Jo Ellen Pellman covers GALMOUR UK, it’s been 20 years since Bianca came out on All My Children, the teaser for Queen Latifah’s Equalizer, Twenties Star Jojo T. Gibbs’ new project, and more!
Play peekaboo with Chef Melissa King, let Janelle Monáe be your knight in shinning glitter, Trace Lysette will highlight your hair, and watch Niecy Nash and Jessica Betts have live their best auntie Christmas life.
‘Tis the season of giving! Also, the season of receiving. Ideally (and often!) this is a joyous event; sometimes it’s a confusing or neutral one; at worst, it’s harrowing. We’ve run the full gamut of these experiences, as you can see here!
“Abolition isn’t just going to protests, which is a really important direct action, but also actively prefiguring the world we want.”
In Viola Davis’ hands, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” becomes a complex portrait of a queer Black woman hurricane whose footprints loom large over the last 100 years.
Bend It Like Beckham could never.
The Wilds is sometimes cheesy, sometimes saccharine, all times dramatic as hell.
These three Autostraddle writers tried out Baci, a “premium robotic clitoral massager” by Lora DiCarlo that’s meant to mimic oral sex. Here’s how our clits are doing now!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer teams up with Mayor Bette Porter to save lesbians in Los Angeles from vampires on New Year’s Eve.
On the heels of Gillian Anderson’s breakup with creator and showrunner of The Crown, a new love enters Gillian’s life.
Also: Batwoman’s season two premiere photos, what even is television, Aubrey Plaza isn’t a “total psychopath,” The Laverne Cox Show, a lesbian couple in OWN’s First Christmas, and more!
Riese: I would text Riley and be like “you up?”
Carly: Are you still at the gay bar…? Because?
Riese: I would come back incensed with rage and ready to make a mistake.
Carly: Ready to ruin my relationship.
Riese: Yes. I would be full of the spirit of ruin and ready to share it.
Carly: Which is not Christmas spirit, but it is kind of related.
Yule this year is meant to be quiet, relaxing, comforting, and joyful. With so many new traditions beginning, and a few old favorites getting incorporated into this next chapter of my life, I feel full of hope in spite of the challenges this year has brought. Sending love and warmth to you and yours.
The Elf on the Shelf as we knew him is dead. We need the Anti-Fascist on the Bookcase.
How many of these seasonal experiences do you share? You can tell us by screenshotting the bingo card below on your laptop or phone screen, marking off the ones that describe you in a visual editor of your choice (perhaps Preview, or the Markup option on your iPhone!) and sharing it in the comments here.
Hard-working and unafraid to set boundaries, Capricorn has so much to teach us about our value, our focus, and our confidence. If Sagittarius’ fire has left you feeling lost, if you’re still reeling from the losses and shifts that you experienced with Scorpio, Capricorn is here to help you make sense of where you have come from, and make a structured, detailed plan about where you want to go.
This is very last minute but apparently tonight there will be a lunar eclipse during what is called a “full beaver moon,” which just seems like something y’all would be into.
Having sex dreams under weighted blankets, what to do if you forget how to focus on a conversation, coconut oil is not the best lube, whether closure sex is real and more.
Tongson’s personal cooking style relies on saving the ingredients or parts that traditionally, institutionally have less value — “something that you think is burdened by indignity, cheapness and trash” — and finding her own perfect application that proves otherwise. “Sometimes it is relevant to bring in the conversation that Nietzsche started, in relation to Britney Spears,” she says with a laugh.
I’m sharing part of a scene from the book that captures the essence of why I love to write fiction: so I can write the fantasy dates with girls I adore, whether or not they happened quite that way.