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.
The Comment Awards Are Doing Karaoke With Shane and Bette and Sophie and Finley
“This is so on point that in a weird Mandela Effect way I genuinely now believe that I have seen Alice sing ‘Bitch’ and will not be convinced otherwise.”
Into the A+ Advice Box #39: FASHION
Jumpsuits at weddings, overalls, office wear, thrifting and tailoring and more! The Autostraddle team talks FASHION, specifically your fashion, in this special themed A+ Advice Box!
“Good Trouble” Season 3B Premiere: Alice and Malika Share Edibles and Heartbreak
Natalie recaps the Good Trouble 3B premiere and chats with EP Joanna Johnson about what we can expect for Alice in the coming season.
Also.Also.Also.: Research Finds Being In Love with Your Best Friend Is Provably Gay Culture
Hong Kong’s drag scene, Free Britney, how to find an LGBT-friendly pediatrician, Candace Parker and more!
Spaces & Places: A Roundup of 30 Queer-Owned Houseware Shops
Whether you’re in the market for furniture, art, candles, planters, kitchenware, organizers, textiles, or little tchotchkes, these queer-owned shops have got you covered.
Gunpowder Milkshake Wants Credit for Including Kickass Women, It Forgot You Have to Write Them First
If women bone cracking the skulls of men to a Janis Joplin soundtrack with pints upon pints of gory jello blood to spare is your idea of summer weekend fun, there are worse ways to spend your two hours.
De-Gayed By Hollywood: 22 Movies That “Straightwashed” LGBTQ+ Women Characters
Lesbian and bisexual characters have been straightwashed out of existence in many beloved Hollywood films. Here are 22 examples of times queer stories were de-gayed for mainstream consumption.
Lez Liberty Lit: Discipline Is Part of Creation
On writing regularly, an approach for overwhelm, a book of botanical drawings and more.
Pop Culture Fix: Legally Blonde’s Writers Trample Best Rumor of 2021, Say Ending Was Always Straight
MJ Rodriguez’s mom reacts to her Emmy nom, the trailer for Fear Street: 1666, and would you let the cast of Gunpowder Milkshake kick your ass?
Editor’s Notes: On Spaces & Places
The ways that we allow ourselves to take up space, to make our homes comfortable and reflective of who we are, are gifts that we give to ourselves.
Dating a Librarian Is The Best Thing To Happen To My Bookshelves
What dating a librarian and fellow writer taught me about organization and intimacy.
Foolish Child #99b: Post-Covid Hot Girl Summer
She said something about picking up a few rebounds for a post-Covid Hot Girl Summer so…
Good Trouble EP Previews Alice’s 3B Storylines: “She’s Growing So Much”
“I think that Alice’s arc is to find her voice and to stand up for herself. She’s probably always been good about standing up for others, but not quite standing up for herself. So, in this respect, she stood up for herself and others and they didn’t stand up for her.”