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20 Foods I Ate Because of Fictional Characters, Ranked

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Heather Hogan March 29, 2022 62 Comments
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Gender Identity

Surprise, It’s Depression: Recovery from Gender-Affirming Surgery

After gender-affirming surgery, many trans people experience post-operative depression. Awareness and the knowledge that you aren’t alone can help.

Alex Petkanas March 29, 2022 13 Comments
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In part two of their intimate interview, Autostraddle Managing Editor Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya asks her girlfriend Kristen Arnett to define being a top and what she remembers about their first night together at a hotel bar.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 29, 2022 6 Comments
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Breakups

You Need Help: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

I know I must sound like a broken record: “break up…break up…break up!” But I truly think that you both deserve the kind of relationship where your needs are being fulfilled.

danijanae March 29, 2022 2 Comments
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Natalie March 28, 2022 1 Comment
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Literature

Making it Work: A Queer Author Screams into the Wind

I was a couple of months into transition, and re-examining my relationship with seemingly everything I’d taken for granted until then.

Nyri A. Bakkalian March 28, 2022 2 Comments
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“Killing Eve” 405 Recap: Carolyn’s Flashback Episode Is a Mixed Bag

Eve makes a move against Hélène, and Hélène strikes back HARD.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 28, 2022 15 Comments
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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Ariana DeBose Is the First Queer Person of Color, First Afro-Latina to Win an Acting Oscar

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Heather Hogan March 28, 2022 11 Comments
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LGBT Book Reviews

Jean Chen Ho on “Fiona and Jane,” the Eros of Friendship, and Finding Your Fiction Community

“When I was writing these women and their mothers, I wanted to show that these are individuals.”

Em Win March 28, 2022 3 Comments
Movie Features

Oscars 2022: Two Queers Discuss the Actually Kinda Gay 94th Academy Awards

Riese: “Does the driver count as a lesbian character do you think?”
Drew: “How could she not be?? Did you see her blazers??”

Drew Burnett Gregory and Riese
March 27, 2022 11 Comments
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Quizzes

Quiz: Which Villanelle/Eve Moment Are You?

In this pick your own adventure style quiz, you get to imagine you’re a hot international spy in pursuit of a hot international assassin. Sound familiar?

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 27, 2022 22 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Episode 1412 Recap: Smells Like Queen Spirit

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Drew Burnett Gregory March 26, 2022 5 Comments
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Webcomics

Baopu #97: Ancestry

A dream helps to untangle the emotional connection to an ancestral home and the need to understand it more as a queer person.

Yao Xiao March 26, 2022 2 Comments
TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: NCIS: Hawai’i Has That Good Gay Angst

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Natalie and Valerie Anne
March 25, 2022 8 Comments
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TV Feature

Autostraddle March Madness: Better Halves — Sci-Fi/Fantasy

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Natalie March 25, 2022 6 Comments
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Culture

The Drop: Lizzo’s “Watch Out for the Big Grrrls” has Depth, Drama — and So Much Ass

Dani Janae and Shelli Nicole chat through their thoughts on Lizzo’s new reality series that’s for the big girls!!

danijanae March 25, 2022 5 Comments
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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Will See You at Abbot Elementary

“Now I’m very excited for another Autostraddle article in another 11 years adding even more editorial inserts to Kayla’s current editorial inserts.”

Darcy March 25, 2022 10 Comments
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TV News & Trailers

Netflix’s New Dating Show “The Ultimatum” Will Have a Majority Queer Women Season

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Carmen Phillips March 25, 2022 7 Comments
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Movie Reviews

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Could it be the rare Bollywood film that lets gay desires and dreams take center stage?

Anamika Gopalan March 25, 2022 14 Comments
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Carmen Phillips March 24, 2022 5 Comments
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