What We Wish We’d Known Before We Started Gay Dating
“You don’t have to be friends with the girl you met on Tinder (even if she says “wanna be friends instead?” after two dates and some exceedingly mediocre sex).”
How to Avoid Performative Allyship: The Moment Is Over, Time to Join the Movement
Performative allyship isn’t helping. If you’re interested in building more than just a “woke” brand and want to be part of lasting, systemic change, here’s where to start.
Pop Culture Fix: Holland Taylor Joins the ‘Murder Me, Mommi’ Movement
Also: Mulan is coming to Disney+, Lena Waithe is making an open marriage drama at Amazon, Lifetime orders an LGBTQ+ Christmas movie, and more!
Anatomy of a Mango: Flesh
It seems contradictory to say I learned how to view my body as my own by sharing it with strangers and friends, but it is a truth that I revel in. What I love and learn about these encounters are the parameters of my body, its strengths, and boundaries, what pleases it.
What’s On Our Gay Agenda? Ask Questions, Get Answers at Our Live Town Hall
Autostraddle leadership will your questions live (virtually) with our voices and faces! Ask about the vision, the fundraiser, what we’re planning, our favorite cookies — we want to hear from you and then talk to you through a screen!
No Filter: Chef Melissa King Is Here to Make You Sweat
A Happy Belated Birthday to Ali Krieger! Also, Sara Ramirez and Kate Moennig have some amazing childhood throwbacks for us.
Netflix’s “Get Even” Is “Foxfire” Meets “Pretty Little Liars,” But More Mediocre and Slightly Less Gay
Is ‘Get Even’ a good show with a robust queer storyline? It is not. Did I watch the entire thing in two days anyhow? I sure did!!!! Should you do the same?? Probably!
Also.Also.Also: Sarah Paulson’s “Ratched” Trailer Will Haunt You, but in a Hot Way?
Horror homos gird your loins, Sarah Paulson’s “Ratched” prequel from Ryan Murphy is coming, and so far it looks great! Plus: Megan Rapinoe wants to be a dominant lesbian dolphin, and 13 cookbooks by LGBTQ+ authors of color to buy Right Now.
Creative Interviewing Creatives: Chani Nicholas on Cosmic Playlists, the Election, and Activism
Chani Nicholas, Canadian-born Astrologer and New York Times best selling author of You Were Born For This: Astrology for Radical Acceptance, chats with Jackie about her Spotify Cosmic Playlists, healing justice and much more.
My Top 10 Television Characters: Riese, Who Admires Your Confidence
Everybody on this list except Angela Chase really believes in themselves and I truly do appreciate that in a human being.
New Vision for Us, New Perks for You: Autostraddle’s August 2020 Fundraiser is Here
If you’re asking “why fundraise now?” the answer is twofold.
Letter From the Editor: Fresh Vision for Autostraddle
The heart of my new vision for Autostraddle is pretty simple: make more space for lesbians and queer people — especially people of color — to be our entire selves and to be known for the multi-dimensional ways we move in the world. We are the ultimate authority on our culture, who we are and how we live. This is a home for us.
Songs to Come Home to: A Pandemic Friendship and Loneliness Playlist
This isn’t a collection of songs about friendship, but rather an attempt to capture all my complicated and gooey friendship feelings — the biggest feeling being I REALLY MISS MY FRIENDS.
You Need Help: Can I Tell My Poly Roommate Not to See Her Partners Because of Coronavirus?
It becomes increasingly difficult to ask individuals to make huge personal sacrifices, at great cost, when it is clear the government is doing almost nothing to move us toward a different world.
“Wynonna Earp” Episode 402 Recap: Her Secret Garden
This episode is Way Haught from beginning to end, though things aren’t all quite what they seem.
Anonymous Sex Toy Review: The Cookie Vibrator
I like sex that involves teasing. You know the kind, kissing in the car before you get home where hands are grazing shirts. That teasing is how the Cookie vibrator made me feel.
Ellen DeGeneres’ Talk Show Is in Question Amid Accusations of Racism, Intimidation, and Sexual Misconduct
With #ReplaceEllen trending on Twitter this morning, it seems that speculation about Ellen’s future isn’t going anywhere any time soon.
Pop Culture Fix: Is “Station 19” Setting Up Maya and Carina to be a Legendary Gay Shondaland Couple?
Also: Evan Rachel Wood and Miranda July’s Kajillionaire trailer, Naya Rivera’s last TV appearance, Harley Quinn lands on HBO Max, and more!
Sunday Funday and Janet Mock Are Wearing Valentino
Happy Sunday! Janet Mock has gifted us with her beauty, some cool women’s suffrage photo galleries, astronauts came back to earth (did anyone tell them it was 2020??), Meryl Streep’s films ranked, and so much more! Get in here!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Chafing
Preventing summer chafing, embracing body hair, demon and ghost sex, why your breakup was for the best and more.