Results for: comics
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As a Trans Woman Getting Into Stand-Up Comedy, Can I Avoid Jokes About My Identity?
My greatest fear in doing comedy is being a hack.
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Untethered: The Lesbians of Shinjuku Ni-chōme, Tokyo
I found a lot of comfort in a sapphic space, even on the other side of the world, and I even found some friends.
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Untethered: I Can’t Stop Talking About Money
It feels like everyone talks and does not talk about money, especially now, especially while we wade knee-deep through inflation that I believe is not so much inflation but rather price-gouging.
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My Sci-Fi Girl Summer, Explained
It was a lot like coming out later in life, but this time instead of going to a bunch of lesbian parties and hooking up with strangers, I’m staying up until 4 a.m. Googling shit like “how is Loki still alive.”
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Investigating the Bionicle-to-Trans Pipeline
More than a few fans I spoke with did say that if it weren’t for Bionicle they may not have come to understand their gender when they did.
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Rethinking the Power of Movement, One Barbell at a Time
Up until a few months ago, I never felt very strong. I was a fat kid who grew into a fat teenager, and now I’m a fat adult.
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Jesus Would Have Found the Whole Thing Comical
“We took off on our bikes with the intention of shoplifting all the proper ingredients to make homely ham sandwiches.”
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I’m Coming Out as an Anti-Zionist Jew
Going viral holding a sign that reads “My grandpa didn’t survive Auschwitz to bomb Gaza,” is not how I planned to start a conversation with my family condemning Israel’s actions against the Palestinian people. I’m not the only Jewish person who has long chosen to self-silence rather than stand with my values, but it’s not too late for other Jewish people to join me. The moment for Jewish-Palestinian solidarity is now.
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“Nevada” and the Multiverse of Sadness
This is how it feels to come to art too late. It’s no longer an experience of immediate connection, but one of processing, of rewriting.
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I’m Finally Taking Up Space In My Own Place
On putting the safe decorations in the closet and letting my home reach its full gay potential. On taking up space in my own space.
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You Don’t Always Transition Once
Transitioning is stigmatized as betraying our assigned gender. Sometimes, though, it takes two betrayals to get where we need to be.
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Brown, Queer, Sad, Strange, and a Skilled Practitioner of Each
I found a different self slowly, learned to exist as if with many different goggles on at once. Always speaking from my mother’s kitchen in the Silicon Valley and, at the same time, my grandmother’s crowded living room in Punjab. In these years, I would feel the sharpness of many kinds of difference, marginalization. But when I looked down at myself for signs of why I felt so other, all I would find was the color of my hands.
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How We Feel About Being Fat
A reader requested a roundtable where Autostraddle’s fat staff talk about how fatness, diet culture, and body positivity, relate to our queerness, identity, and gender. We aim to please, so here we are!
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A Birthday Party No One Else Was Invited To
The first time someone described Casey as having “stalkerish” tendencies, I defended her. For the most part though, I didn’t talk about it.
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How to Make a Meme: A Tutorial With Instagram Lesbian Superstar @xenaworrierprincess
Maddy Court, the creator behind Instagram lesbian meme sensation @xenaworrierprincess, teaches us how to make a meme and shares her own meme origin story.
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Monday Roundtable: The Lifelong Journeys of Our Beloved Childhood Stuffed Animals
“I had two stuffed animal bear friends as a child. Pretty tight crew, I know, but two bears was enough as I also had an imaginary friend who was an adult woman that I had to entertain. I was only one child!”
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Toward an Understanding of Whether Straight Fanfiction Exists: A Study
Straight fanfiction? I don’t know her.
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What We Mean When We Say “Femme”: A Roundtable
We now live in a world where it is totally possible to claim the same word as someone else and completely disagree on what the word means.
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My Virtual Brunch With Dolly Parton
“Dear Editor: You are cordially invited to have brunch with country music icon Dolly Parton this Sunday, August 7th.”
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17 Incredible Autostraddle Personal Essays By Trans Women
This post is 25% Mey Rude Appreciation Club and 75% “personal essays by trans women oh my gosh how do I pick only 16.” (I picked 17.)