“Riverdale” Episode 415 Recap: No One Does Revenge Quite Like Betty Cooper
Jughead’s fate is finally revealed.
“Dispatches from Elsewhere” Includes a Complex Trans Character in Its Immersive Theatre Plot
Simone’s transness and need to transition is never doubted – it’s just not enough to rid her of all her problems.
19 Lesbian Cultural Practices Appropriated By “Love Is Blind”
In other words, straight people are not okay.
Seven Sensual Drag and Burlesque Acts Bringing Black Joy to D.C.
Spaces that center and uplift Black performers create a magic you can feel. Meet seven of Washington D.C.’s drag and burlesque performers bringing palpable Black queer joy to the stage.
Courting Loneliness
It was like saving a seat on the bus for someone who routinely happened to never show up. It was like setting the table for someone who decided to eat an hour before coming over for dinner.
A Rent-Stabilized Room of Her Own
In many ways, the deluge of hilarious, shitty, and hilariously shitty roommates I survived all offered the same thing: an excuse to not have to face myself.
Breakups and Being Alone 101: The Autostraddle Guide To Life After Love
We’ve got advice on breakups and exes, playlists to see you through, unhinged behavior we highly recommend and so much more from the annals of Autostraddle’s achy breaky hearts.
Dice for Every Kind of Queer Dungeons & Dragons Player
Friend, you deserve some gorgeous dice to roll when you’re storming the castle, arguing with a dragon, or flirting with that drow chick that your DM refuses to rank on a scale of hotness (but you’re confident is an 11).
“Love Is Blind” Is Basically a Lesbian Reality Show for Straight People — and I Can’t Get Enough of It
This show forces straights to do what lesbians do all the time — talk about their deepest fears and feelings, endlessly.
Super Tuesday Breakdown: Biden’s Swift Rise Really Doesn’t Have to Be the End
Yes, there’s Biden and Bernie and Elizabeth Warren, but also what about the smaller races you didn’t even know you cared about — like Georgette Gomez vying to become the first out queer Latina in Congress!
How Social Media Fucked Up Lesbian Breakup Culture
Breakups are so often garbage and hard, and managing the social media that surrounds it is just another gross layer that makes them even more garbage and even harder.
Pop Culture Fix: One Day at a Time’s First Look Season 4 Photos are Here and Queer!
Also, Lena Waithe’s Twenties lands tonight on BET, Rachel Maddow also thinks Super Tuesday is bananas, a mermaid war is on the way, Jodie Comer on Villanelle’s vulnerable side, and more!
No Filter: USWNT Are The Best Aunties Imaginable, Will They Be Mine?
Also! Trace Lysette looks like a million bucks, Samira Wiley votes, Gaby Dunn wears the gay woman uniform and Kristen Kish loves art.
“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.