I hope you sit for a moment and know that you gifted us — and so many other people — with a serious dose of hope. You are making sustainable, community-supported independent queer media possible.
“Being a closeted teen who wasn’t even aware meant I just listened to melancholy songs and imbued an unrealistic amount of meaning to them.”
Beltane is fast approaching and for many of us it’s going to be a solo celebration this year.
Xin chào! My name is Xoai Pham. I’m the new Trans Subject Editor at Autostraddle.
Also, Holland Taylor shares a TBT sketch of herself that I simply must own.
Ava leads the charge to Hell to get answers from Astra while Zari faces off with a dinner party full of Encores.
Postcolonial Love Poem is everything the title purports it to be. It positions itself between the worlds of love and violence, and answers the question of where love can exist in a nation with a long list of atrocities, especially against Native people.
This is dedicated to those who are just trying to make it through every day. It’s been gratifying on an almost cellular level to find that the queen mother Audre Lorde can so frequently speak to the times and places in which we find ourselves. Her final book of poetry, “The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance,” is no exception.
One Day at a Time scores an animated special, The Last of Us II gets a real release date maybe, a show about social distancing from the Orange Is the New Black team, Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris talk activism on and off the filed, and more!
Contemporary YA novels don’t necessarily have happy endings so much as hopeful ones, and The Half of It follows this blueprint, delicately treading the fine line between saccharine and heartfelt with skill — and a few good jokes.
UFO Updates, Zoom fatigue is real, some thoughts about Anna Wintour, supporting small business when you’re also unemployed, Latinx movies that love lesbians the most, and apparently Taco Bell is art now?
We’re not suggesting that if you’d just shop queer, all will well, but if you’re burning some cash on retail therapy anyway, you might as well support queer folks running these small businesses!
“I”m not asking you to be a hero; I’m just asking you to keep going.”
“Watching season four episodes — the feeling of normalcy, of connection, of being able to laugh. I’m so grateful to be with our fans and live-tweet. It’s almost like Tuesdays are the only time I know what day of the week it is! I put lipstick. I feel like a real person, just to sit in the before for just a second.”
Talking to bisexual showrunner Liz Tigelaar about the intense and beautiful Hulu series that builds on the original in the best way possible: making it way gayer.
There’s who you’re physically/romantically attracted to, and then there’s who you want to date, and then there’s who you want to sleep with — and all of these can be different things, all of which can also change! Yet we’re expected to align under a single label.
Megan Rapinoe, Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi spent four hours delivering hot takes on Insta live; Batwoman’s Meagan Tandy on Sophie Moore and season two; a Parks & Rec reunion, and more!
Much like the Hernandez sisters, Vida is Tanya Saracho’s bar, her nightclub — and no one gets to push her out before last call without a fight. Few get to say that they’ve truly made history. That what they’ve touched won’t be the same after they’ve gone. Television won’t be the same after Vida. That’s just a fact.
The thing is: sometimes I like feeling disposable, like I’m just a bunch of holes that someone else is using for their pleasure. I know I’m fucking powerful, so sometimes I like to release control, let someone else do the work and have the power. That only works, though, when my boundaries are respected.
In this edition, we’ll look at the disparate impact the coronavirus is having on marginalized communities, rages about government competence and incompetence and muses about what accountability looks like in the age of Corona.