Do the Damn Thing, Part 2: Focus, Boundaries and Single-Tasking
You’ve crafted some longterm goals and set some realistic expectations. Now you’re ready to tackle the most important part of doing the thing: actually doing the thing.
20 of the Best LGBTQ Graphic Novels of 2018
From memoirs to how-to’s to love stories to sports to space, 2018 was another brilliant year for graphic novels written by queer people about queer people.
For Your Consideration: Throwing a Highly Specific Themed Party For No Particular Reason
Here’s a secret: The best parties actually have no occasion attached (sometimes the occasion is that you feel dead inside).
Pop Culture Fix: Some “Killing Eve” Season 2 Photos For You to Think About All the Time and Other Stories
Topics include a sneak peek at Killing Eve Season 2, Sabrina’s Lachlan Watson journey “from lesbian to trans to non-binary,” “thank u next” co-writer Victoria Monet on coming out as a queer black woman, a lot of things about The Favourite, Christmas movies ranked by queerness and so much more!
Anonymous Sex Toy Review: TuLips
This toy is a reasonably priced, absolutely fine version of a clit vibrator.
“In Between” Review: The Super Gay, Super Feminist Film No One’s Talking About
No false promises of “girl power” or happiness. Just a reassurance that being alone together is better than being apart.
Oh, Hey! It’s Alyssa #61: Loose Ends
It’s sometimes funny, the things we find ourselves feeling attached to…
No Filter: Samira Wiley and Lauren Morelli Are the World’s Cuddliest Humans
Come for Teddy Geiger’s thirst traps, stay for Ellen Page’s Christmas soup.
POST-HOLIDAY MERCH SALE: 20% Off Everything in the Autostraddle Store
Celebrate the end of #20GAYTEEN with 20% off everything in the Autostraddle store! We’re pretty sure that your happiness and our future depends on it.
TODAY ONLY — All A+ Members Get 25% Off in the Autostraddle Store
Today only, A+ members get an extra-special deal on Autostraddle merch!
OPEN THREAD: Do You Need a Little Gay Christmas Right This Very Minute
I will bring the peppermint bark!
Make Susie Gay, You Cowards: On The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Lesbian Problem
This was gonna be a review of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel but instead it’s just an entire thing about how Susie Myerson is a butch lesbian who works at a club surrounded by lesbian bars frequented by other butches and yet somehow she is not, officially, a lesbian, and neither is anybody else on this usually delightful show!!!
Monday Roundtable: Eggnog?
Y/N?
“Goddess Mode” Is The Cyberpunk Magical Girl Comic of My Dreams and Also My Reality
I absolutely adore all parts of this comic because all elements of it perfectly straddle two tones. The first, a serious critique of actual modern issues of socially applied technology and the second, something we’re all in serious need of these days: a good gay romp.
The Queer Spirits of Christmas Past
Demonic witch queens are always queer. Fact.
Sunday Funday Is Still Dazzled By Tessa Thompson in Her “Men in Black” Suit
Plus: a teenage girl is battling homophobia with cake batter, women carpenters are building homes for the houseless, lesbian football, and all the gay clubs in Utah that are open on Christmas, and more!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Homo For Holidays
The holidays make people horny, apparently (?). Plus when vulvas taste like vulvas, why exes are a plague this time of year, a cis-trans lesbian couple who found each other in the closet and more.
Femme Brûlée: Dark Chocolate Salted Peppermint Bark
It’s simple, delicious, festive, and so easy to make!
Grease Bats: Lonely
“I went to a museum ALONE. Then I treated myself to a fancy coffee ALONE. Then I worked in the library ALONE. Then I bought this sweater ALONE.”
EXCUSE ME, Did Kristen Stewart Get A New Girlfriend While We Weren’t Looking?
Is Kristen Stewart walking around Los Angeles drinking to-go juice with a new paramour?!?! We investigate!