one cried, “Murder!”We open on a scene from Macbeth (Act 2, Scene 2), right after King Duncan’s death. While the…
More Than Words: Coming Out Party
If you’re reading this website, chances are someone, at some point, has asked you how you came out. And maybe you’ve told them. Maybe you’ve shared the story with a close friend as part of the bonding process. Maybe you wrote it down in our open thread. Maybe you reenacted it in front of a campfire to howling applause. Coming out — and its supposed opposite, being in the closet — are major plot…
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Will Smile And Hand You Her Underpants
Feature image via model Aviva by Amamak Photography.
Welcome to NSFW Sunday!
+ Cinekink, a sex- and kink-positive film festival, is now in its eleventh year:
“It’s inspiring that the general consensus and objective of the festival is to challenge the mainstream: many of the films on the line-up are either made by or feature gay, lesbian and bi people, queer/non-binary/trans* people,…
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Roots and Rugelach
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 Sarah!
Did You Ever Catch Them All? This Is a 90′s Pokémon Nostalgia-fest
By show of virtual hands, who here can name all 151 original Pokémon? Or could at one time? Is it due to the Pokémon rap? Or did you collect the trading cards so vigorously that you had all 151 and put them in sleeves in a binder in Pokédex order and then memorized them faithfully until you could rattle off all 151 names in that order? Uh. Not that I did. Or anything.
Okay, yes I did. Me and my…
#AutoAri: These Real World Questions Are Getting Banged By A Big, Bad Wolf
This week on The Real World: Ex-Plosion, Ari was really tired of all the bullshit.
This episode is focused almost entirely around shitty straight people and their shitty problems: Jay won’t commit, Brian is a total man-diva piece of human garbage, etc. etc.
In the midst of all of this, however, there was wisdom.
And not wisdom.
At the very least, let’s put it this way: things got weird.
The…
Lez Liberty Lit #41: Not Computer Generated
by carolyn & riese
Books! They are really great. You just won’t believe how great they are. You may think that the Internet’s great, but that’s just peanuts compared to books. In Lez Liberty Lit, we talk about literary shit that’s happening that you should probably care about. The name “Liberty Lit” was inspired by the short-lived literary…
Wilder Hungers: Tropical March Madness and Spicy Tofu Kimchi Stew
Happy March!
Sincere apologies for my absence. I was super sick, then I went on vacation to Puerto Rico, then I came back and got super sick again. My body is mostly just mad at me for taking 48 hour tropical vacations and then ripping it all way to come back to the land of snow and snot. ANYWAY, without further ado, welcome to Wilder Hungers tropical edition! Like I said I just came back from…
Dear Queer Diary: Ol’ Book O’ Feelings Playlist
When I was an angsty teen, there was nothing I loved more than listening to mix CDs on my discwoman and writing in my journal. Today, I would like to celebrate the union of those two passions with a specially made playlist. But first, permit me another word on my youthful quirks.
Back then, my preferred playlist-listening location was a somewhat worn yellow armchair, where I would sit with my…
