Femme Brûlée: My Perfect Buttermilk Biscuits
I use these biscuits in all the ways. They’re my favorite vessels for breakfast sandwiches and swiping chili bowls but I also eat them hot and plain straight from the pan, or smothered in jelly.
Boobs on Your Tube: “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” Gives Rosa a Girlfriend and a Chance to Make Up With Her Mom
Plus ladies kissing on How to Get Away With Murder and Siren, and an update on General Hospital!
Mal Blum Invites You To Karaoke With Their New Single “Things Still Left To Say”
Sometimes the hardest part of being a person with a body is admitting how hard it is in the first place. So it goes in the newest single from Mal Blum, rock musician, friend of Autostraddle/A-Camp, and all around cool human.
The Comment Awards Love You! Yes, You!
“Crying in the gay bar right now.”
It’s A-Camp 2019 Campership Time: Apply For One, Donate Some Money
Read essays from our 2018 A-Camp Campership recipients and find out how to help send more lucky campers to this year’s celebration in Ojai!
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: I Wanna Know Who You Keep As Family
You know, I pull my family from everywhere. Tell me who makes up the family in your life, be it bio or chosen or something else entirely.
Things I Read That I Love #283: Wasted Again in the Dark Glow of Post-Breakup Tragic Freedom
Topics include stadium bathrooms, murder, “sportswriting’s filthiest fuck-up,” Heaven’s Gate fashion, handheld gaming, everyone else but you having money, the queer art of f*cking your friends and more!
Getting in Bed With Kristin: Coming Out, Getting Over Your Ex, and How to Do Therapy
This week, Kristin is live from Pittsburgh!
Birthing Disruption Between the Ferns and the Moss
If the ferns in my garden have survived the last few thousand years, then they have witnessed genocide and forced removal, tornadoes, the filling in of wetlands. Our acts of maintenance are political decisions. What we narrate and what we nourish set up the futures we are willing to fight for.
Queer Girl City Guide: Washington DC
Listen OK — the New York Times named Washington DC the Gayest City in America for a reason.
Lez Liberty Lit Is Writing Honestly About The Body
“Why are we so quick to conclude that marginalized writers’ work is autobiographical?” Plus books about love triangles, a secret lesbian code, why you need to start writing letters to trans people in prison and more.
Who Do You Love: @notallgeminis x Autostraddle Do Queer Valentine’s Day Memes
Happy Valentine’s Day! We heard you like astrology memes so we teamed up with @notallgeminis and made you this gift.
13 Easy Houseplants for Seasonally Depressed Gays and Their Cats
Will these plants solve real mental health issues? Absolutely not, but they might make you feel more alive for the next few months, and also your cat can gnaw on them to its heart’s content, the asshole.
How to Be a Grown Woman
“Maybe I could teach you how to do that and you could teach me a couple of things I’ve been wonderin’,” I told her. She shook my hand. It was a deal.
What I’m Saying Is You’re Stuck With Me
February 7th was our 14th dating anniversary and our 8th marriage anniversary. The truth is, I didn’t see myself married, in a house we own, with a child I carried, in a place in my life where I don’t want to move away or run off to the next tempting thing. I never thought I’d want stability, but here we are.
“Good Trouble” Episode 106 Recap: Imposter
Mariana has to explain boundaries to Raj again and Jazmin finally gets Gael to understand the bigotry she’s up against.
Foolish Child #39: Ace But Love Your Face
“Have you forgotten what the A in LGBTQIA stands for?”
Pop Culture Fix: Alison Brie and Sugar Lyn Beard are Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer on “Drunk History”
Plus: A trailer for The Bold Type’s third season, someone finally said “I’m gay” on the Disney Channel, Sandra Oh has some thoughts on Villanelle and Eve’s post-stabbing relationship, Lady Gaga and Janelle Monáe have a mutual love, and more!
No Filter: Evan Rachel Wood Gets Her Annual Westworld Body Cast, Signaling The End of Winter
Also, a behind-the-scenes look at Stephanie Beatriz’s One Day At A Time cameo and a Lena Waithe selfie that will stare into your very soul.
Young, Gifted, Black, and Closeted: Barbara Jordan’s Political Rise in a Country Not Yet Ready For Her
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.