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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 12: Beanie Feldstein speaks during 'Variety LEGIT!: Return to Broadway' at Second on October 12, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images)
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Beanie Feldstein’s Never Even Heard of Lea Michelle, Stop Asking

The first look at Harley and Ivy in season three of Harley Quinn, the trailer for the final season of Dickinson, how the Batwoman cast became a family, and more!

Heather Hogan October 18, 2021 7 Comments
Tracy Kowalski as Alex bowls as Will Krisanda as X films him.
Movie Reviews

Newfest 2021: “Death and Bowling” is a T4T Fantasia On Death and Creation

Kash has created the ideal commentary on trans representation by abandoning that project altogether.

Drew Burnett Gregory October 18, 2021 1 Comment
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First Person

Asshole, Autistic and Other A-Words of My Love Life

Something was deeply wrong with me, something shameful. Turns out, the truth is more complicated.

Amy Lee Lillard October 18, 2021 12 Comments
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Quizzes

QUIZ: Which Queer Spooky Book Should You Read This October?

Whether you want to be scared out of your wits by a haunted house story, disturbed by body horror, feel warm and fuzzy about witches falling in love, or vicariously get feminist revenge by reading about teen girl werewolves eating slimy men, there is a queer spooky book for you!

Casey October 17, 2021 32 Comments
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NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Fingering With Any Nails They Want

Fingering with long nails is not only possible but also encouraged and so is healing from past relationships.

Ryan Yates October 17, 2021
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Straddleverse

So! How Is The Autostraddle Fundraiser Going?

Let’s talk about it!

Nico October 16, 2021 6 Comments
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First Person

Well, That’s Mortifying: That Time I Didn’t Know About Roger Clemens

The class erupted in wide-eyed giggles and guffaws and I continued smiling at the front of the room, confident and certain that I’d made a very smooth move.

Vanessa October 16, 2021 9 Comments
Lauren from New Amsterdam on the phone saying "I can't stand being away from you."
TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: New Amsterdam Keeps Saying Love Is Not a Lie But THAT’S Also a Lie!

Also! Updates on Rosewell, New Mexico and Nancy Drew and American Horror Story and Work in Progress!

The TV Team October 15, 2021 7 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

The Morning Show: We Are Having So Much (Gay) Fun!

“I AM HAVING SO MUCH FUN!” Bradley yells from the floor where she is sitting (gay) and eating a plate of waffles.

Christina Tucker October 15, 2021 14 Comments
Marcela Robledo hugs Ana María Otálora who hugs Silvia Varón in red lighting.
Movie Reviews

Newfest 2021: Ruth Caudeli’s “Leading Ladies” Takes Dyke Drama Seriously

The various plots of Leading Ladies — with their backstabbing, cheating, and litigious consequences — would fit right in on The L Word. And yet they couldn’t feel more different.

Drew Burnett Gregory October 15, 2021 4 Comments
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Straddleverse

Autostraddle Predicted the Future in 2014 🔮 And We Were Spot On

A+ is a key part of the reason Autostraddle can be the way that we are today, and why we can publish what you love.

Nico October 15, 2021 2 Comments
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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards are Wearing Fuzzy Wuzzy Slippers

“I was indifferent to Miss Honey, but was really into Trunchbull, and no, I don’t want to unpack that.”

Darcy October 15, 2021 7 Comments
Twenties recap: Hattie texts Ida
TV Show Recaps

“Twenties” Episode 201 Recap: A New Dawn, A New Day

“After you sleep with the woman of your dreams, there’s only one right thing to do in that situation, which is to badly sing Anita Baker and also tell her you want to marry her.” Welcome to Autostraddle’s Twenties recaps!

Carmen Phillips October 15, 2021 12 Comments
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Politics + Activism

Anti-Blackness and Bioessentialism Won’t Give Us Abortion Rights

On Lil Nas X, fake pregnancy, and projections on social media.

KB Brookins October 15, 2021 9 Comments
A collage of the black characters from Generation Q, left-to-right: Angie, Bette and Pippa, Sophie. Bottom row, left-to-right: Kayla, Maribel, Eddie
The L Word: Generation Q TV Feature

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.

The Speakeasy October 14, 2021 54 Comments
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AF+

S L I C K: The Cool of the Marble

Our narrator takes their sub over the edge. “I am so lucky to be the custodian of your pleasure and your pain, pet.”

Cruel Valentine October 14, 2021
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TV Show Recaps

“Batwoman” Episode 301 Recap: We’re All a Little Bit Mad

Sophie smashing women into walls in a sexy way! The one and only Renee Montoya! And the look Ryan gives her gal pal! We’re back, Bat-fam!

Nic October 14, 2021 13 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

“Legends of Tomorrow” Episode 701 Recap: Big Top (Energy)

The Legends are back with circus shenanigans, bank robbery, and just a touch of accidental homicide.

Valerie Anne October 14, 2021 7 Comments
A feature image with a headshot of Autostraddle's A+ and Fundraising Director, Nicole. Nicole is a white genderqueer person with large, tortoise shell glasses and hair that is bleached on top and a mix of gray and dark brown, shaven, on the sides. They are wearing a black sweater and are set against some cut out circles with a sunset gradient against a starry black sky
Straddleverse

No Time for Hell, Yet. Or: Is This Essay Really Just About My Inbox?

You would think that, as someone living, not in actual Paris, but the “Paris of Appalachia” as they call Pittsburgh, that Brexit would leave me largely unaffected, but dear reader, you would be wrong!

Nico October 14, 2021 15 Comments
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Book Features

The Book That Helped Me Leave Religion: Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle”

The first sentence of “The Books of Bokonon” – the fictional foundational text of Bokononism, the religion Kurt Vonnegut invented for his 1963 novel Cat’s Cradle – reads as follows: “All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.”

Abbie Jones October 14, 2021 3 Comments
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