Tips on Staying Sober Through The Holidays
Staying sober through the holidays can be anxiety inducing even for the best of us. Here are some tips to get through the big three!
Everyone You Love Wants New Autostraddle Merch This Season and We’ve Got Lots
“Think of me as your friendly Autostraddle Store Elf, guiding you through the kickass new merch we’ve added to store so you can support your favorite website and find that bone deep gift giving satisfaction.”
The Top 100 Queer and Trans Women of Color Television Characters in TV History
The television landscape is changing rapidly. Where does that leave lesbian, bisexual, and trans women of color on TV? Where have been, and more importantly — where are we going?
Holigay Gift Guide: Surprises For Your Favorite Stranded Babe
Whatever has your loved one stranded at home this season, perhaps they could use a little holigay cheering up!
Bette Porter 2020? The Final Vote!
The time has come to determine, once and for all, whether or not Bette Porter could win an election! This is it! The final round!
“Work in Progress” Is a Hilarious Triumph of Specificity
Allowing someone as funny and weird as McEnany to make a show that opens itself up to all the facets of herself is such a gift to us all.
Holigay Gift Guide: Secretly Queer Gifts For Your Openly Straight Friends And Family
If your best buddy is going to heterosexually date, she can at least be queer about it.
What We Love and Hate About Dating Pisces
The best Pisces I know are true empaths and sparks of light who I would trust with my deepest traumas, and the worst Pisces I know are chronic gaslighting sad bois.
“Riverdale” Recap 408: Therapy, Finally
Gina Torres arrives to fix everyone’s lives.
Bette Porter 2020? Mommi vs. The Youths in Round 6!
Four contestants remain! This is the last round before the FINAL ELECTION.
Pop Culture Fix: DC’s Gays Are Geared Up for Crisis on Infinite Earths
Lena Waithe’s Twenties trailer is here, more Generation Q news than you can honestly probably use, Laura Dern on The Puppy Episode, and Ryan Murphy’s Netflix adaptation of The Prom casts its lesbian lead.
Lena Waithe’s “Queen & Slim” Left Me Still Hungry for Black Queer Freedom
“For a work touted as blackness for Black people, Queen & Slim ultimately offers not hope or a way forward, but more images of beautiful Black corpses added to the growing canon of Black death for consumption. And I’m simply not able to keep bearing witness.”
55 of the Best Queer Books of 2019
From gorgeous graphic memoirs to epic fantasy tales, twisty thrillers, swoony romances, exceptional essay collections, and more, there’s an amazing queer book from 2019 on this list for everyone!
No Filter: King Princess and Dana Fairbanks Had The Best Time at The L Word: Generation Q Premiere
Janelle Monae’s birthday, King Princess and everybody else ever celebrates with the Generation Q cast and no, I still do not understand Amber Heard!
Foolish Child: #60: Cousins
Which cousin? You have like 500?
Always Be My Baby: Our Semi-Professional Opinions on What Keeps Queer Couples Together
“I think there’s an idea out there that love just HAPPENS to you and it’s magic and not something you have to nurture to ensure it grows and thrives. That’s… a lie.”
Holigay Gift Guide: For the Aspiring Witch in Your Life
Simple and accessible tools for reclaiming power and making a little magic.
Autostraddle’s Favorite and Least Favorite Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans TV Characters of 2019
Here’s what we loved this year and what we didn’t like very much at all. We’d love to hear your opinions too, obviously!
Bette Porter 2020? Five Fictional Los Angeles Gays Remain in Our Election!
Can Bette Porter pull this thing out? As I mentioned yesterday, she hasn’t won a single round of voting yet! She keeps getting edged out by the same person!
Queered & Careered: How I Use Journaling to Resist at Work
Need a ride or die bestie at work who will listen, affirm you, and help you process that recent microaggression? Turn right to your journal!