Boobs on Your Tube: “The Chi” Celebrates Queer Black Joy in The Season 3 Premiere
Also: Kat kicks off a new podcast on The Bold Type, ex drama on In The Dark, a trailer for the new season of Wynonna Earp, and lots of your faves at QFX Cloud Con.
Extra! Extra!: What’s Changing – and Staying the Same – in Minneapolis After George Floyd’s Death?
This week’s Extra! Extra! takes us back to the state where George Floyd died to check on the progress towards justice. We take a look at some of the implausible stories concocted by the same people who ask us to believe them when their body cams mysteriously fall off. We look at what’s happening — or what’s not happening, as the case maybe — on addressing corruption, police brutality and immigration. And, of course, a look at how the virus continues to impact our lives.
This is Your Friday Open Thread for June 26, 2020
It’s the last Friday in June! We’ve had a big exciting week here at Autostraddle! We’re hosting a virtual benefit on Sunday! Let’s talk about everything!
The Comment Awards Are Normalizing Weird
“Yesterday I thought to myself, ‘I wonder what GayStew is doing in quarantine?’ And this morning I find myself reading this.”
We Find Freedom in Black Trans Joy
We place joy at the center of our spaces, because spaces created for us are often only interested in our trauma and pain.
S L I C K: Lesson Learned
“Ms. DeLovely, will you please stop by during my office hours?” Your voice stern, but laced with sweet concern. I’m already dripping. Clearly this is a role you were born to play. “Yes, Professor Luna.”
Also.Also.Also: Sports Are Back! But Are We Supposed to Cheer?
The WNBA and NWSL are back — but during Covid, is our entertainment really worth the players safety? (The answer? No.) Also: Chase Strangio, Raquel Willis, and why our gender identity language isn’t enough.
Live Show This Sunday to Benefit Women For Political Change, Minneapolis!
Featuring El Sanchez, Jes Tom, Junauda Petrus-Nasah and Be Steadwell, 100% of ticket proceeds go to support Women for Political Change in Minneapolis!
How to Wear a Mask Without Fogging Up Your Glasses
14 tips for living your mask and glasses life fog-free.
Lez Liberty Lit: Bodies Are Not Metaphors
How to find a queer incarcerated penpal, why it is correct to capitalize Black, “The Vanishing Half,” “You Exist Too Much,” living in the Cool Zone, it’s time for publishing to ditch its conservative authors and more.
How Queer YA Novels Taught Me to Write My Own Happy Ending
Maybe, she finds herself thinking, there could be space for joy in this new life. Maybe, she dreams, as she finishes the last page and immediately starts the book over again, this is not so hopeless after all.
My Top 10 Favorite Lesbian Movies: Natalie, the TV Team’s Resident Bisexual
I’m not even sure I believe in love at first sight but every time I watch “Imagine Me & You” — I really, really want to.
Pop Culture Fix: Kristen Stewart Made a Movie for Netflix About Her Life in COVID Isolation
Also: Top Chef winner Melissa King is gender-fluid; Zendaya talks to MJ Rodriguez about her breakout roles and learning her own worth; The Handmaid’s Tale season four trailer; and a new Scream maybe?
EXCLUSIVE: Staceyann Chin Performs Her Poem “Crossfire” with Video Artist Sekiya Dorsett
Chin’s work is invaluable always, and in the current moment. We’re glad, then, to bring you this new and gripping performance of the book’s title poem, from Haymarket Books and directed by Sekiya Dorsett.
One Last Letter From This Editor
I’ve had three full-time jobs for this company for 11 years and today I’m taking the triumphant step of knocking that down to two!
Ferguson and Community Trauma: Defining Peace For Ourselves
We see violence not only in the crimson of blood spilled far too many times but also in the varying shades of brown on the skins of people of color. To be a person of color in the United States, and in the global narrative, is to be the shadow of violence.
No Filter: Ama Elsesser Will See You Soon
Kiersey Clemons and Quinn Wilson were very cute babies and Chef Melissa King wins Top Chef All Stars!
In Pursuit of a Pirate
We were just friends the first night she stayed over. I only had a single bed and there was little choice but to press our bodies close together: one big spoon and one little spoon. My desire for her followed me around like a lost dog. It would scratch at the door, whining and begging to be let out.
14 Knuckles: I Want to Buy You A Matte Black Audi
I was always thinking about them — what I’d bring, what I’d wear, what we’d do when we saw each other next. I wanted to dote and caress every moment of every day. I was willing to do damn near anything for them. I was consumed by what I can only term “I want to buy you a matte black Audi” energy.
You Watched “Disclosure,” Now Watch These Shorts, Web Series, and Indies Made by Trans People!
Sam Feder’s remarkable new documentary “Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen” is only the beginning of our story. Even more trans artists are forging their own paths with these indies and web series.