Nutshell Studies of Quarantine: Part Four, Winter 2020
Frida battles a new breed of procrastination in quarantine and then, in the new year, sees the light at the end of the tunnel.
I Was Better Connected to the Queer Community During Lockdown
As a disabled person, I knew participating in LGBTQ Zoom events wouldn’t magically cure me of my loneliness. Even so, it was amazing to be a part of something larger than myself. I don’t want to lose this access.
Boobs on Your Tube: ICYMI, “Cruel Summer” Was 90s Hot and You’re about to Be Furiously Obsessed with It
Plus a threesome on Betty, updates on Genera+ion, The Chi, The Bold Type, some unexpected queerness on Kim’s Convenience, and the witches are back on Motherland: Fort Salem.
Welcome 300 New A+ Members! Announcing a Mini Stretch Goal!
We initially set the goal of 300 people because we thought that was what we could do in two weeks; YOU ALL DID IT IN JUST ABOUT ONE. We’re in a place where we need as many new members as we can get, and since we were already planning to run the drive through the 30th, we’ve set a stretch goal.
Things I Read That I Love #320: Remember How Reckless Karaoke Seemed so recently?
Topics include Zola, the rise in Black homeschooling, the return of FOMO, online stalking, “Friends,” why meetings, Generation X, racism in The Bachelor, Mare of Easttown and more!
11 Places to Buy Merch Supporting Queer and Trans BIPOC People Instead of Corporate Greed
Here are 11 collections directly supporting LGBTQ BIPOC creators and organizations!
“September Mornings” Is Tender, Challenging, and Should Make Trans Musician Liniker an International Superstar
September Mornings is a beautifully shot and tenderly written show. But it’s Liniker who elevates the series to greatness.
Anonymous Sex Toy Review: The Shameless Slim Player Thrusting Vibrator
Sometimes I want penetration without being strapped down, and other times I’m too lazy to use a dildo to fuck myself. In comes the Shameless Slim Player Thrusting Vibrator!
The Comment Awards Are Entering the Vagina Appreciation Tunnel
“I can’t take you down to the dungeon – just kidding, I don’t have a dungeon, that would be weird.”
Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #36
Can Autostraddle investigate this question with journalism and/or science??
So You Want to Dress Like the Main Character
Is pretending I am the protagonist in romance novel a fun way to tamp down some of my nerves about being back out in the world? Yes!
Also.Also.Also: No Seriously, Free Britney
Fighting for America’s last 21 lesbian bars, the dos and don’ts of Hot Vax Summer, and let’s go bisexual Loki!
S L I C K: Plum
I dreamt of finger nails tracing my back, deep kisses, biting lips and hips pressed together. I desperately needed to cum.
OUR A+ Personal Questions AMA is NOW! 11am-4pm PST
The AMA is NOW! Get creative, pry a little (but be kind please), dig deeper. We want to get to know you!!! Feel free to ask AND share your heart out in the comments.
The 11 Queerest Episodes of HGTV
I’m a home improvement gay, determined to watch enough HGTV to one day level up. Thus it just leaves me with a lot of ideas but lacking the capacity to bring any of them to fruition. I can talk a good game, though!
A Capricorn Without a Routine: A Day of Work
I wish I was the kind of girl who woke up at the same time every day, had an extensive skincare situation dialed in, and had finally cracked the code of which intense journaling system would help quiet my overworked and perpetually anxious brain, but that’s just not who I am.
Exclusive Trailer Drop! Con Todo Netflix’s “Visions of Us” Is an Absolute Love Letter to Queer Latinx TV and Film
It’s one thing for white gays to line us up and tell our stories for a scorecard of ‘diversity points,’ it’s quite another when we’re given space to really do it for ourselves. There’s ugh… no other way to put this… it also has some interviews of me? Alongside Stephanie Beatriz and Tanya Saracho? So please take me to my fainting couch immediately.
A Gender by Any Other Name: What Does the Term Genderqueer Mean to Us in 2021?
“I feel like people started enacting these borders around it and categorizing it, and that felt so bad and wrong, and the antithesis of everything that it should be. Then, some people also really conflated it with the idea of being genderless or agender, and I’m like, “No…” I feel a lot of gender feelings! I don’t know what they are, or what they mean, but they’re there.”
The 5 Stages of Choosing Myself During A Pandemic
If you keep pumping your arms, your legs will know what to do even when the world is crumbling around you.
June Town Hall Transcript
The transcript for the June Autostraddle Town Hall is now available!