Lez Liberty Lit: The Emergency Library
1.4 million free books, virtual museum tours, maintaining a creative practice (but maybe not starting that coronavirus novel) and more.
Fat Liberation Is the Future
It’s time we stopped telling people to “love themselves” and started demanding fat liberation at every level, in every way. Here’s how we liberate ourselves from the tyranny of diet culture, and why that matters for the betterment of our communities and our future.
Also.Also.Also.: Skateboarding Is Queer Culture
Learning to swim as personal journey, how corona is affecting the WNBA, queer skating collectives and more!
A Therapist on What You Need to Know About Your Own Mental Health in the Time of COVID19
We all must do the internal work of unpacking how the harms of our social structure have become internalized, have lived in our bodies, have shown in our relationships. We must allow ourselves to feel the weight of it.
Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: March’s Poetry Is Not a Luxury
One of the biggest lessons of Audre Lorde’s work is the strength of coalitional politics. I need a movement that can hold my anger. I need a movement that can hold my contradictions. I shouldn’t have to qualify my rage when speaking out about injustice.
“One Day at a Time” Is Back When We Need it Most
To have this show on the air at this moment — even if Netflix had renewed the show, it likely would have debuted in January — it just felt fated. We needed this show at this moment and I was so grateful for it.
Pop Culture Fix: Animal Crossing Players Are Recreating Your Favorite Lesbian Movies
Lots of One Day at a Time convos and interviews, Love Is Blind and The Circle are coming back to Netflix, Sue Bird doesn’t give an eff if you think she’s too old for the 2021 Olympics, and The Doctor would like you to listen to science please.
Basic Butch Style: The Breakup
Newly single? Read this first.
No Filter: Celebrities Are Staying Inside With Dogs, Cats, Muffins, Masks, Pianos, Influencer Memoirs and More!
Gigi Gorgeous needs book recommendations and Hayley Kiyoko has some iconic lounge wear!
Foolish Child #68: Current Events
Fine. Everything is PERFECTLY fine.
Dominique Provost-Chalkley Is Queer: “Wynonna Earp” Actress Comes Out on Her Birthday
“I am queer. I am into ALL humans. I guess maybe I am just really into love? Who knows? But finally… I am OUT.”
Respect Your Elders: Tea with Trans Lesbian Poet Barbara Marie Minney
Lou Barrett sits down with Barbara Marie Minney to talk about coming out later in life, being a trans lesbian poet, and BDSM.
Also.Also.Also: Digital Drag, Socially Distant Lesbian Weddings and Wow We’re All Homeschooling Now
Queer culture and history in light of corona, women’s sports news, links on homeschooling and some political quick hits!
Extra! Extra!: People Are Rising to the Occasion with COVID-19, Many Governments Not So Much
This week’s COVID-19 news roundup sheds light on what’s going on with the stimulus package and how governments are using this moment to consolidate power. And we continue to have the same old fights around reproductive rights, immigration and health care.
Roundtable: The Undocumented Activists Organizing a Strike and Building a New World
In a country that hates immigrants, every day immigrants are on the front line of imagining and enacting another world: One where they can safely live with basic dignity, respect, and protection.
Anonymous Sex Toy Review: Fun Factory’s Be-One Vibrator
You heard it here first, folks. Be-One vibrator for couples? Better on your own!
Animal Crossing: New Horizons and 15 Other Anxiety-Busting Video Games
No time like the present to build an adorable civilization from the ground up!
“Supergirl” Episode 516 Recap: Up, Up, and a Gay
Grieving the loss of her father, Alex goes into a VR simulation where she is Supergirl and Kelly had to fight to keep her from getting stuck there forever.
Shelter In Our Place: Autostraddle’s Virtual Community Care Week
We made you a week-long virtual hangout space on Instagram because times are very tough. If you’re feeling alone right now, please come Shelter In Our Place for a little while.
Pop Culture Fix: Watch One Day at a Time’s Special Self-Quarantine Mini-Episode
Why Vida shouldn’t end, highlights from Rosie’s self-quarantine talkshow, fictional doctor shows are giving their supplies to real hospitals, Queen Latifah is an eternal icon, and more!