I figuratively locked Grace Ellis and Shannon Watters in a dark room and made them talk a little bit about their creative process in celebration of today’s AMAZING launch. Also: preview art!

Featuring Taylor and Cee dressed up like boy scouts! Yes, really.

If you’ve been here for 10 seconds, you’ve seen user paper0flowers comment on something. Now it’s time to meet the girl behind the username!

My best friend died one year ago today.

Jess chats with the couple about camp, the reality TV experience, the upcoming election, finding an anonymous sperm donor, Smash, Oprah, their Real L Word comrades and — in an Autostraddle exclusive — the sex of their baby, due in October!

NPR Morning Edition: Major New York LGBTQ Film Festival, Newfest, Goes Virtual Autostraddle film writer Drew Gregory appeared on Morning Edition to discuss Newfest’s online festival. Study Hall: Corporate Folly and the Collapse of Queer Media GayTimes+ followers in the footsteps of two queer, feminist publications, Autostraddle and Bitch Media, that have built durable brands […]

New Samantha Irby! New Leah Johnson! Get excited for these upcoming LGBTQ+ and feminist book releases, and support queer authors this spring.

111. I wrote hundreds of love letters to Janet Jackson. I never sent them, but was convinced that we would end up married some day.

“always happy for the opportunity to turn our community’s collective missteps into content”

Take a gay road trip to all 50 states right on your couch with queer fiction, memoirs and graphic novels set all across the United States.

Tips and tricks to making your backcountry meals as delicious and decadent as can be, without compromising your pack weight (too much).

“wait there are nipples on shutterstock??”

“ok who sent me an autostraddle email address request for kristen stewart”

NOT TWEE NORDIC LESBIANS

“omg wtf there are so many good looking butches in that one city in maine
is there a colony?”

“i’m stepping down from autostraddle
bye
you’ll miss calling me out when i give my body to the sea so”

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It’s the second issue of the best little behind-the-scenes newsletter EVER.

While Sarah seems extremely comfortable roughing it up and peeing in the woods, Felix equates camping with being homeless in the country. Obviously he’s never been to A-Camp.

Monique talks about being Mexican and queer in Arizona, her favorite artists, and her adorable dog Elliot (who is an extremely well-behaved road trip travel companion.)