I wanted you to dominate me, Daddy, and you relished the chance. The leather straps twirled through the air as the pain grew sharper and more familiar. It stung hard. And it felt so fucking good.

Whether you’re interested in witches as a horror trope, a doorway to sex positivity, a topic of historical exploration, or rich characters and ideas in fiction or poetry, at least one of these witch books will bring something into your life!

The reason I didn’t like “Never Have I Ever” wasn’t because I didn’t feel seen. It’s because Mindy Kaling and I are clearly looking at the same world, but Kaling is expecting me to overlook all of its pain.

Plus: Your first look at The Fosters spin-off and One Day at a Time season three, Queer as Folk is getting a reboot, Chilling of Adventures of Sabrina has been renewed for three more seasons, Ellen’s new stand-up special is “an hour-long flex” and more!

In 1990, Miriam Frank and Desma Holcomb released Pride At Work, a booklet on organizing for gay and lesbian rights in the workplace. They spoke with Autostraddle about their lives, this “naughty little pamphlet,” and the future of queer labor organizing. Plus, for the first time ever, the full 100-page pamphlet is being released online – right in this post!

The Autostraddle TV Team takes on Twitter’s “Five TV Shows to Get to Know Me” meme. Yes, our relationships with television are perfectly fine and healthy THANKS.

“Womp, womp, womp. It’s the new Shane theme song. It used to be a gnarly guitar riff and now it’s a sad trombone.”

Being bisexual is lit.

Sara wakes up from her coma to find she can only see the future, and it involves a murder mystery.

Her sexuality, it seems, has been something of a personal and career liability, and part of the series will see her grappling to turn it into something empowering.

The Crisis concludes with some Sara-centric shenanigans and the return of Alex and Dreamer.

It’s jam packed in here with updates on (whew! deep breath!): Motherland: Fort Salem, Brooklyn 99, Harley Quinn, Tommy, Siren, SWAT, In the Dark, and Vagrant Queen.

Talking to survivors and caretakers of the HIV/AIDS epidemic about what we can learn from the past about our present.

“My one note is, “God, I wish Tasha was a firefighter, so I didn’t have to feel conflicted about her.”

Also, Lena Waithe gives you the eye and Samira Wiley will totally hold that for you.

Today the Supreme Court heard arguments about whether the protections of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 apply to trans, queer and gender nonconforming people, and their decision on it will impact us all.

Sara leaves Ava in charge, so she and Zari 2.0 work together to take care of the newest Encore: Marie Antoinette

According to the Victory Institute, there are 843 LGBTQ+ elected officials nationwide. But there’s so much more to us than just the numbers. Here’s your 2020 Voting Guide with every LGBTQ woman and non-binary person running for federal offices or seats in state legislatures, plus the statewide ballot measures we don’t want you to miss!

Many Black women are raised to give our apparent struggles the stiff upper lip. We’re taught to be loud, and proud, and bigger than the world sees us. And at the end of all of that effort, in my most private and intimate moments, I wish to lay my burdens down. Ain’t I a bottom?

The Legends are BACK and so are Sara and Ava, learning to navigate their post-Crisis relationship.