You Need Help: Was Breaking Up A Mistake?
In which we try to determine whether a questioner’s recent breakup was the right move, or whether they should try to rectify it.
VIDEO: Kristin Russo’s New Web Series “First Person” Tells LGBT Stories
The web series, which premiered Thursday, will give the queer community space to tell its own stories about gender, sexuality and more.
Playlist: Witch Vibes
Live fast, die young. Bad Witches do it well.
Being Lesbian While Black & How Five African Women Saved My Life
There’s just something about feeling inauthentic, impossible and insignificant that really makes life a burden, and that’s where I was for years. I was sick of living and wavered between a fear of and desire for death. I’m better these years; so far so good. I’m still here, I’m Rwandese, I’m queer and these are my mentors.
Autostraddle Grown-Ups Mini-Survey: If You’re 29 Or Older, You’ve Gotta Take This Survey For Us
If you’re 29 or older and you’ve got 15 minutes then you’ve got time to get in here and take this survey!
The Fosters Episode 217 Recap: Hard Knock Life
Stef and Lena agree to let Callie go, and Rosie’s got a brand new house.
Fool’s Journey: Tell Your Story with the Queer Tarot Project
We all have stories to tell. Stories about coming out. Stories about first loves. Stories about discrimination, liberation, escape, self-acceptance, pride, shame, faith, joy, regret, being lost, being found and so much more. The Queer Tarot Project is a place to share these stories through the medium of tarot.
Where Oh Where Are the Single Black Lesbians?
Honestly, while I’m open to diversity in the women that I date, I have found that usually out of 50 quick matches on OKC I might get three black lesbians.
Cote v. Walmart: First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage, Then Comes Workplace Discrimination
After racking up hundreds of thousands in debt, three rounds of hospitalization, countless chemo sessions, and many nights’ lost sleep, Jackie and Dee are fighting for their rights (and yours).
Here’s What You Need to Know Before DIY Insemination
Did you guys know that in many states, if a physician doesn’t conduct the insemination, then the parental rights of the sperm donor might not be terminated?
Another Heartbreak: Somali-Canadian Trans Woman Sumaya Dalmar Found Dead in Toronto This Weekend
In what has already been a year of horrifying violence and tragedy for trans women of color, a young Somali-Canadian trans woman was lost this weekend in Toronto. Sumaya Dalmar, known also as Sumaya Ysl, was found dead on Sunday morning at the age of 26.
Glee Episode 608 Recap: Here Come The Brides
Brittany and Santana say “I do.” (And Kurt and Blaine do too.)
26 Bits Of Solid Sex Advice You Gave Us On Autostraddle’s Lesbosexy Sex Survey
20. WASH YOUR HANDS IF YOU ATE BUFFALO WINGS BEFORE GETTING LAID, OMG.
Drawn to Comics: Lumberjanes Keeps Getting Cuter and Dang Cuter
“Okay, first things first, this is the most freaking adorable cover to a comic book I have ever seen in my life. And the inside of the comic is just as cute!”
Wedding Feelings I’m Powering Through: 40 Day Countdown
I’m getting married in 40 days! Here are some unfiltered feelings and things about that, because what else was I supposed to do?
You Need Help: Your Girlfriend Wants to Date Other People and It’s Breaking Your Heart
Your girlfriend wants an open relationship and you agreed to it, but now you feel terrible all the time. What to do?
A-Camp Spring 2015: We’ve Got A Campership WITH TRAVEL For You!
An amazing anonymous donor is giving away a campership WITH TRAVEL to a camper in need, including overseas campers! Get in here and make your dream come true!
Also.Also.Also: Do You Want Your Kid to Be Gay, Too? And Other Stories We Missed
Doulas aren’t just for rich white folks, Ruth Bader Ginsburg isn’t going anywhere, where are all the women hermits, even more on the Google View-Master because I’m obsessed, plus other cool neat rad stories you’ll appreciate on some level!
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue Eight, February 2015
“I’m just imagining Alex on a rock wall and Rachel snuggling a cat or something.”
35 Recipes to Help You Get Lucky at the Potluck
Make your next potluck contribution the belle (bowl?) of the ball.