Mok fills each panel of her comics with so much emotion and power that reading them is a full body experience, taking you to a place either you’ve never been before or a place that’s all too familiar.
From the beginning, Supergirl has been fundamentally about three things: Women, love, and hope — and knowing how much strength is in each of those three things. Alex’s story is no different. Our story is no different.
“I knew she wanted it, I trusted her to know she could take what she asked for, and I wanted to give her what she wanted. But I couldn’t do it.”
My problem with grief is its general shape. Grief is somehow both slippery and sharp, rolling over you with sadness then sneakily attacking your soft underbelly with its claws.
Moving in with your girlfriend after just one year (even when you have an ominous feeling about it maybe), dating someone significantly shorter than you, and the politics behind not commenting on our political posts but definitely commenting on our cookie posts. It’s a podcast!
Let’s be with each other on this most harrowing of days to follow updates as they come in and support each other as we drag ourselves across the finish line of this election cycle.
Cozy boozy cider for you and your date person or your best friend or your mom or whoever IT’S PROPER FALL COCKTAIL TIME!
Comedians DeAnne Smith, Jess Salomon and Eman El-Husseini star in their new stand up show “Girl on Girl on Girl” happening in NYC on November 9th. And they’re giving away tickets to see it!
They don’t drink their wine.
On her new album HERE, Alicia Keys first in three years, she has a lot of songs, but none as specifically suited to our interests here at Autostraddle than “Where Do We Begin Now,” a confusing song about first time sapphic attraction.
“I have a very precocious eight year old daughter who began speaking at nine months and decided that she would marry a woman before she turned two. She learned the term lesbian from the show Supergirl, and now matter of factly proclaims herself a lesbian to anyone.”
I realized something inside of me had forever changed the first time I was smoking with the windows down and the music loud in my car and thought to myself “Huh, I could imagine myself doing SoulCycle to this song.”
A reporter asked Hillary how many calories are in this and she booed him and kept eating. Damn right.
What makes an orgasm an orgasm, why crushes are fun, why queer porn is into safer sex (but you should still vote no on 60) and more.
Sally Ride rides again, the Cubs won the World Series and here are some literal bear cubs, good gay and trans news from around the world, Hillary’s interview with The Washington Blade, and more!
Luisa and Rose take 153 trips around the Great Barrier Reef, Arizona’s got a new love interest, Maggie’s got a real girlfriend, Rosewood keeps the slow reconciliation burn going, and more queer TV from the week!
Unlike books, podcasts block out other-people noise.
“We were up all night reading articles about the election.”
An Atlanta man who killed Catherine Montoya was was found guilty of murder, rape, aggravated assault and aggravated sodomy; gentrification and the closing of gay bars; a group within the FBI is pro-Trump and attempting to influence the election; a Muslim trans woman in Russia was murdered and more news.
2016 has seen the expansion of black storytelling on major TV networks with shows like Insecure and Atlanta, but Brown Girls’ DIY attitude and background opens up the possibilities of experiences that can be shared.