A Queer and Trans Reading of Tammy Wynette
How come so many LGBTQ people worship divas, pop stars, and tragic Hollywood figures? How do LGBTQ readers, viewers, and listeners find queer pleasure in media targeted to the mainstream?
Remembering Minnie Bruce Pratt’s Legacy as a Radical Southern Femme
She might have left the South, but she never forgot it, scorned it, or neglected it.
In The Terrible We, Cameron Awkward-Rich Makes Space for Bad Trans Feelings
How do we hold transness and disability together, rather than denying the ways the “bad feelings” like dysphoria and anxiety have historically been a key part of trans thought, art, politics, and media?
Kemi Adeyemi’s Feels Right Explores the Politics of Black Queer Nightlife
Adeyemi told me when we talked in May that she has long been “frustrated with writing about queer nightlife that really presents it as this utopian escape from everyday life.” “That’s a story, it’s not reality,” she argues.
Clare Forstie Wants To Change the Way You Think About the Queer Midwest
“I am a queer person who grew up in and has lived in small communities, small towns, and small cities for my entire life.”
In “dapperQ Style: Ungendering Fashion,” Queer Style Is Centered and Celebrated
Our bodies deserve exuberant fabrics and innovative design and can highlight beautiful parts of what society typically erases.
Roxane Gay, Carrie Brownstein, Roberta Colindrez, Jane Lynch To Star in Audible Adaptation of Dykes To Watch Out For
With a killer voiceover cast and a creative team with strong theater cred, the Audible version of Dykes to Watch Out For looks hot.
Lost Lesbian Lit: A Lesbian Novel From the 1950s and the Continued Importance of Maude’s Abortion Episode
Our perception of history is shaped by who writes the stories and who publishes them.
In “A Recipe for More,” Sara Elise Asks: Who Do You Want To Become?
“We do not have to do anything more to be worthy; we are worthy just because we are.”
25 Lines of Poetry I Think About Once a Day
It’s National Poetry Month, so I become a poetry hound, sniffing out new books and revisiting old ones, finding solace, rage, love, and beauty in some of the words crafted by writers I truly admire.
Lost Lesbian Lit: Murder! At the Retirement Home
My only positive memory of my grandma was our last, the one time I was with her as myself.
Danny Lavery on What It’s Like To Be an Advice Columnist
“I would imagine a lot of the same things draw to advice columns that draw everyone, which is just that same impulse to run outside if somebody says there’s a fight.”
Send Me to Low Femme Paradise
The problem of having to have a body in the world again.
Meg Jones Wall on Queer, Expansive Tarot
“What if we just let all of these cards have gender neutral pronouns and we break them free from these gender binaries and let them be every archetype?”
Lost Lesbian Lit: Mommy Issues! At the Women’s Writers Retreat
Lost Lesbian Lit is a series of essays about lesbian literature from before 2010 with fewer than 25 ratings on Goodreads.
Congratulations to the 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalists!
Revisit Autostraddle’s reviews and interviews with this year’s Lambda Literary 2023 shortlisted books and authors.
Omise’eke Tinsley’s “The Color Pynk” Celebrates Black Femme Art for Survival
A beautiful commitment to and demonstration of Black femme poetics, The Color Pynk offers a radical alternative to the genre of the academic book, one that celebrates Black queer language as its own tactic of freedom-dreaming.
“Ingredients for Revolution” Offers a New Look at Social Justice Movement History
Cafes became hubs for marginalized members of the communities they were in, and learning their history helps us understand the power of their impact.
Nicole Morse Wants You To See Trans Feminist Futures in Selfies
Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art is a book about selfies and our relationships to them.
Marika Cifor Wants You To Activate Your Nostalgia for ACT UP
Marika Cifor’s new book Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS explores how LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS archives shape our understanding of history.