The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 55, March 2019
“i do love that you are holding barefoot wine in that nervous breakdown picture”
Trans Day of Visibility: An Autostraddle Community Photo Gallery
Almost 100 amazing humans sent pictures for our #TransDayOfVisibility Community Gallery! Get in here and celebrate our lives!
Sunday Funday Thinks Beyoncé Is Maybe the Only Straight Person We’re Okay With Winning a GLAAD Award
Also, get ready for the year of the Horse Girl and we have your post-Broad City-blues reading list. Happy Sunday!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Just Herself During Sex
What if you were just yourself? Plus: 19th century sex workers’ rights, tickling torture, why education and testing are the best way to address rising STI rates, and more.
Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #24
“It’s adorable that you thought this book with this premise might have anyone who *isn’t* a lesbian in it!”
Femme Brûlée: Vegan Chocolate Mousse
Use the best chocolate you can find. Queer life is hard and you deserve it.
Baopu #58: Anything But a Dream
I don’t have the kind of life I was ‘expected’ to have. How do I deal with the life I actually have, instead?
Autostraddle March Madness — Best Coming Out: International
You have 48 hours to vote for your faves!
Boobs on Your Tube: “Project Blue Book” Is Kind of Like “Carol” With UFOs
Plus updates on: The Good Fight, Grey’s Anatomy, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Will & Grace, Jane the Virgin, Legacies, Roswell, Riverdale and Now Apocalypse!
The Comment Awards Are Relishing the ’90s
If you wanna be my lover…
Queer Sex Coven: Have You Heard the Good News About Sex Magick
Sex magick is using your orgasms to cast spells. I’m going to teach you how to do it.
“Legacies” Is Queer Witches at Boarding School and You Should Absolutely Be Watching
And yes, it’s about exes who keep finding their way back into each other’s arms.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Riding the Gender Roller Coaster
How did you realize and/or develop your relationship to your gender identity or gender presentation, if at all?
Things I Read That I Love #286: It Was That Time Where Everyone Wanted To Be Edgy
Topics include kayaking in Alaska, taking Amtrak across the U.S., Queer Teen Stars, Cathy, Lindy West, frequent flyer mile obsessives, calories, the professional poet and more!
Getting in Bed With Kristin: Situationships, Invisalign, and Spike!
Come bask in Kristin’s vacation energy and get some loving advice at the same time!
Broad City’s Celebration of Romantic Friendship and Bisexual Culture Has Changed TV Forever
“Often we need the possibility of more not in order to reach it, but in order to stop just short of it, which is still far beyond where we would’ve landed had it not been there at all.”
Tomorrow’s Parties: Emily Dickinson’s Black Cake
Emily Dickinson sent her girlfriend, Nellie, her recipe for Black Cake that was so staggering (two pounds of flour, 19 eggs, etc) that it reads like one of her curiously queer poems. It seems impossible, but suggests the potential for a delicious celebration.
Queer Your Ears March 2019: New & Upcoming Releases from Queer & Trans Artists
We’ve got a good mix of tunes here this month: some hip-hop and EDM if you’re ready to bounce off that winter chill, some intense vibes and chill folk if you still want to hibernate for a bit — and of course a bunch in between.
All Bones and Blood and Breath: Remembering Barbara Hammer
Barbara Hammer was the evidence that living a queer life could be good, and long, and full of wonder at a time when I felt like this was all was out of reach.
Lez Liberty Lit Is Checking Out These Hot Literary Rivalries
Getting real about the financial realities of writing, creative forces of subculture, K-pop, the branded ephemera of Frida Khalo, and shedding books to survive academia.