Pop Culture Fix: The Sims 4 Adds Top Surgery Scars and Binders for Trans Gamers!
WNBA free agency is already bonkers, the Sam Smith discourse, MCU’s first trans actor, and more!
“I Didn’t Know Trans Men Existed Until I Saw Chaz Bono on Dancing With the Stars”
This year, the Autostraddle team decided to focus our Black History Month coverage on the Black elders who are still here and still doing the work. We welcome our readers to celebrate these members of the Black LGBTQ+ community with us.
No Filter: Keke Palmer’s Fairytale-Themed Baby Shower Is Very Charming
Also, Ali Krieger swam with a ding dang SHARK!
Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for February 2023
It’s important to acknowledge times like this, small oases of relative peacefulness in otherwise turbulent times. If you’ve been waiting for a moment to catch your breath, this is it.
Mini Crossword Didn’t Get Tickets Either
My girlfriend bought a boat…
Also.Also.Also: Noted Lesbian Author Kristen Arnett Was a Clue on Jeopardy, the Category Was “Get Stuffed”
Also, Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union see Zaya off to her winter formal, how our definition of “healthy” fails Black women, and did we mention we got interviewed by CNN?
The Autostraddle Insider Issue 100: January 2023
“what if autostraddle just became a mariah carey fansite”
The State of Queer and Trans Film After the 2023 Sundance Film Festival
“In the past few years, we’ve been seeing queer people in film outside of trauma and pain. We’re seeing folks who can be terrible, romantic, sweet, murderous — and who also just happen to be queer.”
“The Last of Us” Episode 102 & 103 Recap: Alone Together
Ellie, Tess and Joel head out into the city, and we learn about a gay love story at the end of the world.
Queer Archivists and Library Workers on Archival Materials That Meant a Lot to Them
“We’ve always struggled but we’ve also always had culture and community, I think that those just mean a lot to me, also that we’ve always been funny.”
Learning From Queer Libraries and Archives in a Time of Erasure
As legislatures and hate groups seek to censor and erase queer and trans lives and experiences, these spaces, be they physical or digital, housed in universities or grassroots-led, are perhaps more important than ever.
You Need Help: Should I Tell My Crush How I Feel?
You’re wondering if you should admit your feelings to her, but you’re not sure if she’s queer or not. Let’s look practically at all the options.
Word Search: Hetero Pessimism
We couldn’t get STRAIGHT PRIDE to fit, so just consider it there in spirit.
Drew Barrymore and Natasha Lyonne Say They’re Aubrey Plaza’s Mommi and Daddy, I Personally Won’t Recover
I do feel as though I am personally being bullied by Drew Barrymore and Natasha Lyonne in this moment and frankly, I love that for me!!!!
In 1994, Sky Dancers Informed The Tiny Femme I Was Becoming
Sky Dancers were just the kind of aggressively feminine toy I was unconsciously obsessed with.
Sundance 2023: A Queer Festival Recap
Film festivals are one of the primary places that buzz begins. It’s why it’s so important that the first responses to films out of festivals aren’t solely those of cis straight white men working for major publications.
Pop Culture Fix: Kehlani Doesn’t Have Relationships With Men Anymore, Thank You Very Much
The Last of Us is getting a second season, queer-coded villains, Melanie Field’s new TV show, and more!
Queer Naija Lit: “The Lives of Great Men” Interrogates the Measures of Masculinity and Greatness
My internal identity journey as a black genderfluid person involves engaging with my relationship to masculinity.
I Laid an Alien Egg Inside My Girlfriend With the G’lorp, So I Can Officially Say I’ve Tried It All
When I learned there are sex toys called ovipositors that allow you to lay “alien eggs” in your host, I had to try one.
Rethinking the Power of Movement, One Barbell at a Time
Up until a few months ago, I never felt very strong. I was a fat kid who grew into a fat teenager, and now I’m a fat adult.