rebel girls

rebel girls

regular

lgbt history

Rebel Girls: 10 Historical Women Who Went on Sick Adventures

These 10 women traversed lands, set records, and embraced adventure. We should know their names!

Carmen —

Sep 2, 2015

beyonce

broad city

friendship

Rebel Girls: 10 Feminist Gal Pals Who Made This World a More Awesome Place Together

As a follow-up to the time I used “gal pals” sarcastically and taught you all about the queer suffragists, and in honor of Gal Pal Week, this week’s Rebel Girls…

Carmen —

Aug 5, 2015

audre lorde

barbara smith

lgbt history

Rebel Girls: This Is What A Lavender Menace Looks Like

By the time straight women of the second wave had caught up to the times, queer women had already f*cked up their movement — and built one all their own.

Carmen —

Jul 22, 2015

#blacklivesmatter

feminism

community

Rebel Girls: 20 Autostraddle Community Members Who Are Changing the World

Documentary films. Policy initiatives. Direct action. These 20 activists are doing it all to save the world — and they’re Autostraddle readers just like you!

Carmen —

Jul 11, 2015

feminism

rebel girls

lgbt history

Rebel Girls: The 5 Moments in Feminist History That Jump-Started The Second Wave

The nearly half a decade that passed between the first and second waves of feminism was a period of great transition for what hadn’t even yet been named the “feminist…

Carmen —

Jun 24, 2015

#affiliatemarketing

rebel girls

holigays

Rebel Girls: 10 Queer or Otherwise Badass Indie Feminist Retailers You Should Support

Somewhere, deep in the woods of the wild Internet, there are queer or otherwise totally badass indie feminist retailers tryin’ to turn a buck and maybe turn the tides of…

Carmen —

Jun 10, 2015

a-camp

a-camp spring 2015

lgbt history

Rebel Girls: It’s Time For Queer Herstory Trivia Night!

Time for a pop quiz! JK, it’s more like trivia night.

Carmen —

May 27, 2015

feminism

herstory in our pants

lgbt history

Rebel Girls: Meet (Some Of) the Gal Pals of the Suffrage Movement

We’ve broadly written off intense and deep relationships between these fearless suffrage leaders as “friendships” for years, but it’s worth considering what we’re erasing when we do.

Carmen —

May 13, 2015

feminism

LGBT history

lgbt history

Rebel Girls: 7 Suffragists You Probably Didn’t Learn About in School

I wanted to take today’s lesson as an opportunity to totally school you on the suffrage comrades they didn’t teach you about in school, but there’s a ton, so I…

Carmen —

Apr 29, 2015

bisexuality

herstory spotlight

lgbt history

Rebel Girls: Bessie Smith Was a Queer Pioneer, and We’re Finally Gonna Get to Talk About It

When HBO’s Bessie premieres May 16 to bring the Empress of Jazz back to life, nobody will be skirting the issue of Bessie Smith’s bisexuality.

Carmen —

Apr 1, 2015

rebel girls

regular

lgbt history

Rebel Girls: Women Who Have Been On the Money Since Time Immemorial

The campaigns to get women on American and Canadian currency got me thinking: who are the women who have been on the money? What are their stories? Do they have…

Carmen —

Mar 18, 2015

feminism

harlem renaissance

book lists

Rebel Girls: Consider This Your Women’s Herstory Month Syllabus

I want us to embark on some serious herstorical journeys through time, but I simply cannot condense herstory into one post, so I’m gonna condense everyone else’s pieces, books, movies,…

Carmen —

Mar 4, 2015