Buffy’s Silent Episode Was an Elegy for Its Gays
It’s no accident that one of the first major lesbian relationships in television history began in an episode where no one was able to talk.
A+ Roundtable: The Things We Did for the Money We Needed to Survive
Capitalism! So neat!
Sunday Funday Is Celebrating Samira Wiley’s First Emmy Award Win!
Plus: Queer kids books, drag queen story hour, better laws for LGBTQ elders, queer designers at New York Fashion week, and more!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Using Their Jade Egg for Display Only
Running a sex-toy store, why people are into feet, the truth about jade eggs and more.
Y’All Need Help #28: Being Careful With Your Sex Eyes
Keeping it casual with straight gals, wondering if your kid and divorce will torpedo your lesbian dating life, and feeling disconnected from the queer community post-breakup. Plus some updates from past advice seekers! Let’s go!
Yo! That’s Not Cool #14: I Want to Be Free
No. Yo hair is nappy and wild.
Take Autostraddle’s Important Lesbian and Queer Stereotypes Survey!
Are the things we say about ourselves — and the things they say about us — true? If thousands of people take this survey, we’ll finally know!!! Be one of them today.
The 2018 WNBA Finals Tip-Off Tonight!
But the story of this match-up between the Storm and the Mystics started eight years ago.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Let’s Talk About Back To School Season (Whether You’re A Student Or Not)!
IS GRAD SCHOOL GOING TO BE THE THING THAT FINALLY MAKES ME START DRINKING COFFEE, EVEN THOUGH I REALLY HATE THE TASTE AND DO NOT WANT TO DRINK IT?!
The Comment Awards Believe in Jenny Schecter
“I threw all my chicken soup out the window upon reading this, for IT WILL NOURISH ME FOREVER.”
Everything Is Queer Community: Instagram, the Void, and #SoftEggContent
Why did we all want to share this thing? What made some videos so appealing? Why…are we like this?
The Newbie’s Gentle Guide to “Doctor Who”
If you’re overwhelmed by Doctor Who’s 50-year history but want to get into it for the first time for the first woman Doctor, this guide’s for you!
The Real-Life LGBT Outlaws of the American West and Writing Queerness Back to Historical Fiction
Each of these small bits of history made me hungry for more information, and brought home how many stories — especially those about queer folks — have been lost, compared to those few that have survived. I wanted to imagine queer people where they must have been, in shipyards and customs offices and coastal boom towns. I wanted them to be in love, to be gender outlaws and survivors, to triumph.
One Pen to Rule Them All: Our Favorite School Supplies
Raise your hand if you will buy all the school supplies whether or not you’re actually in school at the moment.
Harlots’ Season Two Is Queer, Here, and Transcendent
Harlots’ second season has five queer women and a story that proves sex worker narratives are uniquely capable of illuminating the restless, uncomfortable gender dynamics and power structures that may experience shifts in style or public acceptance, but never by degrees of import or influence.
How to Behave at Boarding School
“Boarding school teaches self-possession repeatedly and thoroughly, because it teaches you how to be in control when you’ve made every effort to be out of it.”
You Can Leave Your Partner Who Scares You
“I’ve been dating this person for four years who is genuinely the light of my life but has some anger management issues. Though they would never, ever turn that anger towards me, it still terrifies me just witnessing it. They are aware of it, but I don’t think they’ll ever go to therapy about it. They don’t really want to even though they acknowledge it’s a problem.”
Princess Bubblegum and Marceline Smooch On-Screen, Live Happily Ever After in the “Adventure Time” Series Finale
Adventure Time’s hour-long finale, “Come Along With Me,” was everything I hoped for (and more) — it was weird and sad and silly and funny and harrowing and so quietly profound I’ll be thinking about it probably forever.
Pop Culture Fix: Kristen Stewart’s Screenwriting Debut Includes Line “Her Hand In My Wide-Open Cunt” and Other Stories
Topics include Kristen Stewart’s take on women’s sexuality, “The Purge” kicking off with a bisexual threesome, Hayley Kiyoko’s ModCloth campaign, Lily Allen’s “seeing female sex workers” phase, “Law and Order: Hate Crimes,” Cynthia Nixon is not Miranda, Lauren Jauregui’s NYLON cover and so much more!
9 Tips for Surviving Grad School With Mind and Body Intact
It’s easy to get caught up in how difficult grad school is, and to use that difficulty as an excuse to slack off on taking care of yourself, but the skills you build now will follow you into your career. It’s more important than ever to really make time and space for YOU, and I don’t just mean bubble baths.