At its core, By Hook or By Crook is about brotherhood. It’s about the unlikely connections people make through the unfortunate and unfair conditions of their lives. It’s about how those connections can blossom into something much brighter and more beautiful than they could ever imagine.
Julia Fox once noted the existence of a gay bone in her body, but today she was ready to extend the gayness to her entire skeleton, calling herself “that lesbian” in response to a funny TikTok.
In today’s pop culture fix — the ‘Agatha All Along’ teaser, Reneé Rapp hints at a new album, three out of five of the top Billboard artists are queer women, and more!
With her new book Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable, Sarah Gerard forces us to reckon with ourselves and how we approach the world around us.
If the pop charts are any indication, it’s officially Sapphic Girl Summer.
Now that Pride’s over, you’ve got to figure out what your new personality is going to be for the rest of the summer. We can help!
“Is that…a…spider?”
“Sometimes I feel like I’m a fake queer person because I’m not massive on queer culture, sometimes, I feel that liking girls is not enough?”
At the White House Pride Party, we, two queer Jews, were escorted out for protesting on behalf of Palestinian Freedom.
You moved in with your girlfriend and now she’s annoying the f*ck out of you. Also; some major small-town poly drama!
Tig Notaro recently discussed what it was like to come out to her eight-year-old sons. Hearing Tig’s words made me think about my own kid.
Through the Lesbian Herstory Archives, Noor Aldayeh is making space for queer Palestinians to tell their own stories.
“I think the fewer examples there are of fat people or people writing about fatness, the more we expect from individuals, when fatphobia is a systemic problem. What I really want to see is just all of the stories.”
Struggle does not inherently hold more import than comfort and freedom and rebellion and escape.
Also Megan Thee Stallion is so beautiful it makes me physically ill.
It is radical for a woman like Megan, who has had her sexuality be used against her, reclaim it in a way that recenters her pleasure.
“For nearly the last seven years, I’ve felt incredibly lucky to have known Autostraddle from the inside out, every corner and nook and cranny, because I loved it first as a reader.”
Growing up in a Missouri trailer park, Chappell has been outspoken about the Midwest as a center of cultural revolution.
“A few years back, my best friend got married, moved to the suburbs, and had kids.”
As usual, all genres are represented, but there’s a surprising amount of creepy reads in the thriller/horror realm coming out the rest of summer.