The insurrection in DC on January and making sense of this chapter of the story of power in the US.

“Honestly, my most creative accomplishment this year was recreating the entire movie ‘Labyrinth’ from start to finish on an Animal Crossing island!”

Yeah, I know every week is special, but come on!

When I was a teenager, my parents prepped for the y2k crisis. Now I’m trying to understand what queer preparedness looks like in an uncertain time.

Fun and frustrating, derivative and surprising, Netflix’s new ballet show Tiny Pretty Things is undone by its paradoxes.

Valerie and Meg look back at Critical Role’s gayest moments in 2020 because queer D&D is their favored terrain.

Remember Tila Tequila?

Even prior to COVID-19, harm reduction has been a strategy of leftist organizing and key to an abolitionist future. Building a politics which acknowledges how layers of marginalization impact your health outcomes, and still goes “beyond just surviving to actually enjoying our lives and accounting for those health disparities,” is the goal.

I believe we are in living in a truly incredible time for queer and feminist books. For proof, I offer you this majestic — if I do say so myself — list of queer and feminist books hitting shelves this winter.

For me, what makes the show so unique are the moments Valeria spends with Cristina and Paca and all the other trans women around them. It’s watching this cross-generational support among trans women that’s so important for us but so rarely portrayed on screen.

Join Valerie, Drew, and Carmen as they geek out about Ryan Murphy’s Netflix adaptation of The Prom.

Sex is weird, and this movie leans into that without pretending to have all the answers.

I don’t think it matters much whether Avatar: The Last Airbender is “respectful” of Asian culture. I think the show is racist, and also I like it. I’m interested in what we do with the sense of agency it gives us, how it allows us to critique the structures that exist and envision our own worlds.

I love Christmas. I love having a guardian gayngel. And even when the movie is not great, I love a queer Afro-Latina in New York getting her very own Gay Christmas Love Story.

The transcendence of queer T4T sex, a thought experiment about public kink, the peak dating question of our time and more.

Supposedly, folks who go together flow together. But does the science of period syncing hold up?

Riese: One boob out. I love the one boob out.
Carly: One boob out is incredible.

From nursing (THANK YOU!) to forestry to operating a particle accelerator, our A+ members reported working over 500 different jobs in the 2020 Autostraddle Reader Survey.

I follow my ex girlfriend’s rabbit on Instagram, but not her or her new girlfriend. Felt I should share.

Horror has always been my favorite genre. I’m a very anxious person and something about having that anxiety externalized in a way that’s fun or cathartic has always really appealed to me. I like roller coasters too. How often is our fear so wonderfully contained?