“I want to be referenced as she and her. I would love for you guys to call me Zaya.” Proud parent Dwayne Wade shares Zaya’s story. Sending our love to the family today!
The babe behind the buckles is Emma Alamo — a queer creator, a recovering alcoholic, a proud power bottom and business owner with serious hustle. Emma welcomed me into her studio and talked about social media, body image and building a career selling bondage gear.
With two on-screen queer women characters, “Birds of Prey” is an irate, sparkle laden, middle finger in the air to a society that otherwise cowers to the angry whims of men. Who the hell wouldn’t sign up for that?
Maria Bello, best known to Autostraddle readers for playing Coyote Mommi Lil Lovell in the 2000 lesbian cinematic masterpiece Coyote Ugly, showed up at Elton John’s Oscar party last night with longtime girlfriend Dominique Crenn in tow and announced that they were no longer able to fight the moonlight.
Black femmes won Oscars weekend, starring: Janet Mock, Janelle Monáe, Angelica Ross, Billy Porter, and MJ Rodriguez! Also, links about why we still don’t believe survivors, moms starting a housing rights revolution, and more.
Trying desperately to want less than what one truly requires — and the goodness that comes from giving up that ghost — is a prominent theme in “Something That May Shock and Discredit You,” Daniel Lavery’s new collection of essays, out Feb. 11.
Being invisible is in some ways a privilege. QTPOC who are visible are subject to scrutiny at best and violence at worst. I don’t want to talk about visibility. I’m still ashamed of the lonely, aching part of me that longs for recognition.
You can’t win in a world not meant for you, so I’m offering up the In Another World Issue as my attempt at creating some other option. We’re presenting you with the ways that bright, thoughtful, ferocious people are creating their own space. Worlds within and outside of this slippery one, full of answers and questions and buoyant hope tunnels.
Mal Blum pops in for this particularly hilarious episode of “To L and Back” as we officially begin the part of Season Three that makes us all want to slam our heads into the wall!
“Okay so Christian Bale plays… Mr. Ferrari. And Matt Damon plays… Henry Ford?”
Happy Sunday we’ve got awards coverage, movie reviews, remembering the suffragists, sober queer spaces, and pasta!
More queers use dating apps compared to straights; disclose your strep as well as your STI before hooking up; bussy; sex stains; and more.
New Hampshire voters go to the polls in three days. From Elizabeth Warren demonstrating growth when talking about the issues that matter for people of color to Biden’s continued slip away from the pack, here six takeaways from Friday’s debate.
“I’ve come to embrace that ‘lack of decorum’ that I grew up in.”
“A poorly organized night of chaos where you only have one minute to explain your interests, expectations, and what you’re looking for.”
Plus updates on All American, the Bold Type, and it’s time you start watching Party of Five.
Enemies to lovers! Yes! Let us feast on the gay angst!
Every couple fights. But when you’re a witch you have secret powers to make it all better.
“Somewhere, a Carol fan with editing skills and YouTube account is losing their mind right now.”
Rachel Maddow gets stronger by drinking the tears of her haters, Rosa Parks was a radical and don’t ever forget it, and more news to send you into the weekend.