There’s Something About a Scary Woman With Questionable Morals
Especially one who probably wouldn’t let me top her.
85 LGBTQ+ Owned Businesses and Queer Shops To Support This Holiday Season!
With so many LGBTQ+ owned shops out there it’s gonna be a joy to put money back into your community this holiday season!
A+ Members Get 20% Off Autostraddle Merch — Including All New Designs!
Designs you helped us conceive! Your exclusive code is inside this post!
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.
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?
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!
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!
A+ Holigay Watch-Along: “The Princess Switch 3” With Shelli Nicole!
Let’s count how many Vanessa Hudgens we spot and make lots of jokes about switches!
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!
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.
FYP: TikTok Is Starting To Hit Far Too Close To Home…
Now — Wait a damn minute…
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?
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.
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?
Zeba Blay’s “Carefree Black Girls” Is Beautifully Affirming
The pages are covered with marks from my lavender pen where I circled and annotated moments and phrases that felt so true to my own life.
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?
Witchy Aubrey Plaza Prophesies “Happiest Season 2” ‘Cause Riley Needs Love Too
Ho ho ho, homos!
You Need Help: Trusting Yourself After Leaving an Abusive Relationship
The first thing I want to say is that I’m so sorry you had this experience with someone you loved, who you trusted. You deserve to be treated with respect and honor and grace. Remember that when you feel yourself doubting your heart and mind in the future.
I’m Tired of Apologizing for My Intersex Trans Body
Within a binary understanding of sex, a binary understanding of gender, or a binary separation between sex and gender, I am impossible.
I Used to ‘Compensate’ for My Blackness in the Dating World — Now I Embrace It
As a teen, my insecurities made me feel like my Blackness was something that dragged down my worth.
