Autostraddle’s Most Popular Stories of 2022
From Generation Q to football gays, Stardew Valley to The Golden Girls, these were our most read posts of 2022.
The Comment Awards Are Humming Along
“I’m just…I can’t stop watching this and blushing.”
The Comment Awards Are Drinking Evergreens — Make Mine A Double
“And here we thought the spruce syrup was just a tasty treat!”
The Comment Awards Are Giving It the Old College Try
“Hobbies I have tried and left by the wayside: crochet, sewing, knitting, Duolingo, yoga, marriage.”
The Comment Awards Are Eating All the Leftovers
“As always, Tina has a lot to answer for.”
The Comment Awards Are Thinking of Her (The Wicked Witch of the West)
“It’s the Wicked Witch to queer kinkiness pipeline.”
Thank You and Welcome to 550+ New A+ Members!
It’s impossible for indie media to exist without reader support!
No One Cares About Queer People as Much as Queer People
“Some people grumble about how much “easier” younger generations have it.”
The Comment Awards Are Foraging for Mushrooms
“Don’t talk to me or my 23,000 sexes until you’ve had a nice long think about cisnormativity.”
I am a Sucker for Romantic Comedies
“The dapper Black girl that danced and sang about the future had led me to a new corner of the universe and I was smitten.”
Writing for Autostraddle Helped Me Find the Words for My Real Coming Out
“To come into myself, to really integrate my queerness as an essential part of myself, I needed to start telling the stories I had been holding in for so long.”
It Was Like Living on the Moon
“It was like needing food, and eating a pile of smooth, round stones instead. It was almost a life.”
Ten Things I’ve Learned In My Four Years at Autostraddle
“I would rather the limitations be financial than be limits on my work, my voice, my personhood.”
I Focused My Time on Proving Her Wrong
“I remember telling my girlfriend at the time, ‘I’m going to write for them some day,’ to which she replied, ‘You can try but it’s pretty competitive. I don’t think you’ll ever be good enough to write for them.'”
The Comment Awards Are Puzzling It Out
“My first attempt was actually cara-bi-ners, before I realized the dashes were there for a reason!”
Do You Love Queer Books?
I want fewer queer books slipping through the cracks.
WHAT In the Queer Media Happened You All!?!??
No, this is UNHEARD OF.
Fright Dyke Has a Message for the Final Gays
Are the lights on?
This Is a Highly Serious Post
Who wouldn’t love to see the AS senior staff sit in a bathtub of cold legumes, just for the sheer hell of it?
Your Comments Showed Me I Wasn’t Alone
“Sharing my stories with that audience never felt right — I always felt like I was explaining, never that I was just telling my truth.”