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The words Vacation Injection are over a single panel comic illustration of a bunch of queer people in a hotel room hanging out. One person asks the other to help with their testosterone.
Webcomics

Reine #55: Vacation Injection

How many queers does it take to administer hormones to a friend?

Ren Strapp December 23, 2023 2 Comments
Collage of video game images with a plastic film over it and duct tape with the Autostraddle logo and 2023 written in sharpie
Geekery

9 of the Best Queer Video Games of 2023

Adventure games, farming sims, and even a musical! Check out this list of some of the best — and queerest — games of 2023.

Valerie Anne December 19, 2023 15 Comments
A feminine elf-like creature holds a staff in one hand and lefts their other arm up.
Geekery

Queer Dungeons & Transgender Dragons: Exploring Gender Through Imagined Worlds

In D&D, your character’s gender is entirely yours to invent. When you’re already embodying the experience of a half-elf or a cat person, playing a person of another gender isn’t all that strange. From there, anything is possible.

Rowan Zeoli December 11, 2023 6 Comments
A hand drawn colorful grid in the style of a Bingo board. Spaces include: fanfiction, nature, coffee, noise cancelling headphones, cats, introspection, sharing, making art, and learning. There is also a free space in the center.
Webcomics

Baopu #118: What Brings You Joy? An Interactive Game of Bingo

What brings you joy? Add your own joyful occurrences using “free space!”

Yao Xiao December 2, 2023 2 Comments
An illustration of the most beautiful white cat with big cartoon eyes and lots of pink hearts with cute coos and parent phrases like "isn't she so cute?" and "she is so talented!" written all around her.
Webcomics

Reine #54: Cat Parenthood

Do cats play favorites or are they simply mercurial? Discuss.

Ren Strapp December 1, 2023 3 Comments
A desatured collage of six trans video game characters
Geekery

From Birdetta to Flea: 12 Trans Video Game Characters From the 80’s and 90’s

Whether we’re claiming a beloved, aspirational character or simply being mocked, the following characters are proof we’ve always been in the vast world of gaming.

Eva Reign November 20, 2023 9 Comments
An illustration of Baopu, an Asian person with red hair, on a Tarot card. The text reads: "Tarot suggests that I cut the bullshit... and that I overthink"
Webcomics

Baopu #117: You Are Overthinking This

How much are we supposed to think? Who’s supposed to think? I’m always worried I might be doing this wrong.

Yao Xiao November 4, 2023 3 Comments
An illustration of the artist, Rea, as a video game character. The on screen text reads: A SAVE POINT IS A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN REST AND HEAL, WHERE ALL YOUR PROGRESS IS RECORDED.THESE ARE MY SAVE POINTS.
Webcomics

Reine #53: Save Points

A place where you can rest and heal, where all your progress is recorded. Where are yours?

Ren Strapp October 28, 2023 4 Comments
Baopu, a red-haired Asian person, is drawn sitting at a desk in a two panel comic. They are working on a piece of writing and thinking to themself, "So annoyed!"
Webcomics

Baopu #116: An Essay With No Thesis

Immigrant, queerness, space, time…it just makes so much sense.

Yao Xiao October 7, 2023 2 Comments
a comic: a lesbian runs into a dungeon shouting "GUYS! GUYS! I JUST GOT A NEW GIRLFRIEND!" three hooded figures perched under a sign that says DYKE COUNCIL say "SHOW HER TO US."
Webcomics

Reine #52: New Girlfriend

You must submit your new girlfriend for the dyke council’s consideration.

Ren Strapp September 30, 2023 32 Comments
Two Fae Farm characters fall in love in the ocean
Geekery

Fae Farm Is Your New Stardew Valley — Including, Yes, Gay Marriage!

If you like growing crops, fighting magical monsters, collecting stuff, and making a whole town fall in love with you, I’ve got some great news.

Heather Hogan September 23, 2023 4 Comments
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet: The Teal Mask
Geekery

The Teal Mask Is a Sweet, Shiny Addition to Pokémon Scarlet & Violet

The Teal Mask builds on the sweetness that the base game gave us in all our main character stories last time around.

Heather Hogan September 16, 2023 2 Comments
A page from THE HERO'S JOURNAL shows our hero camping out in the wilderness in autumn
Geekery

The Journal-Planner That Turned My Real Life Into a Video Game

The Hero’s Journal is more about the vibes, like cozy fantasy, than it is about actually making it to Mordor with a cursed ring in your pocket and hurling it into a fiery doom.

Heather Hogan September 9, 2023 2 Comments
Fortuna wears a witch's hat and flashes a tarot card
Geekery

The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood: A Tarot-Making Game That Explores Gender, Grief, and More

The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood is queer spooky season catnip.

Heather Hogan September 2, 2023 5 Comments
Two comic panels, in the colors of peach, purple, and turquoise. On the left is an image of combat boots, and on the right is an image of a queer person covered in tattoos.
Webcomics

Reine #51: How to Decide What to Wear to a Queer House Party

The consensus is in: there is no consensus.

Ren Strapp September 2, 2023 1 Comment
Butch haircuts in Fallout 4, Animal Crossing, and Assassins Creed
Geekery

My 10 Best Butch Haircuts in Video Games

How could Cassandra ever refuse my elfin shaggy butch style??

Heather Hogan August 26, 2023 4 Comments
A drawing of Baopu, an Asian queer person with short red hair, in a purple t-shirt looking at a white flower that they've picked in their hand.
Webcomics

Baopu #115: Creating, Towards Utopia

The place I went to was no utopia. But it doesn’t stop me from making one myself.

Yao Xiao August 12, 2023 2 Comments
Geekery

MONOPOLY GO! Has Made a Monster Out of Me

I’m playing this game by asking myself what my actual favorite top-hatted person would do: And Anne Lister would stop at nothing to become a railroad tycoon! 

Heather Hogan August 12, 2023 8 Comments
Potential companion and romance option Shadowheart from Baldur's Gate 3
Geekery

Yep, You Can Be Gay and/or Trans and/or Nonbinary in “Baldur’s Gate 3”

There’s even gay sex scenes, like every good pen-and-paper D&D game. 

Heather Hogan August 5, 2023 13 Comments
In black bold text it reads We're Rich above a comic of a Black woman slamming open a door and saying "We're rich!" to her friend
Webcomics

Reine #50: We’re Rich!

Finally, some justice in this wretched world!

Ren Strapp August 5, 2023 1 Comment
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