Results for: the real l word
-
The Autostraddle Insider Issue 101: February 2023
Can we open it with “The Paris Review can blow us” and then just like…not explain?
-
“A Darker Wilderness” Carves a Space for Blackness in Nature
I held these words close as I walked through my neighborhood in a town named after perhaps the most famous colonizer in the Americas.
-
The Autostraddle Insider Issue 100: January 2023
“what if autostraddle just became a mariah carey fansite”
-
The Autostraddle Insider Issue 98: November 2022
“no one gives you a free personal pan pizza when you do something you really, really don’t want to do! we live in a crumbling society”
-
Mairead Sullivan’s “Lesbian Death” Tells Us Why the L Isn’t Disappearing
Mairead Sullivan’s new book, Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer explores and aims to disrupt our contemporary anxieties around the disappearance of the term “lesbian” as an identity, political standpoint, and theoretical concept.
-
How to Finger Your Partner When You Have Chronic Pain in Your Hands
A few minor adjustments can make fingering easier, even when chronic pain is cramping your style.
-
The Autostraddle Insider Issue 102: March 2023
CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES
-
The Autostraddle Insider Issue 103: April 2023
“everyone act medium”
-
10 Gay Halloween Costumes for Your Dog
Halloween: I actually think it might be the gayest night of the year.
-
The Autostraddle Insider Issue 97: October 2022
“Extremely weird that there are two queer media subjects named TAR right now.”
-
Holigay Gift Guide: Queer Cookbooks for Every Home Chef on Your Shopping List
If you’re going to buy cookbooks for your friends and family, why not buy them queer cookbooks and put money in the pockets of queer chefs?
-
The Autostraddle Insider Issue 99: December 2022
Happy haunted holigays!
-
The Need for Trans Girl Trash
If media that’s traditionally targeted at women, whether they are queer or not, isn’t making a space for the girls like me, then where exactly are we expected to look for entertainment that keeps us in mind?
-
65 of the Best Queer Books of 2023
Particularly impressive categories this year include memoir/biography, horror — queer and trans horror writers are appropriately giving us their all these days — and comics.
-
The Autostraddle Insider Issue 92: May 2022
“ANYWAY YEAH come get a scorpion!”
-
Things I’ve Never Asked Carmen About Growing Up in a Theater Family, Her Dating Habits, and More!
We talk tattoos, 9/11 and Carmen’s high school activism, spirituality, what L Word character Carmen is most like, being a die-hard femme and more!
-
114 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Your Way Spring 2023
New Samantha Irby! New Leah Johnson! Get excited for these upcoming LGBTQ+ and feminist book releases, and support queer authors this spring.
-
Chris Belcher on “Pretty Baby,” Dungeon Dynamics, and the Expansiveness of Queer Sex
“I always envisioned this book as something that would allow me to talk about how I got to know masculinity as an adult through sex work and reflect back on how I came to know masculinity from the time I was younger.”
-
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 86, November 2021
What terrible advice would you give your 16-year-old self just to see what kind of hell you could unleash on the world?
-
“The Fall of the House of Usher”: Who All’s Gay Here? Almost Everyone
For the next eight days, we’re obsessively recapping and analyzing every episode of the new Mike Flanagan Netflix horror series The Fall of the House of Usher, which yes, is VERY QUEER.