Queer Design 102: Figuring Out What Your Space Needs
Even if you don’t have the budget or permission to do full-scale renovations, there are so many small tweaks and adjustments you can make that will still create substantial change.
No Filter: Cara Delevingne Really Does Have Like, The Best Brows in the Game
Thank you to Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe for being you, Janet Mock is giving iconic Season Three SATC vibes, and what if I pivot to being a teenage boy and cover my walls in the Leyna Bloom Sports Illustrated?????? Might be kind of iconic???
Also.Also.Also: The Lesbian TV Gods Know Justice, Victoria Cartagena Will (Once Again) Be Our Renee Montoya, This Time on Batwoman
Leyna Bloom is Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue’s first trans cover model, Halsey is a mom (!!), a people’s history of Black Twitter, and Y2k fashion trends are coming back — so is their inherent fatphobia.
You Need Help: Your Straight Partner Is a Great Ally – But His Parents Aren’t
Setting up boundaries around family members can be a complicated and painful thing, but doing so without the support of your partner will likely be more difficult, and could potentially create some challenging situations for the two of you to navigate.
The Olympics Will Be Completely Gay By 2080, According to Science
If you are at all skeptical about this analysis, I think it’s worth heeding both the words and spirit of renowned statistician Megan Rapinoe: “You can’t win a championship without gays on your team.”
Spaces & Places: Team Fantasy Wishlist
In which our team names their wildest home decor dreams.
My Pinned Tweet Is Solid Proof That Queer Time Travel Exists
There’s a reason it has been my pinned tweet since 2016 — It’s my origin story.
I’m Finally Taking Up Space In My Own Place
On putting the safe decorations in the closet and letting my home reach its full gay potential. On taking up space in my own space.
Pop Culture Fix: Of Course Loki’s Bisexuality Was Confirmed Because of Bisexual Director Kate Herron!
Also in today’s Pop Culture Fix: Danielle Savre and Stefania Spampinato hanging in a hot tub, a DND homebrew campaign featuring an all fat + queer cast, TV’s colorism problem, Dominique Jackson discusses mentoring queer youth of color, and more!
“Legends of Tomorrow” Episode 610 Recap: ¿Por qué?
Ava and Sara are off looking for wedding venues so we have to spend the whole episode watching Constantine be… well, Constantine. They can’t all be Thong Songs and Beebo Battles, I guess.
“Fear Street: 1666” Brings The Trilogy to a Very Gay Close
Part origin story, part conclusion, the final film smashes together its timelines and serves up two distinct films at once that, despite their aesthetic and tonal differences, are inextricably bound.
“American Horror Stories” Is Ryan Murphy At His Worst
This is a brutal look into who Ryan Murphy deems worthy of a personality and who exists only to aid or bully a white gay before getting their throat slit.
Quiz: What Disney Channel Original Movie Made You Gay?
Bring on the late 90s/early 2000s nostalgia!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is A Nihilistic Slut
85% of queers met their partners by being friends first, how to slow date, how to hide nudes on your phone and more.
Baopu #88: The Poster Child of Anxiety
When words sometimes complicates things even further, only a surrealist picture can sum up the weirdness of social anxiety.
Boobs On Your Tube: Betty’s Queers Keep Talking About Talking Without Actually Talking (GAY!)
Also in our weekly LGBTQ+ TV round-up, updates on The Chi, All American, iCarly, Motherland: Fort Salem, and The Republic of Sarah!
Extra! Extra!: All Eyes on the Legislative Battle for Texas
This week we’re talking about the political strife in Haiti, the US’s messy exit from Afghanistan, the development of new COVID variants, your bimonthly legislatively institutionalized moral panic report — and the attacks on citizens’ rights plus the attempts to hold them at bay that are rocking Texas legislative chambers.
Be Part of Autostraddle’s Spaces & Places Gallery!
Show us your favorite corner or room of your space. How did you put it together? Where did the pieces come from? Why do you love it? Share photos of your space and we’ll post them in a big gallery post, so that you can find inspiration and also share what you love!
Queer Design 101: Figuring Out Your Personal Design Style
When I found myself facing the blank walls of my new room, I had a minor moment of panic. Has the same thing happened to you?
“We Do This ‘Til We Free Us” Makes Abolition Accessible Without Claiming It’s Easy
Imagining what true justice would look like is difficult and strange and convoluted and there aren’t easy answers. Kaba, along with countless other writers, thinkers, and revolutionaries, has spent decades doing so anyway – and has given us this book as a gift as we attempt to do the same.