Results for: love is a lie
-
Porkchop’s Odyssey: On Fatness, Transness, and Pants
This snapshot sits on a shelf in the back of my mind. I keep it in an album called “euphoria.” It includes moments – me in my first bowtie at my college graduation, me on my wedding day, me in the mountains with my first jean jacket. In each, I am myself.
-
How To Change Your Hair Dramatically After a Breakup
Seize control of your image! Be hot as a form of revenge! Do it for you! Just feel good about something in a time when it’s so easy to feel bad about everything!
-
Five Outfits for Being the Main Character in a Lesbian Romantic Comedy
This lead is sexy, vibrant, maybe a little clumsy, and heartwarming. If you don’t fall in love with her, you definitely want to be her.
-
AM/PM: A Skincare Routine For the Lazy Yet Vain
I love a great compliment and I refuse to put in too much effort to get them.
-
Style Thief: How to Dress Like Weird Barbie, the Most Lesbian of Barbies
How much pink is too much pink for one outfit, you may ask? Infinity.
-
Obsessed: Abercrombie and Fitch’s Bleak “American Dream” and Its Very Bizarre Quarterly Magalog
Inspired by Netflix’s “White Hot: Abercrombie & Fitch,” a journey into the brand’s appalling history, the super-weird A&F Quarterly (and its lesbian wedding!), the Look Policy handbook, an apparent comeback and more.
-
The Most Baffling Fashion Choices I Made When I Was 13
I’ve rounded up some of the most, uhhh, creative? style choices I made at 13 and reimagined them as fashion spreads in a clearly VERY high budget teen magazine of my own making.
-
Puberty, Gym Class & Aeropostale — Fat Femmes On Their Childhood Style
“It sounds like we were all told by others that we were too big as children — rather than actually feeling that way ourselves?”
-
So You Want To Have a Meet Cute
In honor of Valentine’s Day, here are some mini fic romances alongside fashion recs.
-
15 Robes for Gay Divorcées
Although not everyone is lucky enough to be a hot gay divorceé (yet! Life is long, stay positive!) everyone can get into the staple of the gay divorceé wardrobe: the robe.
-
The Allure of Chola Femininity
This is precisely what I admire about cholas, and what I wanted to emulate for myself as a femme. These women were highly feminine, but not the dainty kind, the kind that has lived a thousand years.
-
Basic Butch Style: The Breakup
Newly single? Read this first.
-
25 Soft Pants for Loungewearing All Over The House
Let’s keep it casual.
-
86 Truly Innovative Ways You Gays Described Your Haircuts
“Occasionally I wake up looking like a teen heartthrob on the cover of Tiger Beat circa 1997, like a Home Improvement-era Jonathan Taylor Thomas”
-
Bi-Suited
With the golden age of women’s red-carpet suiting upon us, who is queer fashion for?
-
Monday Roundtable: The Jewelry We Wear Every Day
“My favorite thing in the world is when people ask if it’s a mood ring so I can say yes.”
-
Be Hotter Than the Beach Itself in These 24 Plus-Size Swimsuits
This is a collection of some of the cutest, trendiest swimsuits available this season in multiple style categories and cut options in each to cater to different body types. I’ll also be showing off some of my favorite suits!
-
Roundtable: The Haircut That Changed It All
In tribute to Lena Waithe, a few Autostraddle staffers got together to share the moment when they decided to cut their hair short.
-
Wedding Looks for Andro-Femme Leaning Folks
A reader asked for some wedding looks for a person with an androgynous/femme aesthetic that they could wear to a straight family member’s wedding and I immediately asked to make a style guide because getting fancy for grandma while still feeling like myself is one of my favorite things to do.
-
Too Cool for School: Your Pre-Fall Style Guide
(Oprah voice) laaaayeriiiiing!