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Podcasts The L Word

“To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 306: Lifesize with Jes Tom!

The “To L and Back” podcast is plunging RIGHT back in to the sloppy mud of Season Three! This week, comic Jes Tom joins us to discuss “straight” Dylan, strap-on dimensions, cheaters, birds and Sleater-Kinney!

Riese February 3, 2020 4 Comments
Society + Culture

Sunday Funday Loves The Big Game with Ellen and Portia

Happy Sports Sunday! We’ve got gay Super Bowl commercials, queer books that won’t make you sad, parks being named after Marsha P. Johnson, stories about little known queer history, and more!

Ari February 2, 2020 9 Comments
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Among The Ashes

TikTok and porn aesthetics, the fisting emoji obvs, how to initiate sex without feeling awkward and more.

Ryan Yates February 2, 2020 4 Comments
LGBT History

Black Queer People Writing Ourselves Into History: An Autostraddle Master List

We want this year’s Black History Month to be serious. But also – sexy, fun, JOYful. We want to reflect the multiple ways that black people see ourselves and walk through our world. And so, we begin here. By writing ourselves back into our own history.

Carmen Phillips February 1, 2020 4 Comments
Recipes

The Dyke Kitchen: Dishes inspired by Chani Nicholas, Tracy Chapman & Bette Porter

The concept for today’s cooking adventures: making dishes inspired by three iconic lesbians who influenced us, and who we’d also want to invite to a dinner party to experience them experiencing our food — yes, very gay.

Kamala Puligandla February 1, 2020 10 Comments
Webcomics

Baopu #69: Coming of Age

I don’t want my life before America to become abstract, but the distance in space and time makes some loss inevitable.

Yao Xiao February 1, 2020 2 Comments
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Queer Horoscopes for February 2020: Find What’s Real and Start Anew

In a year full of pressure, February brings some cosmic sweetness that can help heal or hearts—or encourage escapism.

Corina Dross February 1, 2020 6 Comments
TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: Those Thunder Grace Kisses Are Sparking up Black Lightning!

Plus updates on Nancy Drew, All American, Arrow, and The Bold Type!

The TV Team January 31, 2020 5 Comments
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Into the A+ Advice Box #10: Is She Straight or Into You? Can You Dress Gay? and More!

Be the cool queer cousin you wished for as a kid, the polite way to turn someone down, sex is still great without an orgasm, creating your own queer community when you feel alone in the world, and 20 other questions from everyday readers like you!

the team January 31, 2020 18 Comments
TV News & Trailers

Wait, This New Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara Movie Is NOT a “Carol” Sequel?

I guess this is Guillermo del Toro’s remake of the 1947 film noir Nightmare Alley, which, according to the plot summary I just read on Wikipedia, is literally Pretty Little Liars.  

Heather Hogan January 31, 2020 9 Comments
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In Honor of Rude Women

“I aspire to be described as terrible and lovely.”

Rachel January 31, 2020 29 Comments
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The Comment Awards Just Really Love Bees

“I made a little poem. ‘Rebecca and Tess? YES.'”

Darcy January 31, 2020 41 Comments
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“Good Trouble” Episode 213 Recap: Daylight

Alice levels up her lesbian drama and her boundaries!

Natalie January 30, 2020 2 Comments
TV Show Recaps

“Riverdale” Episode 411 Recap: Does Anyone Remember That Cheryl and Toni Exist?

I wish the relationship writing for Cheryl and Toni had an equal depth and dimension to it, but nay. They sort of just exist together these days.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 30, 2020 3 Comments
TV Reviews

“Tommy” Review: Edie Falco’s Los Angeles’ Lesbian Police Chief Steps Into a Complicated Legacy

Her sexuality, it seems, has been something of a personal and career liability, and part of the series will see her grappling to turn it into something empowering.

Heather Hogan January 30, 2020 18 Comments
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Lez Liberty Lit: Take Up Space In The World

The discourse around American Dirt, finding gay hope in The Bluest Eye, what it’d be like if books had smells and more.

Ryan Yates January 30, 2020 1 Comment
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 65, January 2020

“Sometimes with people my age it’s like are you gay or do you just live in a major city.”

Riese January 30, 2020 16 Comments
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“Work in Progress” Is Too Much and So Am I

Throughout its eight episodes Work in Progress showed the value in being there for people even when it’s hard – and the importance of knowing when to walk away.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 30, 2020 19 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: We’re Getting a Fisting Emoji in 2020, Goddess Bless Us Everyone

Lesbian beachside weddings, how to delete what facebook knows about your life, queer people want their therapists to call them out, new 2020 emojis are more gender-inclusive than ever, and more news to close out your week!

Carmen Phillips January 30, 2020 20 Comments
TV Reviews

“Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina” Part Three Review: A Muddled Magical Mess

In the end, Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina delivers an exciting finale, but it isn’t enough to justify the disorder that precedes it, and it also feels like show repeating the same story it has done before.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 29, 2020 2 Comments
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