The Most Wonderful Time Of Year: Holigay Meet-Up Season!
It’s the most wonderful time of year so let’s spend it with our chosen family!
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Balancing Act
Work AND leave my house? Eat well AND go to bed on time? Hang out with other people AND also myself? How do you even do that? (No really, I’m actually asking you.)
Read A F*cking Book Club: Talking with Ariel Gore About “We Were Witches”
We’re discussing We Were Witches and sharing a brilliant interview with author Ariel Gore. Come join Autostraddle Book Club – the comments are wide open and we wanna hear everything you’ve got to say about this book.
The Comment Awards Are So Mommi Right Now
“Can confirm bisexuality to be even more luxurious than a fancy tin can.”
Friendsgiving Challenge #2: A Dessert You Can Also Eat for Breakfast
Vegetarian with allergies to nuts, coconuts, and sesame seeds? Well Julia Turshen has a delicious warm dessert (or breakfast!) for you!
The Mammalian Dive Reflex
I changed. But it was a gradual process, in the way a forest becomes stone. Petrified forest of a body.
S.H.E. Episode VII: Night And Day
“What a great city.”
Exploring the Messy, Imperfect Joy of Queer Foster-to-Adopt Parenting
“And then she told us there was another child — a baby — at a nearby hospital. Were we interested? We said yes even though we had a thousand questions and just as many concerns (why was he in the hospital? Where were his birth parents? Who was holding him when he cried?). That baby turned out to be our son.”
Friendsgiving Challenge #1: Real Friendship is Working Around Everyone’s Dietary Restrictions
Kyle’s created a full Friendsgiving menu that accommodates about a dozen dietary restrictions, and she’s used an impressive graphing system to make it happen.
Watch Sara Ramirez Butch It Up In Her First Appearance On “Madam Secretary”
This Sunday is the day Kat Sandoval swaggers onto your teevee!
Holigay Gift Guide: The World of Queer Geekery
There are lots of great things about being a queer nerd, but maybe the best is that you get to be friends with other queer nerds. They’re really the best people. And they make great merch.
Let’s Decant With This Decanter, It’ll Be So Fancy
How to clean your decanter. Why you might use a decanter. Which decanters you should expressly not use.
PHOTO GALLERY: Here Are Your Toasty, Tasty Fall Fashion Looks!
‘Tis the season to get cute and cozy.
Michigan Lesbian Lives Through “American Horror Story: Cult,” But Also Hope Dies, So
What self-respecting lesbian turns down a chance to sit in the same room as Rachel Maddow or Lana Winters?
Notes From a Queer Engineer: Dinosaur Footprints, the Mathematical Joy of Smarties and More
“That noise you hear is very excited science-y squealing.”
Pop Culture Fix: Anna Paquin Stands with Ellen Page Against X-Men Director Brett Ratner
Plus: queer women are working hard not to become collateral damage as men in Hollywood fall like dominoes to sexual assault stories, women and POC directed more TV than ever this year, these adorable lesbian hockey players and their baby, and news on The Handmaid’s Tale’s return.
Oh, Hey! It’s Alyssa #34: Talking It Out
I know this will come as a shock, but I don’t do well with emotional conflict.
No Filter: Local Dog Spooned by Samira Wiley
Also, Gaby Dunn meets a horse and Demi Lovato is having a swell time.
Holigay Gift Guide: Artsy and Handcrafted Items Made by Women and Queer People
These are all gifts made by women and queer people, each one personally hand-crafted or designed, that you can gift to the discerning artist types in your life.
Musicals Won’t Save the World but “The Prom” Is Gonna Try Anyway
“The Prom” is a new musical and it’s about lesbians and we need to talk about it right now.