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Results for: mama outsider

  • Mama Outsider: Reminder Notes to a Dancing Girl

    By Asha | August 19, 2016

    “It is the weekend Beyoncé releases her “Formation” single and a bad queen has just performed it without breaking a sweat. I am watching the queen and learning that the way not to sweat is to move so little that every move seems like drama. I’ve got the not moving part down, which is how I am here at a club with a roommate whose friends want to meet the Black girl she let live in her house.”

  • Mama Outsider: How I Learned the Definition of Obscene

    By Asha | August 4, 2016

    “I was unstable and grieving and more suited for a patient friendship than the dramas of new love. But I loved her and in thirst, I acted unlovingly by climbing into a lap in which I wasn’t welcome. My behavior is the definition of obscene.”

  • Daddy Issues: Some Queer Father’s Day Reading for You From Autostraddle

    By Riese | June 17, 2018

    Some essays and stories about our Dads — the good, the bad, and the very complicated.

  • Mama Outsider: No Place Like Home

    By Asha | April 28, 2016

    “Every day since my father died has been at least a little fucked up. There is no such thing as a non-fucked up day when you are a Daddy’s girl without a father.”

  • Mama Outsider: Learning Black Zen in a White House

    By Asha | May 12, 2016

    “Why some people mean? One income that isn’t a livable wage plus racism will do that to you, and you can’t imagine the rage until you’ve lived it.”

  • Mama Outsider: When Your Mother Thanks You for Keeping Your Baby

    By Asha | May 26, 2016

    “Instead, I jump back into the mind of the girlish woman I was at 28, the one who didn’t know enough about the consequences for unacceptable motherhood to plunge headfirst into the fire. It has taken me much longer than my mother to see the gift of my own naiveté.”

  • Call For Submissions: “Renaissance,” Personal Essays From Black LGBT Women

    By Aisha | January 27, 2017

    I’m guest editing an essay series for Autostraddle next month and am looking for personal essays about how your black queer life has been saved or influenced by art in all forms, from television to sculpture.

  • You’re The Reason We Still Exist: Celebrate A+’s 2nd Anniversary By Joining A+!

    By The Editors | July 11, 2016

    In honor of our 2-year anniversary, Bronze members will be able to access the entire archive of Silver/Gold A+ content from July 11th-15th. This would be a great time to join or renew!

  • “Black Lightning” Episode 216 Recap: We Can’t Go On Like This

    By Carmen Phillips | March 19, 2019

    The upside of last night’s season finale? Thunder’s new motorcycle. The downside? It’s time to talk hard truths about the unacceptable double standard that’s happening in Black Lightning’s storytelling.

  • “Wynonna Earp” Episode 307 Recap: Haught for Sheriff

    By Valerie Anne | September 3, 2018

    Wynonna gets to know her sister’s girlfriend a bit better as her and Haught run around town getting into all kinds of hijinks.

  • This is a collage of six photos. Shelli is wearing a "Break Up With Him" graphic tee, Carmen is wearing a Whitney Houston graphic tee, Drew is wearing a Lois Weber productions graphic tee, Kayla is wearing a Bubba Gump Shrimp House graphic tee, Nicole is pictured with their girlfriend both wearing matching "I'm a Citizen Detective" tees with Misty's face on them from Yellowjackets, and Laneia is wearing a tee that reads "World's Greatest Dad"

    The Autostraddle Insider Issue 90, March 2022

    By The Editors | March 31, 2022

    “currently googling disobedience + spit”

  • Waverly Earp cradles Nicole's face and looks up at her lovingly

    “Wynonna Earp” Episode 409 Recap: I Dream of Ginny

    By Valerie Anne | March 20, 2021

    Purgatory’s Trivia Night turns into a competition for who has the tastiest brain and Waverly learns why Nicole has been too afraid to show her face in town.

  • “Black Lightning” Episode 214 Recap: Get You a Girlfriend Who Knows How to Brawl

    By Carmen Phillips | March 5, 2019

    Well then, Grace and Anissa had their first real fight. But, it’s not at all what you think.

  • The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 26, August 2016

    By Riese | August 31, 2016

    “i’m stepping down from autostraddle
    bye
    you’ll miss calling me out when i give my body to the sea so”

  • 27 Summer 2019 TV Shows For Queers To Watch Out For

    By The TV Team | June 4, 2019

    Tales of the City reboot, The Handmaid’s Tale blesses the fight, Pose vaults to the 1990s, HBO debuts a Skins-esque show starring Zendaya canoodling with a trans character played by an actual trans actress, OINTB says goodbye, G.L.O.W moves to Vegas, LGBT documentaries debut for Pride and so many more summertime TV gems to look forward to!

  • Read A F*cking Book Club: We’re Gonna Read “We Were Witches!”

    By Vanessa | October 17, 2017

    We Were Witches by Ariel Gore is an autobiographical novel that uses magick spells and inverted fairy tales to combat queer scapegoating, domestic violence, and high-interest student loans. We’re going to read it together this month!

  • Wherever West Is

    By Jeanna | February 8, 2018

    “Loving women and loving the land are the two things I told myself I would never do, and somehow, they got all tangled up in each other.”

  • greetings from Indianapolis Indiana Postcard

    Queer Girl City Guide: Indianapolis

    By Queer Girl City Guides | July 10, 2018

    The Indystraddlers take you on a tour through Indianapolis!

  • 8 Books Featuring Queer Parents To Read This Summer

    By Casey | August 8, 2017

    The feel-good books centering queer parents you should read right now.

  • 58 Trans Women Actresses You Should Know and Also Love

    By Riese | August 8, 2017

    Your move, Hollywood.

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