As the daughter of lesbian mothers, I always knew I had a sperm donor, and that I could meet him when I was 18. I loved my moms; I loved my queer family. Still, I had always wondered what part of me was cut from a different cloth.
Plus some thoughts on this season of Queen Sugar!
Go ahed, scroll through her Instagram gallery yourself; I’ll wait.
This elderly lesbian couple’s gonna make your heart burst, some sweet non-elderly queer couples too, and Melissa Etheridge doesn’t seem too worried about getting arrested for pot possession.
Relationship autopilot does not exist, correcting bad texting, how to date someone with anxiety, the perks of sex in late-stage capitalism and more.
Answers to all the yes/no questions you sent in since last Tuesday!
“You can tell that now is a good time for Scout to finish their erotic novel ‘Buffy The Butt Slayer’ just from their astrological sign?”
It’s the most wonderful time of year so let’s spend it with our chosen family!
Work AND leave my house? Eat well AND go to bed on time? Hang out with other people AND also myself? How do you even do that? (No really, I’m actually asking you.)
We’re discussing We Were Witches and sharing a brilliant interview with author Ariel Gore. Come join Autostraddle Book Club – the comments are wide open and we wanna hear everything you’ve got to say about this book.
“Can confirm bisexuality to be even more luxurious than a fancy tin can.”
Vegetarian with allergies to nuts, coconuts, and sesame seeds? Well Julia Turshen has a delicious warm dessert (or breakfast!) for you!
I changed. But it was a gradual process, in the way a forest becomes stone. Petrified forest of a body.
“What a great city.”
“And then she told us there was another child — a baby — at a nearby hospital. Were we interested? We said yes even though we had a thousand questions and just as many concerns (why was he in the hospital? Where were his birth parents? Who was holding him when he cried?). That baby turned out to be our son.”
Kyle’s created a full Friendsgiving menu that accommodates about a dozen dietary restrictions, and she’s used an impressive graphing system to make it happen.
This Sunday is the day Kat Sandoval swaggers onto your teevee!
There are lots of great things about being a queer nerd, but maybe the best is that you get to be friends with other queer nerds. They’re really the best people. And they make great merch.
How to clean your decanter. Why you might use a decanter. Which decanters you should expressly not use.
‘Tis the season to get cute and cozy.