“Heather Hogan’s misandry gives me LIFE.” Welcome to Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us: in which the Autostraddle senior team answers q’s A+ members send in, freaks out with you over exciting news and responds to your all-consuming need to share various things!
“‘Michelle Branch + leather’ is somehow incredibly accurate for my closeted self in that era.”
Rosie O’Donnell answers every question (you didn’t ask) about Sleepless in Seattle, remembering Aaliyah, Joe Biden’s Covid fails, and you’re not wrong — this summer has been unbearable.
Our narrator learns that their girlfriend is actually a lobster in a human suit. “I looked up at her — my lover, my lobster — and she leaned down and embraced my lips with her mandible.”
The queering of Malika Williams has begun in an episode of Good Trouble that returns the show to its roots and back to form!
What happens when a piss-baby man-child inside a traditional family sitcom has a wife who lives in another show entirely?
A great new horror comic, what to do when things feel scattered, a new Octavia Butler biography, the possibility of wandering in the digital age and more.
Are Ryan Wilder and Alex Danvers finally going to meet? Alex is bi in Life is Strange: True Colors, Motherland: Fort Salem and Drag Race get new seasons, Betty does not, and Shay Mitchell is playing gay again.
.“And to think, you could be manifesting all kinds with your little cartoons.”
Kara has a Take Your Dad to Work Day as the Superfriends (INCLUDING Lena) try to stop a trash monster; Kara and Alex deal with their Phantom trauma.
If your heart has ever erred towards icy, I invite you to warm it up by witnessing the unbridled, starry-eyed joy of two girls in love who have only ever had one (1) fight and it was about Legos.
Leisha Hailey, I mean… come on with this baby dyke excellence. And much like Hayley Kiyoko I cannot express enough how much “taking a shower and lying on floor” is like… my entire personality.
Who gets to be a femme? How Sony tarnished Jeopardy! and Alex Trebek’s legacy, Josephine Baker be honored with a Panthéon burial, and the many faces of women who identify as witches.
I have to start by getting this out: “Fuck your ex. FUCK THEM.” You are not to blame.
If the first season was a spiral, the second seems to be about the mundanity of doing okay. And like the first season, its humor, its pathos, its power is found in its casual, low-key specificity.
When the sound of a scream leaves my throat, it is a choice. I am never accidentally screaming. I scream in the car and it is on purpose.
Even years after we graduated high school or left our hometown or eschewed processed snack foods, we couldn’t deny the evidence of our former appetites, each of our fingers a flapping red flag.
I’m hungry to throw a dinner party. For now, there’s this. DINNER PARTY—a series of micro essays on food.
Ava and Sara try to figure out what game Bishop’s playing while the Legends prepare for Mick to give birth to baby aliens.
“In Gigi’s head she’s always calculating everything and very aware of everyone’s emotions and very aware of her own emotions and then does the chaotic thing anyways. And that’s how I live my life and I love to see it on TV in someone so hot.”