Results for: representation
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Spaces & Places Community Gallery
As part of our three-week Spaces & Places series, we asked you if we could see your favorite spaces — and wow, did you deliver!
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Queer IRL: Autostraddle’s 2021 Pride Gallery!
“I am SO THANKFUL to be vaccinated and alive and gay as fuck.”
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In 2018, Lesbian and Bisexual TV Characters Did Even Better
Here’s your in-depth look at all the numbers on lesbian, bisexual and queer television representation in 2018. Spoiler alert: it got better?
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Letter From The Editor: The Outsiders Issue
These are all love stories.
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The Way in Which I Design Myself
“I was once a dancer, a synchronized swimmer, I played acrobat on thick, moss covered logs when I was at the lake, catching myself as I stumbled was a game. Now, I struggle to do eyeliner.”
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Autostraddle Exclusive: Bex Taylor-Klaus Bends Gender, Blends Styles in This Hot Photoshoot
“There are so many baby queers who depend on us to give them representation,” they said. “There’s so much in this world telling you to be something different and that’s so detrimental. I’d rather have kids see something and go, ‘It’s okay to be me.'”
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Nessie Is My Girlfriend: What Is it With Queer People and Cryptids?
“I started a Tumblr called Midwestern Monster Hunt dedicated to my adventures and to sharing stories of the weird, macabre, and strange. I began following blogs devoted to lovingly curating blurry photos dotted with red circles, grainy images of discs in the sky, or puns about Mothman. The more involved in cryptid and paranormal spaces I became, the more queer people seemed to pop up.”
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In 2017, Lesbian and Bisexual TV Characters Did Pretty OK, and That’s a Pretty Big Deal
2017 somehow turned out to be the best year ever for lesbian and bisexual women on television — but we’ve still got a ways to go.
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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Knows Sex Hair When She Sees It
What lesbian sex hair looks like, trans women keep getting banned on Tinder, stop worrying that she’ll text you back, what it feels like to get your nipples pierced and more.
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British Suffragette History: Come for the Democracy, Stay for the Lesbian Drama
If you’re wondering why it’s important to believe these suffragettes were sleeping with every other suffragette, it’s because they were. I made you a chart.
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QTPOC Roundtable: TV and Movie Characters That Made Us Feel Seen
“Jessi showed me that it was cool to focus on my ambitions and to form deep relationships with other girls instead of being boy-obsessed.”
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Origami Customs Crushes Capitalism, Makes Really Lovely Queer Lingerie
“Lingerie is the clothing that most relates to our intimate feelings about our bodies — it can reflect the way we see sensuality and sexuality, and also have the ability to transform our relationship with our bodies.”
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Why I Got Off the Pacific Crest Trail After 454 Miles Instead of Walking All the Way to Canada
I stopped hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in 2017 because of toxic masculinity and bro culture in the hiking community. It exists, it’s shitty, and it fucked me up.
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The Earth Is Not Doomed: A Weekend With Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs
I followed Kristin and Jenny at FlameCon, New York City’s gay comic con, as they spread their love for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the LGBTQ community to everyone they met.
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Trumpcare Is an Attack on Trans People of Color. Let’s Fight Like Hell Against It.
Defeating this bill is a matter of life and death to the transgender, gender non-conforming and intersex people of color who depend on Medicaid to survive.
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PHOTO GALLERY: Queer in the Stacks
It’s you and like 85 of your closest Autostraddle friends posing with your favorite books! Get in here!
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Dapper Crip: Queercrip Encounters with Fashion and Community
“Embracing accessibility begins with representation.” Here, Kay Ulanday Barrett, QueenTite and Jax Jacki Brown explore queer communities, accessibility, and who is deemed fashion-able.
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PHOTO GALLERY: Queer at Work
Your community gallery for May! Nearly 100 queers doing the work!
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In Conversation With Sarah Schulman: “They’re Being Taught That Control Is Freedom”
“This wholesale group exclusion of a person based on an accusation that they are somehow dangerous without any opportunity for that person to describe why they think this charge is happening or how they are experiencing it, or for anyone to look at the order of events that produced this accusation or the history of the person accusing — I mean, this is the definition of injustice.”
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Aesthetic Rising: Your Astrological Fashion Forecast Featuring Virgo
Like the Halloween candy that is already proudly on the shelves in CVS, I’m here to motivate you to get into the ~Fall Spirit~ wildly before it’s necessary with some Pumpkin Spice Horoscopes.