Gabrielle Bellot on having your existence up for debate, WNBA players on lockdown in Florida, the latest wave of Supreme Court decisions, Wales’ new queer bookshop and more!
I did my best to not let my lurking paranoia get in the way of being happy during certain portions of the game but it was an ever present feeling. Even now, having finished the game, it is still there. The few times I forgot about it I found myself taking comfort in two women deeply in love, in the shit together.
I texted Autostraddle Deputy Editor Carmen Phillips as soon as I saw the news and she said, “Here’s your official quote: LET’S FUCKING GO!!!!!!”
“There. She. Is.” Glennon wrote in her new memoir, Untamed, when she recalled the moment Abby Wambach entered her life. I assumed that would be the central conflict of Untamed. And in some ways it is — but not the ways I expected.
How the fictionalized film on the horror writer Shirley Jackson bends the line of reality.
Mercedes Mason flexes (heh) a new quarantine hobby, and Rahne Jones is making me reconsider hats!
Includes Angelina Jolie two ways, a lot of coming-of-age, and Blake Lively’s 500-piece suit.
How Janelle Monáe built a character we don’t often see on TV, the history of The Baby-Sitter’s Club Phone, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Gemma Arterton are girlfriends in Summerland, and more!
You owe it to yourself and your partner to be honest.
Tell us how you really feel!
The WNBA’s new Social Justice Council, China’s drag queens, Kristen Arnett on Dorothy Allison — and did a certain celesbian intellectual elope with her girlfriend? 👀
When someone I know is dealing with a difficult situation, I typically feel extremely “Put me in, coach!!!” But when I am the one in a difficult spot? Well, then, thanks so much for offering but I’m perfectly fine to handle this on my own!!! The fact is, asking for/accepting help is incredibly difficult for a lot of us—even those of us who know, logically, that no one can get through life alone.
We’ve got a lesbian taxidermist in Run, a fish cop in Hightown, Janelle Monae in a rowboat and so much more.
There’s another kind of revolution happening within this sequel, and that’s where Knecht really blows the doors off the noir genre.
The Magic Wand isn’t without critique. I have been yearning for a sleeker toy, something waterproof, a wand that doesn’t hurt my wrists and at times I want intensity without the rumble. This is why I was intrigued by the PalmPower Extreme!
So often, when you’re single, especially if you’ve been single for a long time, people will give you the same empty platitudes. You just haven’t met the right person yet, you’ll find love when you’re not looking for it, you have to love yourself before anyone else can love you, etc. But this show takes those sentiments and clicks a new lens into place over them.
Netflix’s BSC adaptation is, to my surprise and delight, a faithful recreation of Stoneybrook and its resident squad of tween entrepreneurs with essential 2020 updates to Ann M. Martin’s easter candy-colored world.
Also: Legends of Tomorrow season 6 will cause Avalance angst, PLL’s Alison and Emily are back together off-screen apparently, spend the day with Laverne Cox, and more!
Happy Sunday! There is SO much good news this week including a queer disco playlist, sorority news, Black art, Ecuadorian drag, political Pride in Paris and even more!!!
A Massachusetts city has officially recognized polyamorous relationships; playing Animal Crossing with a buttplug; why “clean” is not a good metaphor for talking about STI status; and more.