I’m ready to kiss the last hours of the longest 28 days on record away with a f*cking party and a playlist full of bangers!

What’s up with you today? How’s your heart?

Escape the heat with a perfectly crafted tuna niçoise.

This summer I want to kiss girls. Girls sticky with lipgloss, girls purple with lipstain, girls sweet with cherry chapstick. I dream about kissing girls in my car (front or back seat). I dream about kissing them in the shade or in the sun. We are always a little bit sweaty and smelling like grass. We are always kissing to music.

I miss the rare fucking times of being in a room full of entirely queer people. Dancing and shouting together. Even the messy nights, the crying nights. So here’s how to turn your home into a hot gay club — with no bathroom lines! Playlist included!

To really love anything, I think, is to run the risk of it not loving you back.

“As wonderful as this time together has been, as close as we’ve gotten, we both know that once the world opens up a bit more, we’ll finally get to have a lot of our “firsts” — and that it may be bittersweet to finally have our first date six months into being a couple.”

15 things that prove queer women won 2020, the fight to include HIV-positive people in COVID-19 vaccine trials, women undoubtedly ran rap music this year, and Christine Baranski knows you love her. It’s the last link roundup of the year so I made it MAXIMUM sized, let’s do this!

“I was sitting at my little desk in my little living room, staring out my little window and thinking about this one girl’s extremely good ass.” And so it began.

Where to begin, really, with this emotional juggernaut during one of the most emotionally intense periods of our collective lives?

Kitchen gifts for beginners and people who get bored in kitchen. I mean, I love making dinner but also like damn we really gotta have dinner EVERY NIGHT?????!!!!

The WNBA is back, and they’ve got things to say! Taylor Swift’s album is… good! Gucci has a nonbinary clothing line! Black trans folks are taking care of each other! Happy Sunday!

Three Taissas have frightening encounters with eyeballs (or lack thereof); Misty wants wings; and Shauna and Jackie have a bff fight.

“These are three incredible people who have put so much of their time and heart and energy into Autostraddle.”

Black people are the future, creating some of the most beautiful and challenging art we have seen, forging a way out of the past while being entirely cognizant of it. As the editors state in the introduction, time is not linear, we are always in conversation with the past, present, and future. Black Futures as a collection is keenly aware of this.

Happy Sunday! There is SO much good news this week including a queer disco playlist, sorority news, Black art, Ecuadorian drag, political Pride in Paris and even more!!!

The lyric “someday soon, we all will be together, if the fates allow” is very Sappho if you know what I mean. I’ll take any opportunity to find the dyke root in any piece of media, so why not rank some holiday classics by how much lesbian energy they exude?