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Book Features Holigays

Holigay Gift Guide: What To Buy for Book Lovers (Other Than Books)

If it’s too much pressure to pick out a book for your literary pal, consider a creative display shelf, a customizable book planter, pressed flower bookmarks, and other presents that are bookish but not books!

By Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya | December 3, 2021 | 8 Comments
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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Cuddling Up at the Christmas Tree Farm

“It is now my accepted headcanon that Rudolph is a lesbian who is very handy with her toolbox.”

By Darcy | December 3, 2021 | 13 Comments
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A+

Into the A+ Advice Box #49: Wanting to Want Monogamy

Crushing on your therapist, a partner controlling your time with friends, the long-term impacts of gaslighting, maybe getting married again, making adult friends via Facebook groups — the AS team gives A+ members advice on these topics, and more!

By the team | December 3, 2021 | 17 Comments
Against a lavender background, there is a drawn image of two women with 1950s hairstyles. One woman whispers in the other's ear. A speech bubble appears to her left. Inside the speech bubble, there is a teal, silicone, claw-shaped sex toy with ridges. It has a plastic handle with white and red buttons.
Sex Toys

Anonymous Sex Toy Review: The Manta

The Fun Factory Manta is a sex toy advertised “for men,” but what they really mean is “for people with penises.”

By Guest | December 3, 2021
Cardi B and Meg thee Stallion perform WAP at the Grammys
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Bisexual Legend Cardi B Named First Ever Creative Director in Residence of “Playboy,” That’s the WAP Agenda

Being single is more expensive on purpose, Janelle Monáe is curating Afrofuturist short stories, and If your coping mechanism through hell has been avoiding paying attention to what’s going on with SCOTUS, we have your required catch up reading.

By Carmen Phillips | December 2, 2021 | 7 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

“Twenties” Episode 208 Recap: Case of the Ex

Is it still a lesbian love triangle if there are four players? You, your girlfriend, your ex girlfriend, and your ex girlfriend’s (maybe) ex girlfriend who just loves to stir trouble.

By Carmen Phillips | December 2, 2021 | 24 Comments
Christmas Movie Reviews

There’s an Unexpected Lesbian in Hallmark’s “An Unexpected Christmas”

I love surprise lesbians, especially when they ruin Christmas for homophobes, so this little Hallmark movie was a hit for me!

By Heather Hogan | December 2, 2021 | 11 Comments
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Holigays Sex Toys

Holigay Gift Guide: Stocking Stuffers Under $20 for the Sweetheart Whose ‘Stocking’ You ‘Stuff’

Shops this list of toys and accessories that are under $20 and have yourself a hole-y night.

By Ro White | December 2, 2021 | 3 Comments
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TV Feature

There’s Something About a Scary Woman With Questionable Morals

Especially one who probably wouldn’t let me top her.

By Ro White | December 2, 2021 | 12 Comments
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By Sarah and Riese
December 2, 2021 | 9 Comments
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Literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Do Not Privatize Libraries

Why is privatizing libraries a thing! Plus, centering voices not just bodies, banned books, stoner novels, nonlinear narratives, and more.

By Ryan Yates | December 2, 2021 | 2 Comments
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Webcomics

Foolish Child #109: Foolish Child(ren’s Books)

Do you know how beneficial a book about inexplicably loving random pairings of older women would have been to me at like fourteen, when Agent Scully met Agent Reyes?

By Dickens | December 1, 2021 | 4 Comments
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Movie Lists TV Lists

December 2021: Whats New, Gay and Streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, HBO Max and Peacock

This December we’ve got the Sex and the City reboot and its non-binary Sara Ramirez character, a bisexual reindeer on Santa’s B-Team, a Black gay dating app inventor, the new Matrix movie, a queer character in a Christmas rom-com, a queer Real Housewife, a lesbian organic dairy farmer in an all-female dystopia and so much more!

By Riese | December 1, 2021 | 8 Comments
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Pop Culture

Pop Culture Fix: Kathryn Hahn Is Our New Jo in the “Facts of Life” Live Re-Enactment

Even more lesbian Christmas movies, the first trailer for the Sex and the City sequel, The best Harry Potter novel isn’t written by JK Rowling, and more!

By Heather Hogan | December 1, 2021 | 7 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: All I Want To Do Is Celebrate Christmas Caroling Through the Night With Niecy Nash and Jessica Betts

Plus, Indya Moore for British Vogue? What else is there to say but “I’d like some more?” And hot moms (Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris) and cute baby? This is the future gays want!

By Christina Tucker | December 1, 2021 | 5 Comments
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LGBTQ+ Businesses

NEW HOLIDAY MERCH ALERT: Gay Chaos Socks, Fresh Tees, Queer Hoodies, More Pronoun Pins, etc!

Fresh, bright, zesty Autostraddle merch served up just in time for your holigay gifts list.

By Sarah and Riese
December 1, 2021 | 37 Comments
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Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for December 2021

As we come to the close of another pandemic year, I can only describe the collective energy as exhausted. Aren’t we all just a little tired of character-building growth opportunities at this point?

By Corina Dross | December 1, 2021 | 12 Comments
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Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Earring Magic Ken, An Ode to a Whole Entire Queer Icon

Congratulations to Barbados on becoming a republic (and celebrating with Rihanna, as one should!), lesbian feta cheese, and announcing Oestrogeneration — a magazine for trans women writers.

By Carmen Phillips | November 30, 2021 | 9 Comments
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A+

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?

By Carmen Phillips | November 30, 2021 | 21 Comments
Most Lesbian Christmas Songs: A collage of five Christmas albums by Doris Day, Nat King Cole, Wham!, Brenda Lee, and Eartha Kitt
Christmas Music

Classic Christmas Songs, Ranked by Lesbianism

The lyric “someday soon, we all will be together, if the fates allow” is very Sappho if you know what I mean. I’ll take any opportunity to find the dyke root in any piece of media, so why not rank some holiday classics by how much lesbian energy they exude?

By danijanae | November 30, 2021 | 15 Comments
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