Baopu #37: Turn Me Upside Down
I feel like I’m stuck being the ‘now me.’
Ari Fitz’s New Series Takes a Closer Look at Getting Dressed
“60 Second Fitz” brings the fashion, and the feelings.
LGBT Immigrants Brace Themselves for DACA’s Devastating End
“We’ll continue resisting because as LGBTQ folks, as immigrant folks, we have been resisting, since the day we have decided to live authentically and unafraid and unapologetically.”
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: I Wanna Guard Your Dreams And Visions
What happens when you stop asking “what now?” and start answering it? Also what are you up to this long weekend? Let’s hang out!
The Comment Awards Are Looking Very Shane Today
“Glad to see my initial horror at being sent from Autostraddle to an article titled “Murderer Fingered By Parrot” was at least partially misplaced.”
Things I Read That I Love #245: Listening to a Sad Song Can Become a Way of Pushing on a Bruise
Topics include sorority fashions, Taylor Swift, plus-size fashion, being a minority in start-up media, that Piece of Shit Joe Arpaio, Kathy Griffin, emo and more!
Boob(s On Your) Tube: “Claws” and “Dark Matter” Didn’t Quite Live Up to Their Queer Potential This Summer
“These stupid white dudes fighting (with Whitney Houston playing in the background!!) while this black woman waits for them to tire themselves out so she can fix their problems. As ridiculous as it is, it’s my absolute favorite scene of the entire first season…and a fitting metaphor for the moment our country is in.”
I Tried To Conduct an Interview with a Vampire and All I Got Was This Vague Sense of Impending Doom
“I can’t pay my rent with being a vampire, Rachel… can I?”
Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for September 2017
“Eclipse season officially ends this month, as the Full Moon in Pisces on the 6th closes out this lunar cycle. Everyone breathe a deep sigh of relief… and take a moment to check out where you’ve landed.”
Enneagram Types: Get Uncomfortably Real With Our New Favorite Personality Test
You might already know your Meyers-Briggs, your Hogwarts house and your astrology chart, but do you know your Enneagram type? You should find out!
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 38, August 2017
“guys do you think i’ll ever have sex in a penthouse with floor to ceiling windows and a view
like while i’m still young enough to be bendy”
Photoessay: Electric Dirt and Radical Community with Queer Appalachia
Queer Appalachia celebrated the release of Electric Dirt: A Celebration of Queer Voices and Identities from Appalachia and the South while raising funds for Southerners on New Ground and oh, having a Queer Granny Witch party!
“Sonic Mania” Is a ’90s Kid’s Dream Come True
Sonic Mania isn’t just heavy on nostalgia; it’s a really good video game.
“Whitney: Can I Be Me”: An Intimate, Heartbreaking Portrait of Houston’s Life and Long-Rumored Bisexuality
“While Can I Be Me speculates that Houston was bisexual, no one seems willing to define her connection to Crawford as anything other than a solid friendship.”
NEW MERCH ALERT: Safe Space Enamel Pins
Be the safe space you want to see in this world with this tiny but mighty enamel pin!
Lez Liberty Lit: Take Up Space
The beauty of language in translation, reading the classics while black, top 10 books about tyrants for no reason, parties as literary devices and more.
Pop Culture Fix: Get Your Hot Takes Ready for the Queerish “Heathers” Reboot
Also, the trailer for season two of One Mississippi, a note from a lesbian writer on The Bold Type, Stephanie Beatriz chatting up Cameron Esposito, and more!
38 Lesbian and Bisexual Women From History Who Did That Thing First
What do the first Chinese-American filmmaker, the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the first woman to wear man-tailored shorts at Wimbledon all have in common? They had romantic feelings about other women, just like you!
Here’s How to Help LGBT Houstonians After Hurricane Harvey
On Thursday, I heard we were going to have some rain over the weekend, and now the city that I have lived in my whole life is underwater. How do you grieve such a catastrophic loss?
Foolish Child #30: Everything’s Just Fine
“Wait! Don’t leave me all alone here with this white guilt!”