This summer I want to kiss girls. Girls sticky with lipgloss, girls purple with lipstain, girls sweet with cherry chapstick. I dream about kissing girls in my car (front or back seat). I dream about kissing them in the shade or in the sun. We are always a little bit sweaty and smelling like grass. We are always kissing to music.
Plus, Cheryl and Toni slow dance!
Handmaid’s Tale Season Three promises revolution and darkness, Kristen Stewart talks about pressure to define her sexuality, Suranne Jones hired a lesbian sex consultant for “Gentleman Jack,” Clairo on not being straight, writers from Pose and Boomerang and Good Trouble discuss LGBTQ rep, and so much more!
“I can’t explain how unreal it felt to be able to let my guard down with a big group of strangers on a hike.”
These are all love stories.
Also: Samira Wiley’s time-traveling, Tessa Thompson’s slow dancing with herself, and Janelle Monáe is maybe on her way to the moon.
Moraga’s latest, “Native Country of the Heart,” is a deep meditation on memory — reflections of the past, recalling hard moments, losing ourselves, and remembering who we are as Mexican-Americans, in more ways than one. She spoke to Autostraddle about her new book and the journey her queer feminism has taken over the course of her career.
Taurus season is in full bloom — whatever your relationship is to embodiment and pleasure, expect it to change this month.
“SHIT WAS GAY HEATHER
SHIT HAS BEEN GAY”
Truly there is no way to summarize this bonkers episode but just know there are books and treadmills and whips involved in Avalance’s plotline.
12. Punch me in line for prison cabbage
“Towards the end of the night you fall and tear the skin on your knee. But you pop back up and keep skating. You’re relieved. Now that you’ve fallen once you know you’ll be okay.”
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but it is perfectly fine and legal to ask someone for directions when you are lost.
I pulled these nuggets of little gold from all three hours of Endgame and I cannot wait to re-live them in obsessive, snarky detail with you!
“She soon gave me the golden lock – threw herself on the chair by me. We wept (& kissed).”
Alex and Kelly help James with his PTSD while Lena confides in Kara and Dreamer is an inspiration to us all.
The Gay Agenda returns!
Plus: Springtime Mary Oliver from the Atlantic archives, ButchCamp, grandparents are getting more gay-friendly, the stuntwomen of the MCU, teenage lesbians trolling homophobic politicians, and oh so much more.
Did you know that the Autostraddle.com post for each episode of To L and Back contains a VERY useful index of ideas and trivia referenced in the episode? Because it does!
Seize control of your image! Be hot as a form of revenge! Do it for you! Just feel good about something in a time when it’s so easy to feel bad about everything!