“Gentefied” Will Drop Brown Queer Love Bombs All Over Your Netflix Queue
Put quite simply, it feels damn good to see two Latina lesbians fully themselves, accepted by their loved ones, and at no point expected to leave their queerness at the door.
Yao Xiao’s “Everything Is Beautiful, And I’m Not Afraid” Is as Queer and Hopeful as The Comic You Already Love
Everything Is Beautiful is one part beloved comics, one part brand new material, and all parts trademark Yao Xiao — warm colors, probing questions, deeply personal reflections, and an endless exploration of the binaries Yao has spent her life trying to navigate.
Lesbian Romance Novels to Read When You’re Perpetually Single
I’ve been single for most of my life, but romance novels have been my constant partner.
What Would the Decriminalization of Sex Work Look Like?
As Vermont became the second state to introduce a bill to decriminalize sex work, the real possibility of decrim future is on our horizon. But how would decrim take shape in the United States? Would the police still arrest sex workers? Will sex workers get labor rights? And what about human trafficking?
Also.Also.Also: After 14 Years the Dixie Chicks Are Back, Update Your Misandrist Playlists!
The Dixie Chicks are back baby, black-owned queer fashion companies to support with your coin, and political links to make you go “hmmmm” (but NOT stress out) this Super Tuesday!
Dealing With Rejection as a Single Woman
It’s so easy to take a “no” personal and use it as justification to question your worth. However, there are a number of ways to intervene before this happens, and they’re all relatively simple.
How Does It Feel to Be Young and Gay Divorced?
When we legally and symbolically bind ourselves together, we’re exchanging some of that fluidity for commitment. Once we marry, breaking up is hard — I mean, really hard — to do.
I Care But I’m Restless, I’m Here But I’m Really Gone: A 2020 Presidential Election Roundtable
The 2020 presidential election is a classic Alanis Morissette one hand preparing our dystopian bunker, the other one playing the piano, situation. Our writers and editors tell us about their greatest concerns and how they’re approaching their votes.
Pop Culture Fix: “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” Team Protest Polanski’s César Award Win With a Walkout
Adèle Haenel and Céline Sciamma walked out of the French César awards, Clifford the Big Red Dog has two lesbian moms now, Stephanie Beatriz on bi erasure, a Wynonna Earp favorites marathon, Janet Mock and Ryan Murphy are tag-teaming again, Marla Gibbs joins ODAAT, and more!
“To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 310: Losing the Light and Also Our Damn Minds
LAUGH THRU THE PAIN
Sunday Funday’s Reflection Shows Who We Are Inside
It’s March and we’ve got Mulan news, IG book accounts, These Thems, trans olympians, and more! Happy Sunday!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Mastering Pain
How to stop yearning and make your own magic instead, figuring yourself out, tell a friend their partner is bad without using those words and more.
Queer Horoscopes for March 2020: Pisces Season Takes Us Into the Dreamworld
This Pisces season brings sweetness and stability, with a twist at the end as Saturn moves into Aquarius and reminds us of the struggle.
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 66, February 2020
I think it’s very Cancer of me to watch Mary Lambert’s “She Keeps Me Warm” music video on Valentine’s Day just so I could feel my heart clench and cry a little.
Ain’t I A Bottom
Many Black women are raised to give our apparent struggles the stiff upper lip. We’re taught to be loud, and proud, and bigger than the world sees us. And at the end of all of that effort, in my most private and intimate moments, I wish to lay my burdens down. Ain’t I a bottom?
The Dyke Kitchen: What’s In Your Breakfast Sandwich?
Breakfast is personal. Like your underwear. Which is sometimes really sexy and totally worth the attention of strangers, and other times, is really just for you, or totally non-existent.
Baopu #70: Resisting Conformity
I could always try harder to fight the urge of conforming to the path of least resistance.
Boobs on Your Tube: Shondaland’s Bisexual Firefighter and Dr. Orgasm Are The Crossover Queer Romance You’ve Waited For
Grey’s Anatomy and Station 19 are giving the gays everything that they want. Plus updates on All American, Black Lightning, God Friended Me, Deputy, and Nancy Drew!
Style Thief: The Jumpsuits of “L Word: Generation Q”
The L Word: Generation Q featured ten jumpsuits in eight episodes of its triumphantly stylish first season. By popular demand, we have produced for you how to get a similar look for your own self.
Extra! Extra!: Conservative Supergroups and Progressive Campaign Organizing, Oh My!
This week’s Extra, Extra! brings you some reflections on the 2020 US election (not the primary!) from our beloved political writer and 2020 Democratic Debate Recapper Natalie, more disheartening immigration and LGBTQ+ news, conservative organizing, a new progressive campaign arm from AOC, and an update on the Wet’suwet’en land protectors.