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The queer couple in the Ted TV show, Blaire and Sarah
TV Reviews

The “Ted” TV Show Has Classic Crass Humor Plus a Queer Cousin

The offensive humor of the Ted franchise is called out by a queer character in the new TV series.

Valerie Anne January 15, 2024 13 Comments
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Gender

Top 10 Things I’m Looking Forward to After Top Surgery

8. Being slutty in tank tops and vests

Motti January 15, 2024 6 Comments
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Health

How To Engage With New Year’s Resolutions More Thoughtfully

I have to take a page from my time recovering from an eating disorder. The habits and encouragement found in supportive eating disorder recovery look a lot like the things we want to emulate in daily life.

Summer Tao January 15, 2024 2 Comments
Nikki Giovanni's face in close up, she appears to be thinking, collaged in front of old, orange-tinted, photos from her past.
Movie Reviews

“Going to Mars” Is the Queer Black Women’s Triumph That Nikki Giovanni Deserves

Nikki Giovanni so loves Black women that she never waivers that our strength can only be matched by the stars themselves.

Carmen Phillips January 15, 2024 16 Comments
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword Only Makes Houses Out of Practical Materials

I should never have given my real email address to Rolex.

Kate Hawkins January 15, 2024 5 Comments
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TV Reviews

“True Detective: Night Country” Is a Mediocre Network Procedural Masquerading As Prestige TV

It’s not just that these narratives are harmful. It’s that they’re boring.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 14, 2024 70 Comments
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Food and Drink Quizzes

Quiz: What Sandwich Should You Make Right Now?

Do you experience sandwich indecision? Generalized lunch indecision? Take this quiz!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 14, 2024 6 Comments
Drag Race 1602 recap: The second group of queens all line up and pose
TV Show Recaps

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Episode 1602 Recap: B Team

Her sign should’ve read: “If you love drag on TV, don’t let your conservative families and shitty husbands vote against our rights.”

Drew Burnett Gregory January 13, 2024 1 Comment
the cast of The Traitors season 2
TV Show Recaps

The Traitors Is a Dramatic Game of Social Manipulation, What Does That Teach Us?

“The Traitors” demonstrates how groups of people define otherhood, rightly or wrongly, based in reality, assumption, fantasy, or some mix of all three.

Anya Richkind January 13, 2024 19 Comments
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AF+ Puzzles

AF+ Crossword Supports Queer Indie Bookstores

I’m reading a book about anti-gravity.

Emet Ozar January 13, 2024 1 Comment
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TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: Team Work Really Doesn’t Make the Dream Work as Work Woes Sour “Good Trouble”

Both Malika and Alice’s storylines this week left me feeling like “Good Trouble” had done a disservice to its characters and the story they’ve told for the past five seasons.

Natalie January 12, 2024
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First Person

The Big And

If time is blurry, and I think it is, then so is everything else.

Anya Richkind January 12, 2024 10 Comments
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AF+

Into the A+ Advice Inbox #96: So You Hate College

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the team January 12, 2024 4 Comments
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TV Feature

Presenting the Winners of the 6th Annual Autostraddle TV Awards!

A League of Their Own, Sort Of, The Last of Us, and more! Here are the winners of the 6th annual Autostraddle TV Awards.

The TV Team January 12, 2024 6 Comments
Mean Girls Janis queer: Auli'i Cravalho as Janis from the Mean Girls movie
Movie Reviews

“Mean Girls” (2024) Made Us Feel Too Gay To Function

With the power vocals of Auli’i Cravalho and Reneé Rapp and a canonically queer Janis, Mean Girls is back and gayer than ever.

Valerie Anne and Nic
January 12, 2024 7 Comments
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword Was a Freshperson Once

Did you hear I won the award for best knock knock joke?

Kate Hawkins January 12, 2024 1 Comment
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TV Show Recaps

Maybe All Real Housewives Are Bisexual

Kyle Richards says she’s open to dating a woman.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 11, 2024 1 Comment
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Kristen Stewart Says “Twilight Was Such a Gay Movie,” Talks Queer Sex Scenes, Does a Kristen Stewart Impression

In a Variety Magazine cover story, Kristen Stewart is telling us everything: why she came out on Saturday Night Live, gay sex scenes in Love Lies Bleeding, a new take on Panic Room, the queer subtext in Twilight and so much more!

Riese January 11, 2024 5 Comments
A trans masculine person showing their post-surgery scars.
Health

Healing After Top Surgery: Expectation vs. Reality

What’s it like to walk down the stairs with nothing bouncing? What’s it like to feel a seatbelt flat against me? What’s it like when my girlfriend lays her head on my chest, REALLY on my chest, closer to my heart than ever?

Max Gross January 11, 2024 12 Comments
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Book Lists

Consider This: Listening to an Audiobook While Doing a Jigsaw Puzzle

I have unlocked a new level of intellectual heaven: listening to an audiobook while doing a jigsaw puzzle.

Riese January 11, 2024 6 Comments
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