Results for: \\\"fit for a femme\\\"
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Fast Fashion Diaries — Fat Femmes On the Difficulties of Curating an Ethical Wardrobe
“Fat and poor people don’t have the easiest access to clothing that makes us feel fly AND is affordable.”
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WNBA Week 6: All-Star Reserves and Are We Mercury Fans Now?
The All-Star reserves have been announced, James Wade is leaving the Sky in the middle of the season, we’re already falling for Nikki Blue, and oh so much more!
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A+ Members Get 20% Off Autostraddle Merch — Including All New Designs!
Designs you helped us conceive! Your exclusive code is inside this post!
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Autostraddle’s Favorite Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer TV Couples of 2023
Yellowjackets, Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, Station 19, and more! Check out our favorite queer TV couples of 2023.
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Into the A+ Advice Box #52: NEW YEAR, NEW LOOK
How to get a queer haircut, should you use a toolbelt during sex, and how can you queer business formal wear? The AS team answers these questions about your look, and more!
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Janelle Monáe’s Art Was The Musical Manifestation of My Truest Self
Growing up, I looked to Monae as a Black femme musician whose art and existence challenged traditional definitions of Black womanhood.
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Strapping As A Fat Femme Was My Black Queer Sexual Liberation
A fat Black femme explores the relationship with her body and shares how strapping became part of her sexual liberation.
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The Comment Awards Are Asking: Won’t You Be Our Valentine?
“Who needs to pay for psychics when Autostraddle reads my mind like this?” (PS: There’s also a handmade Valentine in here, just for you, from my dog Milo!)
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Things I’ve Never Asked Carmen About Growing Up in a Theater Family, Her Dating Habits, and More!
We talk tattoos, 9/11 and Carmen’s high school activism, spirituality, what L Word character Carmen is most like, being a die-hard femme and more!
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Editor’s Notes: On the Fat Femme Fashion Series
“It’s no secret that I am a big fan of Dani Janae, so when she came to me with a pitch about a roundtable conversation on fat fashion the answer was of course a large and resounding YES!”
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Puberty, Gym Class & Aeropostale — Fat Femmes On Their Childhood Style
“It sounds like we were all told by others that we were too big as children — rather than actually feeling that way ourselves?”
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In Challenging, Complex Essays, “Unsafe Words” Queers the #MeToo Movement
Multiple of these essays ask how we can make queer spaces safer, especially for our most vulnerable community members, while also not becoming our own police.
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The Gay B C’s of Sex: D Is for Daddy
The queer community played a special role in shaping how the word is used today. Are you ready to learn more? Say, “Yes, Daddy.”
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Style Thief: How To Dress Like Taissa From “Yellowjackets”
Rock teen Taissa energy by day and adult Taissa energy by night.
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TIFF 2023: A Queer Festival Recap
This year, I saw 38 features and, once again, most of my favorites were independent or not in English. There’s a vast world of cinema beyond Hollywood’s broken system!
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It’s Your Anniversary: My Rage at “Chasing Amy” Helped Me Find My Bisexuality
25 years later I was curious to see if I’d still hate it since I’ve stopped judging my queerness by my distance to gold star lesbian status.
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The Eras of My Bisexuality
She was the straight, white, Christian girl who was so picture perfect no one could dislike her.
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This Sporty Queer YA Novel Is the Best Book I’ve Read in Years
In last year’s Like Other Girls, Britta Lundin creates a heartwarming depiction of queer mentorship and intergenerational queer friendship.
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NEW HOLIDAY MERCH ALERT: Gay Chaos Socks, Fresh Tees, Queer Hoodies, More Pronoun Pins, etc!
Fresh, bright, zesty Autostraddle merch served up just in time for your holigay gifts list.
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Unexpected Item in the Bagging Area
“My wife and son didn’t know; no one knew. The guilt crept up when I unloaded the groceries in the kitchen, stolen and paid-for alike.”