25 Lines of Poetry I Think About Once a Day
It’s National Poetry Month, so I become a poetry hound, sniffing out new books and revisiting old ones, finding solace, rage, love, and beauty in some of the words crafted by writers I truly admire.
Lost Lesbian Lit: Murder! At the Retirement Home
My only positive memory of my grandma was our last, the one time I was with her as myself.
Danny Lavery on What It’s Like To Be an Advice Columnist
“I would imagine a lot of the same things draw to advice columns that draw everyone, which is just that same impulse to run outside if somebody says there’s a fight.”
Send Me to Low Femme Paradise
The problem of having to have a body in the world again.
Meg Jones Wall on Queer, Expansive Tarot
“What if we just let all of these cards have gender neutral pronouns and we break them free from these gender binaries and let them be every archetype?”
Lost Lesbian Lit: Mommy Issues! At the Women’s Writers Retreat
Lost Lesbian Lit is a series of essays about lesbian literature from before 2010 with fewer than 25 ratings on Goodreads.
Congratulations to the 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalists!
Revisit Autostraddle’s reviews and interviews with this year’s Lambda Literary 2023 shortlisted books and authors.
Omise’eke Tinsley’s “The Color Pynk” Celebrates Black Femme Art for Survival
A beautiful commitment to and demonstration of Black femme poetics, The Color Pynk offers a radical alternative to the genre of the academic book, one that celebrates Black queer language as its own tactic of freedom-dreaming.
“Ingredients for Revolution” Offers a New Look at Social Justice Movement History
Cafes became hubs for marginalized members of the communities they were in, and learning their history helps us understand the power of their impact.
Nicole Morse Wants You To See Trans Feminist Futures in Selfies
Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art is a book about selfies and our relationships to them.
Marika Cifor Wants You To Activate Your Nostalgia for ACT UP
Marika Cifor’s new book Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS explores how LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS archives shape our understanding of history.
A Memoir Isn’t a Self-Help Book
Author Jeanna Kadlec talks about her new memoir Heretic, the loss of leaving a life, gay Bible stories, and more.
When Survival Isn’t Just About Yourself
Writer Blair Braverman talks preppers, survival, queer love, and her gripping new novel, Small Game.
Ciara Smyth’s Queer YA Books Remind Me of Being a Teenager
The Falling In Love Montage (2020) and Not My Problem (2021) are as hilarious as they are moving.
A Queer Woman’s Place Is in the Horror Story
Domestic horror is gay as hell.
Chance and Error Are Friends to Sadie Dupuis’ Writing Process
Poet and musician Sadie Dupuis talks new collection Cry Perfume, scent and memory, and using autocorrect as a co-writer.
Interview With a Tranpire
It’s not hard to see the connection that trans readers and storytellers can find in vampire media.
Author Meryl Wilsner on Writing MILFs, Age Gaps, and Twisting Tropes
“We never learned to write books, we only learn how to write the book that we’re writing.”
The Unspeakable Shadows of Nightwood
You fear Nightwood because of what it reveals about you.
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya on Writing a Lesbian Horror Protagonist Who Has Been to Therapy
Autostraddle Managing Editor Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya’s debut book — Helen House, a queer horror novelette — comes out October 18.