44 Sweet and Savory Ways to Eat Coconut Immediately
This is a coconut-macaroon-free zone.
Nicki Minaj Calls Miley Out, Kanye West Announces Presidential Run and More MTV VMAs Revelations
Taylor and Nicki performed together, Nicki gets real about Miley, Kanye dissed award shows at an award show and Amber Rose unveiled a radically feminist new look at this year’s VMAs.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Wants To Play
How to squirt, how to sext like it’s 1615, the Magic Wand throughout art history and so much more!
Sunday Funday Just Got Blessed By The Pope
The pope blessed a lesbian, Los Angeles is getting serious about gender parity, marriage equality is happening for real in Ireland, and also a tiny dog being a farmhand. AND MORE!
The Comment Awards Are Taking A Rocket Into Safe Space
Ellen Page vs the GOP, end summer cocktails and even more gal pal-ing!
I’m Obsessed With Slam City Oracles and You Will Be Too
Slam City Oracles is a local two-player computer game that let’s you come in like a wrecking ball. It’ll be out on September 1st—here’s a sneak peak and a review.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Loose Morals
In which Scout and Andy disagree.
This Is How We Do It: Drying and Preserving Herbs
How to preserve that fresh goodness in your garden or on your windowsill to keep enjoying it all year long.
Fan Fiction Friday: 15 Multi-Fandom Love Stories Featuring Queer Women of Color
Orange Is the New Black, The Fosters, Sense8, Pretty Little Liars, Glee, and more!
Things I Read That I Love #183: Being Comfortable Being Uncomfortable Is A Very Effective Way To Be A Human
Topics include needing diverse books, prison food, Tinder As Video Game, the scam of the Art Academy of San Francisco, a triple murder in Florida, sorority life and so much more.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Dream On, Dream Weaver
Grab a pillow and cuddle up with me and tell me about your wildest, weirdest, silliest, most terrifying dreams! I’ll tell you what it all means according to my dream dictionary.
Cool-Down Cocktails: 3 Summer Drinks To Say Farewell To Summer With
I went to visit my parents in Tennessee recently and as soon as I walked out of the airport and was blasted with the heat of one thousand angry hair dryers, I remembered why I was a vampire as a teenager. So I did what any respectable adult would do — I went home and made myself a fancy ass cocktail.
Love & Canada: How Is This Wedding In A Week?!?
“Fuck flowers. Fuck everything. We’re ordering about a hundred LED twinkling lights and I’m gonna stick gold washi tape on ’em and sprinkle them everywhere and call it a night.”
Hidden Gems of Queer Lit: Rae Theodore’s “Leaving Normal: Adventures in Gender”
A smart and eloquent memoir about becoming butch, Leaving Normal: Adventures in Gender will resonate if you have a proud copy of Stone Butch Blues on your shelf, or listen to “Ring of Keys” from the Fun Home musical on repeat.
Daily Fix: New South Wales Education Minister Nixes High School Showing of “Gayby Baby” and More News
Kids in New South Wales won’t see Gayby Baby at school for Wear It Purple Day, Donald Trump kicks Jorge Ramos out of his press conference, women vote in Saudi Arabia, Walmart no longer selling assault weapons, and more.
Orange Is the New Black Episode 311 Recap: I Can Do Breaking Bad All By Myself
Piper and Alex break up, Pennsatucky breaks down, and Ms. Rosa makes a cameo!
Follow Your Arrow: Web Developer Cee on This Freelance Life
Autostraddle’s webmaster Cee Webster has been a freelance web developer for 15 years. Here, she shares her thoughts on freelance working, ‘winging it’, the challenges of juggling many projects, and the perks of working when you choose.
All of the Ultimate Back-To-School Advice for College-Bound Queers
There is literally no incorrect way to do college and Autostraddle staff are the proof.
Fool’s Journey: Barbara Moore Talks LGBTQ Tarot and What It’s Like to do Tarot Full-Time
“Barbara tells us about how she got started with tarot (pre-internet, y’all), how tarot informed her thinking about psychology and gender, and her upcoming course and retreat.”
A Trans Woman of Color Responds to the Trauma of “Tangerine”
“Why is it that trans women of color have to experience so much violence to remember that they have each other’s back?”