You Need Help: When You’re Ace and You Want to Be More Than Friends
What to do when you have a crush on your roommate and you’re both asexual and are definitely more than just friends and definitely don’t know what to do about it.
Why I Got Off the Pacific Crest Trail After 454 Miles Instead of Walking All the Way to Canada
I stopped hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in 2017 because of toxic masculinity and bro culture in the hiking community. It exists, it’s shitty, and it fucked me up.
Monday Roundtable: Are We Your (Enneagram) Type?
A few months ago, some of us took the Enneagram test and felt extremely uncomfortable with the truths it revealed about us. As fun as that was, we thought it would be even more fun to make even more Autostraddle staff do it and also share their results with a large audience. Let’s see if we were right!
Winter Gym Class: CrossFit, for Those Who Want It All
This workout has it all—cardio, weightlifting, rowing, kettlebells, and more—and you can do it indoors. It’s the perfect activity to get you through the winter weather and beyond!
Sunday Funday is Working Hard and Staying Bumble on Super Bowl Sunday
Super Bowl LII commercial includes nonbinary person and lesbian couple, Detroit’s Black-owned honeybee hive that fights urban blight, the “gay best friend” trope except lesbian, super cute animal valentines for your gal pal-entines, an LGBTQ-inclusive super bowl party, portraits of LGBTQ people in India, and Remi’s A-Camp Family Band audition tape!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Sometimes Fakes Orgasms During Lesbian Sex
Lesbian sex doesn’t always lead to lesbian orgasms. Plus: What the side you hug someone on says about your emotional state, how rudeness spreads like the flu, why you keep thinking about that girl you had barely three dates with and more.
Femme Brûlée: Raspberry Champagne Cupcakes That Taste Like Requited Love
If you make these this month I promise they will bring love into your life, whether it’s self-love for making a dozen of them all for you, or the love and adoration of others that you feed them to.
Some Things: Waiting Period
I know the drill. A few weeks of feeling WEIRD.
Boob(s On Your) Tube: “9-1-1” Reveals Its Lesbian Character JUST AS WE PREDICTED WITH OUR SUPREME TV GAYDAR
Plus Mariah and Tessa are back on The Young and the Restless, Lucifer remembers Maze is bisexual, The Fosters finally gives us another kickass Lena episode and Corrie reveals its queer affair.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: The Stories We Tell Ourselves To Live
What stories do you tell yourselves in order to do what needs to be done?
The Comment Awards Are Signing Up for A-Camp!
“If Ventura is a ‘charmingly hip wine mom of a town’ does that make this the Mommi of A-Camps?”
Things I Read That I Love #256: Wearing Uniqlo Longjohns As Outside People Clothes
Topics include Dawson’s Creek, The Awl, Soulcycle, Negroni Season, Justin Timberlake in the woods, health care, “Rude,” The New York Times’ Style Section, RuPaul’s Drag Race and so much more!
You Need Help: Reacting to Misgendering in Public
“Why can’t I just let it roll off me? And do you think there’s a way to react that might make the situation a little less miserable for me?”
Straight People Watch: Winter 2K18
The holidays have come and gone, but straight people? Oh, they’re still here. More than ever.
Valentine’s Day Sex Toy Gift Guide For Even Hotter Lesbian Sex, If You Can Believe It
Sometimes Valentine’s Day is a patriarchal capitalist scam and sometimes you just want to eat some candy hearts and buy balloons and make out and unironically get into it.
Your New Favorite Music By Queer and Trans Artists To Check Out This Month
Here are five just-released albums/EPs/singles you should check out if you like queer women, gay boys, trans women, and the wonderful music that they make.
5 Lesbian and Bisexual Women Athletes to Watch in the 2018 Winter Olympics
Here are five out lesbian and bisexual women athletes from all over the globe to cheer for in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
“Monster Hunter World” Gives Gay Gamers the Gift of Fighting Alongside Cat Companions
Even if I don’t especially want to kill the dinosaurs, who have been killed enough by now in my opinion, seeing Budgie whacking a T Rex in the face with a lute that I made her to distract it long enough for me to chug a health potion really does just warm my heart.
Lez Liberty Lit: Let’s Hang In Lesbian Victorian London
Lesbian classic Tipping the Velvet turns 20. Plus mansplaining in the OED, RIP Ursula K Le Guin, Elena Ferrante’s new column and more.
Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for February 2018
If you’re caught in a bad pattern, or can’t shake heartbreak or anxiety, ask yourself: what else might be true right now that I can’t see?