What Are Your Earliest Internet Memories?
“OMG ok i just remembered downloading and printing out nudes of LARA CROFT when i was like 11.”
The Comment Awards Are Nailing A Ring To My Door
“Della Champagne the gender-yeeting tarantula sounds like a queer icon, tbh.”
Beyond Survival: Rethinking The Humanity Of Those Who Harm
“Transformative justice”—the idea that communities can resolve and repair harm and abuse, as well as transform the conditions that led to them, on their own without the necessity of State intervention or by replicating the State’s carceral form of justice—looks good on paper, but there are still so many big questions.
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How to Avoid Someone at a Party, an explainer about why everyone is so mad about the new book “American Dirt”, and more news to help you along into the weekend!
“Riverdale” Episode 410 Recap: Consider “Dare Me” on USA
A look at two shows that confront the crushing pressure of high school athletics in divergent but visceral ways.
“Good Trouble” Episode 212 Recap: Gumboot Becky
Good Trouble continues its tradition of highlighting an increasing number of important issues that often go undiscussed, like opioid use among young people and education policy — but “Gumboat Becky” also shows a series that’s evolving and willing to address how it builds its own narrative.
A+ Roundtable: The Sex That Taught Us What We Really, Really Like
“I don’t know how to explain what that did to my guts, unless you know exactly what I mean in which case youknowwhatImean. It was so mind-blowing.”
The Heart Is The Podcast Your Queer Ears Have Been Waiting For
The Heart is essential queer podcast listening. Imagine an oozing volcano of punk-infused feminist hauntings and awakenings in your headphones.
Lena Waithe and Wife Alana Mayo Broke Up, We’re Back to Love Being a Lie
The couple originally announced their marriage just two months ago. Today is sad.
11 Multifunction Couple’s Toys for Making Your Own Fun this Valentine’s Day
We grow closer to people by figuring things out together. The best bonding experience is both of you creating it yourselves, and this Valentine’s Day you can do just that with these multi-function, flexible toys.
Pop Culture Fix: Just a Sweet Little “Wynonna Earp” and “One Day at a Time” Collision
Which She-Ra character should get the show’s only F-Bomb, a lesbian character on Disney’s Diary of a Future President, a queer fave back on Top Chef, and new trailers for Sabrina and Visible: Out on TV.
Glamorous Degradation: On Sex Workers and Authenticity in Cinema
When I watch these movies, I find myself writing fan fictions in my head: What details would I change, to make this piece of art truly for me, and for the community that I love? Maybe it’s simply that the sex workers on film would just be a lot more… regular.
“Legends of Tomorrow” Episode 501 Recap: Journey to the Past
The Legends are BACK and so are Sara and Ava, learning to navigate their post-Crisis relationship.
Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: January’s Uses of the Erotic
Introducing our new series: Year of Our (Audre) Lorde, a monthly analysis of works by queen mother Audre Lorde as they apply to our current political moment. First, how harnessing our erotic power can help us THRIVE!
No Filter: Bella Thorne Celebrates Mental Health, The Vida Cast Looks Amazing and Gigi Gorgeous Serves Fashion
Katie Sowers is going to the Super Bowl and Amber Heard looks great in her cast!
Chani Nicholas’ “You Were Born For This” Gives Us the Tools We Need to Understand Ourselves
Chani Nicholas’ debut astrology guide slash workbook gives you the keys to better understand yourself, if you are ready to commit to it.
Meet Autostraddle’s Newest Writers!
Come on in and meet the new kids! Who are actually all adults!
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Katie Sowers is the first lesbian to coach in a Super Bowl, San Francisco Pride bans corporations and cops from this year’s parade, and more mid-week reading!
2020 Is the Year of the Emperor; Are You Ready to Combine Structure and Growth?
The Emperor doesn’t have to be a symbol of everything that’s oppressed us, that’s harmed or damaged or traumatized us – instead, it can be an invitation to reclaim the foundations that have already been built, to shake them up and find ways to use them in new and empowering ways, or to tear them down and rebuild completely.
I Loved “Sex Education” Season Two — I Wish It Loved Me Back
What’s incredible about Sex Education, and especially this second season, is its ambition is to include everybody.