We put our heads together and this is what the Autostraddle Team wants for the holigays! We think you’ll find some sweet stuff for your loved ones in here, too.

It’s finally Pride month for southern states! Plus Cuba’s conversations about same-sex marriage, queer folks running for office, a queer Muslim’s journey with unlearning authority, House of Kens, and more! Happy Sunday!

After more than five years at Autostraddle, Yvonne is stepping down as senior editor. But before she goes, she wanted to take some time to reflect on her time here and to thank the incredible team and community that she’s had the pleasure of getting to know over the years.

How do you make a gif? I need a gif of Shane saying “where do you LIVE Mark??” Do you know the scene Im talking about?

Ah, yes. Cheryl Blossom is back. Riverdale is back. Let the beautiful chaos begin.

It’s been a banner year for queer women on the big screen!

We may not live in four-berry households, but we are definitely living four-berry lives.

I want to devour everything that came before us so we can continue to grow better, brighter, louder, closer. These Instagram accounts are a great place to start.

Tomorrow is a brand new year! Here are the words we’re thinking about when we think about 2019. Tell us the words you’re claiming in the new year! Tell us what you’re doing for New Year’s Eve! Tell us all your hopes and dreams! Tell us everything! We love you! Happy New Year!

It’s gonna be gayer than ever, for starters.

Topics include Dr. Death aka Christopher Duntsch, old-school video cameras, the ballroom scene, murder, Supershe island, Why the President Must Be Impeached, the death of Scout Schultz, porn pictures shows and so much more!

In 2014, after learning how to care for a person on the edge between life and death, I went on the bike ride that would, ultimately, return me to myself.

A personally curated list of complicated feelings surrounding July 4th, trans feminist vampire slayers, Meshell Ndegeocello has a new music video, and other evening news ready to take you into the weekend.

Nothing stays the same forever, and that includes our bods; here’s the Autostraddle team talking about how they’ve noticed their bodies aging and what that’s like.

25% of the 12.3k people who took our Lesbian Stereotypes survey have been in the presence of a ghost, but only 18% of all Americans have been similarly haunted. We sure are good at ghosting!

“There’s an easily accessible narrative in wilderness travel, to pretend we’re living outside of society, and to strive to create a better version of it. The temptation to argue that “x doesn’t really matter out here” rears its head in all of the usual places: race, socioeconomics, gender, age. What I’ve come to struggle with in the canoe, and years later, is which way to go. To continue my first argument, to dismantle gender, or to teach gender – to teach what it means to be a strong, dirty woman, to ask my co-instructor to teach positive masculinity.”

“SHIT WAS GAY HEATHER
SHIT HAS BEEN GAY”

That’s what friendships with queer and trans Christians have taught me: it is blessed indeed to want more, more of everything, more love and more gender and more faith and more life.

Also, wouldn’t it be nice to be stepped on by Hayley Kiyoko?

I found a different self slowly, learned to exist as if with many different goggles on at once. Always speaking from my mother’s kitchen in the Silicon Valley and, at the same time, my grandmother’s crowded living room in Punjab. In these years, I would feel the sharpness of many kinds of difference, marginalization. But when I looked down at myself for signs of why I felt so other, all I would find was the color of my hands.