In 1974 it felt like every American was watching President Nixon’s impeachment hearings. With a single speech, a black lesbian changed the opinion of a nation. She was only getting started.
Grace Choi finally gets the backstory we’ve been waiting on for TWO YEARS. Trust me, you’re going to want a box of tissues for this one.
On internal colonization, South Asian shame and representation of happy brown queers on film.
If I could have willed a book into existence, that book would be Stray City — so I talked to Chelsey Johnson about her debut novel and what it’s like to render queer community so intimately for the public.
The problem with birthdays, and graduations, is that endings and beginnings are so often the same thing. What we’re really celebrating is the motion, the opposite of stagnating, the skill of turning your head and blinking your eyes to see things in a new light, even if your feet and heart feel heavy and the landscape hasn’t changed.
Fuck. While fat. Don’t wait.
This entire season is so gay its nearly unquantifiable.
You’ve seen the show but do you really KNOW the show?
Nothing stays the same forever, and that includes our bods; here’s the Autostraddle team talking about how they’ve noticed their bodies aging and what that’s like.
Plus a moving tribute to Dolly Parton performed, of course, by Dolly Parton.
I claimed to be a kid who “just loved birthdays,” when what I really loved was a socially sanctioned reason to shower my crushes with affection.
What to do if you want to orgasm less quickly, open your relationship, talk about and address vaginal pain and more.
Plus: Janelle Monae opens up about being a black queer woman, Lena Waithe pens an op-ed in Time about Hollywood’s black renaissance, Sara Ramirez is going to bat for #20BiTeen on Twitter, Kristen Gillebrand is fighting for trans service members, Carol and Therese art for Valentine’s Day, and so much more!
Birthdays are the perfect time to ask people to take action. Why? People like you! They want to celebrate you! And on your birthday, they feel slightly more-obligated-than-usual to do what you ask of them!
Sometimes it’s hard to tell.
Plus: All American continues to showcase some of the best queer storytelling on TV, HTGAWM threatens Tegan’s life, Tig Notatro: Space Butch is back on Star Trek, Siren is getting closer to gay mermaids, and Legacies unburies a gay.
The jeans, the belt, the button-up; her sunglasses, her hair, the way she leans. The dyke energy coming off her is unmistakable.
“Well, now I need ‘Consider disengaging if you’re processing more than you’re fucking’ embroidered on a pillowcase.”
I want to hear about an embarrassing moment in public you’ve had! And then I want to hear how you SURVIVED it!
My grandparents and mother were crowded around my grandfather’s laptop; they had lit candles on a cake and sang happy birthday. I was about to make excuses to go back to studying when my grandmother mentioned the referendum. “You know, we’ll see your sister in a few weeks. She’s coming back for the vote.”