My brother just told me my three year old niece has been saying “girls can only marry boys” and stuff so he said “you know aunt Dani likes girls!” And she spit out her juice and screamed “WHAT?!”
A man: I looked at a pussy once and never recovered
A dyke: I looked at a pussy and wrote ten thousands lines of an ode to the color. I reveled in the taste, the fragrance, the folds! It was like velvet to me, and my fingers trembled.
“The Columbia kids are all rich and spoiled!”
I’m gonna hold your hand when I say this: it’s goood that kids that come from privilege are getting involved in movements. Would you rather them be politically inactive and hoard their wealth?!
Janelle Monae is an interesting case study because they made music in a suit for a decade. Then when they brought the titties out, here come the critics that never followed their career before talking about “a black woman has to take her clothes off to sell records”
White queer tinder bios be like:
Sage, 27
Stinky gremlin boi. Virgo/cancer/sag. Looking for dates to the cemetery with vegan brunch. Let me repeat, I stink, I do not shower. ACAB
There’s a subsection of the internet that is wlw and sapphic that think lesbian sex is snuggling and holding hands and I can’t relate because I’m a degenerate apparently
Every Dr. Oz tweet about Pittsburgh is like
"What I love about this city is the green grass, the blue skies, the crisp, clean rivers, the friendly people."
If you're a queer poet of color, I want to know about your book coming out this year so I can write about it for
@autostraddle
. Let me know about your collection!
Today was technically my last day at autostraddle, though you may have noticed I haven’t written anything since May. After the subject editor positions were eliminated, I wanted to give senior leadership a chance to explain their decision
This kind of attitude is what puts sex workers in danger. Seeing a sw is perfectly normal. Shaming anyone for doing it is so gross and boring like honey get a grip
Literally no one has sex with sex workers... like that not something normal people do, it’s not normal! I mean how many men do you know frequent sex workers? Yet from the way this guy talks about it, it seems like he makes a habit of it!
Fetterman is a perfect example of American individualism like, how are we supposed to care about his battle with depression while he’s actively supporting a genocide
If you don’t feel pressure to put full body pics or an “im fat” disclaimer on your dating profile so no one accuses you of tricking them when you meet in person? I doubt you know the experience of a fat person
Not to be a fan but I think it’s so cool MUNA exists. Growing up queer and having like the fake Russian lesbians and Katy Perry’s I Kissed a Girl…we used to be starving! Now we got a group of queer pop stars making bangers
Fat people don’t have to be philanthropic to deserve decency but it’s so wild to me how Lizzo appears to be a person who does kind shit all the time and people still just hate her, all because she’s fat.
Y’all talking about “therapists are just there to tell you what you want to hear” must not have ever been through trauma therapy before lol. Therapy made me contend with all the shit I didn’t want to hear, all the stuff I didn’t want to believe about myself and other people.
Picture it: you’re at the OBGYN. You’ve just had a Pap smear. A clinical finger in the vag. As you’re leaving music plays. The song? Fast Car by Tracy Chapman
at no point in the pandemic have we been honest about the fact that no one should be expected to operate at 100% during this. I find it very weird that everyone's just like "i know thousands of people have died but its back to business baby"
As a lifelong Pittsburgher: that Shakespeare Giant Eagle is not in Shadyside and I think it’s funny and a sign of the times that publications are saying it is
Been writing about Black Pittsburgh for a year at CP and I just got my first "black? what about WHITE people?" email. I've worked so hard for this moment!
Are there any lit places looking for columnist right now? For context I have a full portfolio of writing about fatness, blackness, food, music, queerness, addiction/recovery and more.
Hate me if you want but if you see a job post for writers or whatever at Autostraddle and you jump at the chance to replace people that were fired or those of us who quit: please reconsider.
Two college students reached out to interview me about Anatomy of a Mango for their women’s studies class and I’m trying to find out who’s the gay one that reads autostraddle
Realistically I know it probably sucked to be a latchkey kid, but having a parent who was hyper involved in every aspect of your life so that you could never escape them? Terrible!
A lot of people are retweeting this saying it’s common sense but like…for those of us raised in abusive households it’s a revelation because when we confronted our abusers we were met with “…well I loved you the best I could”
Hi if you’re queer and have a poetry collection coming out in 2023 please email me deets, I’d love to review for
@autostraddle
dani @ Autostraddle dot com
Wasn’t gonna talk about this on here but fuck it: I wrote this. In my original draft I mention the actor’s activism and name Israel’s violence in Palestine. The editor cut that part out tho and replaced it with the passive “war in Gaza” phrasing.
I don’t miss anything about office culture but I certainly don’t miss endless diet talk, women eating lean cuisines and saying they are “bad” for having a donut
Any writer who has a huge platform and isn’t using it to call for a ceasefire at the very least is failing at the only real purpose of writing which is using language to facilitate change
Tbh I think most Best of Pittsburgh voters are white Gen X Yinzers who still think Potato Patch fries are the best money can buy. The city’s food scene has definite gems but most of those gems are a little too “ethnic” for the average yinzer if you know what I mean
I wish queer women understood that the only way to get through your fear of flirting with women is to…flirt with women.
Your heart can be in your throat the whole time but you gotta make that first step
I celebrated my birthday in Asheville and while I was wearing this my Lyft driver was a black queer woman and we geeked out about Janelle Monae the whole ride. Also today is my birthday 🥳