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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Running Into the New Year

“Thinking about the stud who hit on me in Penn Station. They were so smooth that I’m still thinking about it three years later.”

Darcy December 31, 2021 3 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

Boobs On Your Tube: Niecy Nash Is The Boss of Me and You and Also “Claws”

Plus an update on Hightown and a happy New Year!

Natalie December 31, 2021 7 Comments
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Pets & Animals

35 Cats to Follow on Twitter in 2022

Social media is bad. Cats are good!

Heather Hogan December 31, 2021 16 Comments
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First Person Holigays

Seeing the First Sunrise Makes Each Year Feel Special

Waking up early and standing out in the cold may not seem like self-care, but to me, it is.

Jessica Hurtault December 31, 2021 3 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

All The LGBT+ Celebrities Who Got Married, Engaged, Had Babies or Otherwise Were Cute in 2021

Just look at all these queer celebrities announcing their love, getting engaged, getting married, having babies and kissing at the Olympics!

Riese December 30, 2021 5 Comments
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Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Candace Parker Voted Woman Athlete of Year, Says Stock Her Jersey for Once

The wild story of eggnog, Sarah Jessica Parker nostalgia and a million other reads for your New Year.

Carmen Phillips December 30, 2021 1 Comment
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TV Show Recaps

“And Just Like That” Sex Is Back in The City (And it’s GAAAAY)

Carrie gets a new hip, Charlotte’s kid gets a new name, and Miranda gets some gay sex.

Heather Hogan December 30, 2021 38 Comments
A collage of editors' favorite cover features of 2021. in the middle is the text: End of Year Lists 2021.
Straddleverse

Autostraddle Editors Choose (Some of) Their Favorite Posts They Had Nothing To Do With

We asked our editors to pick one thing published on Autostraddle in 2021 that they had absolutely zero things to do with. Something that they loved purely as a reader.

The Editors December 30, 2021 8 Comments
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Straddleverse

My Top Nine Best Band Tees That Are Technically Just Autostraddle Merch

“Eddy and Becky, best friends who boned on OnlyFans to earn cash to fund Gay Chaos’ first album, started out with bathtub ukelele covers and careening, desperate ballads that made rock bottom sound like the world’s only emotional truth.”

Riese December 30, 2021 10 Comments
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First Person

15 Things I Drank in My Year of Not Drinking

Tasting notes: This one is real, like a hallucination. You can feel it, see it, and it leaves very little evidence of its passing through your body. Lingers barely on the tip of the tongue, with high notes of bright genders named like quarks.

Nico December 30, 2021 39 Comments
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TV Reviews

“Dickinson” Gives Emily and Sue the Happily Ever After They’ve Always Deserved

Dickinson’s third and final season was funny and fun and deep and wild and so, so gay. Emisue, forevermore.

Valerie Anne December 30, 2021 11 Comments
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AF+

Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #39

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The Editors December 30, 2021 11 Comments
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Literature

Lez Liberty Lit: The End

Over the decade-ish that I’ve been writing this column, the number of published queer and trans stories has exploded.

Ryan Yates December 30, 2021 38 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Christen Press Draped Around Tobin Heath in the Snow

Friendship truly has no boundaries!

Heather Hogan December 29, 2021 14 Comments
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Pop Culture Fix

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Why Cynthia Nixon came back to Sex and the City, holigay greetings from Candace Parker, Y’all really does mean all, and more!

Heather Hogan December 29, 2021 2 Comments
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Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft Book Lists

My Favorite Witchy Books of 2021

Every year, more and more brilliant, engaging, inspiring witchy books are published to help both beginner and more advanced practitioners improve their skills with tarot, astrology, tarot, numerology, herbalism, divination, and other sacred practices.

meg December 29, 2021 4 Comments
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First Person Holigays

Forgiving Myself as the One and Only New Year’s Resolution

I’m letting the dust of others’ expectations begin to settle, leaving room to see that I am not to blame for the hurt and harm I’ve dealt with. This year, I’m not making a list. Instead, I’m focusing on forgiving myself for ever thinking anything different.

Taneasha December 29, 2021 8 Comments
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Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Let’s See Who All’s Came Out as Trans or Non-Binary This Year

Reclaiming bimbo-hood, is it safe to have a New Year’s Eve party, and in the era of online dating — why are we obsessed with meet-cutes?

Carmen Phillips December 28, 2021 1 Comment
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Movie Reviews

“Parallel Mothers” Is a Masterpiece of Mommy Issues and Generational Trauma

Womanhood has been a front for so many facets of Pedro Almodóvar’s own life. But in his latest masterpiece, womanhood is a front for even more.

Drew Burnett Gregory December 28, 2021 4 Comments
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TV Feature

There’s Something About a Stud With Dimples

I love Black butches. Studs. Masc folks. I love them when they’re quiet and when they are loud. I love it they are soft — and when they are hard. Just a whole Dr. Seuss rhyme of loving them.

Carmen Phillips December 28, 2021 15 Comments
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