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Webcomics

Foolish Child #10: The United States of Authoritarian Rule Bingo

Convince the privilege they’re oppressed? Check!

Dickens November 23, 2016 14 Comments
Christmas Sex Toys Sponsored

Holigay Gift Guide 2016: Buying Someone A Sex Toy? Start Here.

Whether you want to say “I love you,” “I have a crush on you,” or “I genuinely want you to be happy and maybe have a lot of orgasms,” we’ve got the sex toys for you.

Ryan Yates November 23, 2016 15 Comments
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: We All Need This Picture Of Stephanie Beatriz Today

In which Jenny Owen Youngs is starting a new life among the ostriches, Ruby Rose is reunited with her iconic BFF and Brittani Nichols has a dance for you.

Stef November 23, 2016 22 Comments
TV Show Recaps

Supergirl Episode 207 Recap: The F Word

Maggie wants to be friends. Alex does not want that. Alex wants so much more than that.

Valerie Anne November 22, 2016 62 Comments
Queer Fashion

Four Femme Ways To Wear Bodysuits This Fall

How to wear this season’s (probably) hottest trends — if instead of wearing any other clothes you just really want to wear bodysuits.

Ryan Yates November 22, 2016 11 Comments
Queer Fashion

Now More Than Ever: Navigating the Heteronormative Patriarchy in a Post-Trump World

What I wore on Election Day and Post-Trump.

Erin November 22, 2016 36 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

Tila Tequila What The Fuck: Former MTV Star Now Identifies as “Literally Hitler”

How the bisexual social media star at the heart of MTV’s “A Shot at Love With Tila Tequila” became a symbol of white nationalism, or why I never want to look at the Internet ever again.

Stef November 22, 2016 71 Comments
Recipes Thanksgiving

How To Cook Vegducken (Or: How to Spend Thanksgiving Heartsick and Far From Home)

“I get up off the floor, reach for a long, heavy leek and a cutting board and my favorite knife, its weight in my palm like an amulet. I feel like a stranger in my own life, but I have seven hours and eight dishes left. There is work to be done.”

Maree November 22, 2016 29 Comments
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View From The Top: Aftercare For Tops

“Perhaps trust is my biggest kink. That would explain a lot.”

Sinclair Sexsmith November 22, 2016 55 Comments
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Aggressively Adorable Gifts to Make the Long-Distance Dating Struggle a Little Easier

Ease the sting of distance with these mostly practical (but yes, some are sappy… DISTANCE IS HARD, y’all) gifts.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya November 22, 2016 9 Comments
First Person

Feelings Rookie: The Terror of Hope

Hope is light, hope is all that is good, hope is what keeps humans alive when all other circumstances say they should be dead. So why was I so afraid of this life-giving feeling?

Molly Priddy November 22, 2016 10 Comments
Geekery

Well Hot Damn, Limerence Press is Republishing Colleen Coover’s “Small Favors: The Definitive Girly Porno Collection”

Small Favors is “a classic masterpiece of lady-friendly erotica… The critically-acclaimed girly porno comic by Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Colleen Coover is back in a deluxe hardcover edition and we invite you to join the fun and meet Annie and her tiny taskmaster Nibbil in erotic adventures sure to make you blush.”

Mey November 21, 2016 5 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Joshua Jennifer Espinoza’s “There Should Be Flowers” Is A Piercing Look At The Physicality Of Trans Women’s Lives

There Should Be Flowers is a healing map, a compass that shows us back to the world after having left it for too long – that allows us to live inside the pain and love ourselves anyway.

Kai Cheng November 21, 2016 6 Comments
LGBTQ+ Businesses

Holigay Gift Guide 2016: More Super Cute Stuff Made by Women Indie Artists

Look at this awesome list of gorgeous stuff I’ve put together for you—all of it designed and/or created by at least one woman or nonbinary artist!

Raquel November 21, 2016 5 Comments
Thanksgiving

How To Be Alone on Thanksgiving

So, you’re spending Thanksgiving 2016 alone. I’m here to let you know that spending Thanksgiving alone is not only just fine, it’s also damn fun.

Ari November 21, 2016 31 Comments
Hair

You Need Help: What To Do With Your Gay Hair In Trump Country

I think you could style your hair like Dolly Parton and people on Kentucky front porches and in Kentucky truck beds would still call you a dyke in that horrible ugly tone that only bigots can growl with.

Adrian November 21, 2016 54 Comments
Gender

Miss Major Stars in “The Personal Things,” a Powerful and Inspiring Animated Short for Trans Day of Remembrance

Miss Major has always been a badass, and in this three minute long animated video, she’s no different. With all the spirit in the world in her voice, she explains how we can each use our own personal acts to make political change.

Mey November 20, 2016 5 Comments
Society + Culture

Sunday Funday is Having the Best Day Ever, Considering the Circumstances

Random acts of kindness have persisted despite the election outcome, these tiny salamanders are really something, nobody likes you Pat McCrory, Gaela had the best day ever and it’s on video and also adorable, and more good gay news!

Carmen November 20, 2016 14 Comments
Gender

On Trans Day of Remembrance We Look Back on the Worst Year Yet and Prepare for a Terrifying Future

I don’t know how to be hopeful right now, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop writing or working or fighting, and I know everyone at Autostraddle stands firmly with me.

Mey November 20, 2016 33 Comments
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Sunday Knows What Porn You Watch

Why sex is good, Tinder gets trans-inclusive, the Bad Sex Writing nominees, chronic sickness and love, and some predictions on the future of sex.

Ryan Yates November 20, 2016 12 Comments
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