Photoessay: May Day March in Los Angeles
This year, unions and organizations came together across the country to push back on Trump’s immigration policies and showed how labor rights and immigrant rights intersect.
Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for May 2017
After April’s gentle lessons to release and surrender, May is here to get us into trouble.
Twitter Is the New Black Church
I grew up hearing stories from elders about how integral the black church was to their lives during the Civil Rights era. Being a queer woman, I never quite felt that same sense of camaraderie in the church. So I found my sanctuary on Twitter.
“Below Her Mouth” Predicts Six More Weeks of Shane
Let her rest.
Anonymous Sex Toy Review: The Bück Dich
“I like my fucking deliciously stressful, especially after a good spanking, and in the hands of a capable partner the business end of the Bück can provide.”
Artemis Is the Queer Girl Goddess BFF of Your Dreams
The mythology has her securing a promise of perpetual “virginity” from her father and immediately skipping off into the mountain forests with a group of like-minded nymphs. Together she and her women hiked, swam, lived off the land and viciously murdered any man who walked in on them naked.
Photoessay: ResisDANCE
When we (or our siblings) are under attack, stand up DANCE BACK.
7 Queer Disabled Folks On Why Air Travel Is Kind of a Nightmare
“The ADA tends to disintegrate in the hands of airlines and their staff, especially for POC and QTPOC, and it doesn’t matter if the law is on your side.”
Helping You Help Yourself #50
Storing plastic grocery bags, saying no, broken appliances, mini scrapbooks, keeping your energy up in stressful times and more!
Enjoy This 10 Second Play About Lesbians
“A woman enters the front door of a home that seems unfamiliar to her. She peers around, assessing.”
Sunday Funday Is Playing Dead to Avoid Men and Voting Trans Women Into Congress
Meet these cool dragonfly ladies who feign death to avoid dude dragonflies, a record number of trans women running for office, Democrats moving to outlaw conversion therapy, and more!
PHOTO GALLERY: Queer On The Outside
Your April community gallery is here! With more llamas than you’d think.
3 A.M.: Where Am I?
What on earth was that job interview?
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 34, April 2017
“i feel like one of the best parts of getting older is learning new and surprising things about yourself, like how hot older slytherin women are”
NSFW Sunday Is Hacking Sex Toys
How to get over your breakup, what even are the sex bases, a new collection of trans erotica, why anal is awesome and more.
8 More Women Gamers on YouTube and Twitch
Because you can never have a stable of too many awesome folks making video game videos without the heaping dose of toxic masculinity.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Repression
“Hey, how come you never talk about your crushes?”
What Happens When the “What Happens At The Abbey” Preview Happens
Finally, L.A.’s most famous gay bar has a reality show.
EXCLUSIVE: “Below Her Mouth” Opens in the U.S. Today, Here’s a Peek at the Pre-Nailing Nailing
Honestly “lesbian nailing” could be the subtitle of this film, which features very loving shots of Toronto and a little bit of clothed dialogue and just a whole lot of sex.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: To Homecomings and New Beginnings
Hi, I’m new here! This week, I’m having feels about The Handmaid’s Tale and airplane turbulence. Come say hello! *cue group hug*