Results for: women of colour
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A+ Member Gallery: Your Devastatingly Awesome Passion Projects
You all are just so cool!
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Anonymous Sex Toy Review: The CRAVE Duet Pro Build-A-Vibe Experience
Today three different Autostraddle writers review and compare their takes on Crave’s Duet Pro assembled at home via their limited-time Build-A-Vibe Experience. Each were sent Build-A-Vibe kits from Crave and were able to assemble their own vibes at home while hanging out together in a live Zoom workshop!
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Into the A+ Advice Box #75: Is It Over?
Career anxiety, dating after sexaul assault, consent and polyamory and more!
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Golden Animals in Manland: The Strange Place Queer Women Occupy in Bushwork
Bushwork — work done in the backcountry, often off-grid — offers a kind of freedom difficult to find in modern life. It is also a culture steeped in toxic masculinity in which queer women do not have a place.
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Dykes and Their Emotional Support Albums
I can’t help but wonder: What is each dyke stereotype of your past listening to during COVID lockdowns?
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11 Books for Getting Started with Polyamory and Non-Monogamy
Search polyamory and you’ll see the term partnered with words like “sexual revolution” and “on the rise” in several news pieces on the subject. Surely, there’s more to non-monogamy than sex, or the rebellion of joining a fad? What could it take to make being open/ polyamorous/ non-monogamous work? Eleven books and the internet’s idea of a “sexual revolution” bookshelf later, I present to you a list of some major titles relevant to queer women.
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On Blackness and “The L Word: Generation Q”
Black queer people are in this community. Trans queer people are in this community. And we deserve to get lost in a good time, too. We deserve fun, messy, sexy storylines. Just as much as any cis white woman over 50.
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Black Trans People Have Been Modeling Mutual Aid Before It Became a Buzzword
For the Gworls is a prime example of how Black trans organizers have found ways to keep one another safe, housed, and healthy despite violence at every turn.
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Principles of Pride: Sex Work Is Real Work, Sex Workers Are Fucking Revolutionary
A free world for sex workers would be a free world for people’s bodies, desires, and pleasures — that is to say, a world worth fighting for.
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The Queer Gardener’s Almanac: What You Need to Do as Spring Turns Into Summer
The moral of our queer tale in our gardens is the same as it is our lives: just keep fucking planting until something survives.
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Into the A+ Advice Box #65: So You Think You Might Be Gender Fluid
Advice on studying with ADHD, envying they/them pronouns, finding the best outfits to match glamorous heels, masturbation, and more!
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8 Lightly Murderous Mythological Ladies to Dress as This Halloween
Why wear just one costume when October lasts an entire month? Halloween is for the queers, own it.
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Always In The Middle: On Being Biracial & Bisexual
Perhaps my identity oscillates at times but in a world that attempts to force me to choose one side of a binary, I remain firmly in the middle.
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Extra! Extra!: Reopening Spikes and New COVID-19 Transmission Info Ring Us into Pandemic Summer
As the world crosses half a million confirmed deaths due to COVID-19, this week’s Extra! Extra! turns its focus to the latest COVID news and the disparate toll of the virus. In the US, battles are raging on reopening schools in the next month or so and the Supreme Court had another big week of rulings. Meanwhile, police brutality and intimidation, along with activism against police violence, continue.
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Into the A+ Advice Box #15: So Your Boss Sent a Hurtful Email About You
Broken up with during quarantine, exploring your sexuality in quarantine, feeling concerned about being “okay” in quarantine, sage advice for parents of a non-binary kid and more!
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Pop Culture Fix: Westworld and G.L.O.W. Bringing You Sweet Girl-on-Girl Action in Their Season Twos and Other Things That Are True
Samira Wiley tells Ellen she’s the Lord of the Lesbians on “Ellen,” Starz picks up “Take My Wife,” Janet Mock talks about “POSE,” a new clip from Disobedience, Hayley Kiyoko on the beautiful girls of Coachella, Bachelor in Paradise does some next-level queerbaiting and more!
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5 QPOC Visionary Fiction Projects to Look Out for in the Not-So-Distant Future
Our ability to conceive of ourselves surviving and thriving into the future is a crucial part of manifesting it as a lived reality.
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Nine Queer Writers of Color on “Generation Q” and The L Word’s Legacy of Whiteness
The L Word: Generation Q featured 12 new queer characters of color in its first season, but media conversations about the show have largely remained driven by white points of view. So, we set out to change that.
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55 of the Best Queer Books of 2019
From gorgeous graphic memoirs to epic fantasy tales, twisty thrillers, swoony romances, exceptional essay collections, and more, there’s an amazing queer book from 2019 on this list for everyone!
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Find Your Fit: The Late 20s Grandpa Who’s Ready to Feel Hot
“I love classical tailoring but I worry that maybe it comes across as a bit stuffy and boring? I want to convince myself, and ideally other people, that I’m hot and I’ve got a lot to offer.”