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Relationships

Dykes on Dates: Tips for Topping (Homemade Pizza)

You don’t have to be a seasoned home chef to make pizza date night a reality! I’ve got tips for all skill levels and price points.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 9, 2023 7 Comments
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First Person

Coca-Cola Used To Be Fifty Cents and We Used To Be Close

(Stop writing about the Coke when what you’re really trying to write about is the end of a friendship and then another and then another.)

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 9, 2023 15 Comments
Love At First Set by Jennifer Dugan features cartoon women at a gym, one is blonde with her hair up wearing a white tank next to a bench press, and one is a brunette and wearing a dress looking shy
Literature

Rainbow Reading: Lifting Queers, Listen Up! New Sapphic Romance Set in a Gym Is Coming

Plus, an upcoming YA book about a Mexican American nonbinary teen promises love in a taqueria.

Yashwina March 9, 2023 3 Comments
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Puzzles

Word Search: Say Hello to Your Friends

Grab your kid kit and your ding-dongs!

Darcy March 9, 2023 3 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Jasmin Savoy Brown Hard Launches Her New Partner on Instagram

It really raises the question, what are the best lipsticks for leaving marks on your gal pal?

Carmen Phillips March 8, 2023 6 Comments
The eight couples featured in this round of voting, all kissing: Miranda and Che, And Just Like That; Jackie and Leslie, Hightown; Candace and Lilly, Astrid & Lilly Save the World; April and Sterling, Teenage Bounty Hunters; Quinn and Isabela, Harlem; Fabiola and Eve, Never Have I Ever; Jamie and Dani, The Haunting of Bly Manor; Sabi and Olympia, Sort Of
AF+

A+ Members: Pick the Winner of the First Four Autostraddle March Madness Match-Ups

Instead of opening up these First Four match-ups to the whole wide web, as we usually do, we’re going to start here… with the members who power this community year-round.

Natalie March 8, 2023 11 Comments
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Food and Drink

Uncommon Pairings: Canned Sparkling Wines and the Chips That Go With Them

Canned wines have solved the problem of me not wanting to commit to an entire bottle of something.

ashni March 8, 2023 10 Comments
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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Zaya Wade Makes Her Runway Debut at Paris Fashion Week

Buffy’s new queer Slayer, what The Last of Us does better than anyone else, the soft masculinity of Top Gun, and more!

Heather Hogan March 8, 2023
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Niecy Nash and Jessica Betts Are the Bedrock of My Ideal Couple Vision Board

Also, Hannah Einbinder as Amelia Earhart is now officially a part of my deeply unofficial “Important IG moments in queer history.”

Christina Tucker March 8, 2023 4 Comments
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First Person Food and Drink

Grind Culture Made Fizzy Energy Drinks My Toxic Writing Partner

This is not a cautionary tale or a poignant anecdote about finding myself amid waves of imposter syndrome

Julie Gentile March 8, 2023 16 Comments
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword Is Making Cupcakes

Hey, not all math puns are bad!

brooke March 8, 2023 4 Comments
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Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Gay Campground in Florida Presents the Question Is It Time We All Finally Become Land Dykes

Queer separatism never looked so good. Also: Honoring disability activist Judy Heumann.

Carmen Phillips March 7, 2023 12 Comments
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TV Reviews

Slasher-Comedy Cruise Ship Series “Wreck” Has a Wicked Twist and a Standout Queer Friendship

The central friendship on the series is between a gay guy and a lesbian, which I wish we saw more of on television!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 7, 2023 1 Comment
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First Person

Seltzer Tastes Like Punishment

There are so many good songs about drinking but none about seltzer, have you noticed that?

Autumn Fourkiller March 7, 2023 16 Comments
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Friendship

You Need Help: Should I Try Again To Turn a Friendship Into Romance?

You have to evaluate if you can experience the friendship not as a consolation prize or a waystation for your ultimate destiny of romantic partnership with them but as a gift that is exactly what you want.

Adrian March 7, 2023 4 Comments
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First Person Food and Drink

Beers I Drank From Ages 14 to 20 That Made Me the ‘Man’ I Am Today

Every punk party — whether it was in Ft. Lauderdale or Lake Worth or North Miami — had the exact same drink options. Either you were drinking Mickey’s or you were doing shots of Jack Daniels.

Stef Rubino March 7, 2023 18 Comments
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AF+

Are You Pumped? Our 14th Birthday A+ Ask-Us-Anything IS NOW

Our fingers are ready! (To answer your questions!)

the team March 7, 2023 839 Comments
The following books: Lesbian Love Story by Amelia Possanza, Forever Is Now, Dykette by Jenny Fran Davis, Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby, Ellie Engle Saves Herself by Leah Johnson, The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher, This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham, Body Horror, A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett, and Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante
Book Lists

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.

Casey March 7, 2023 17 Comments
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Puzzles

Word Search: Gaylor Truther

If SWIFTGRON means anything to you, you’re gonna love this word search!

Analyssa March 7, 2023 8 Comments
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Movie Features

Sight & Sound: Ten Favorite Films from Cheryl Dunye, Desiree Akhavan, and Other Queer Faves

The following are the favorite films from all the out queer and trans directors who submitted lists to Sight & Sound — with some notes on what these lists reveal about the artists’ own work.

Drew Burnett Gregory March 6, 2023 11 Comments
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