Celebrate Black Music Month and Pride Month with these Black queer artists who deserve all the attention.

I don’t know if I’m about to get murdered or married or literally never hear from her again. And I don’t really care??

Happy (belated) birthday Breonna Taylor, let’s celebrate you! Leave your birthday wishes in the comments, share your favorite videos of Black joy, drop a playlist, donate her family’s GoFundMe. Let’s show her, and Black girls everywhere just how much we love them.

I hope Yellowjackets keeps teasing us, keeps planting “character Easter eggs” rather than plot ones, keeps revealing things that ultimately are easy to predict but difficult to swallow.

“These queer artists honor the genre’s roots while breathing new identities and stories into it.”

“I never expected to hear anyone describe the ‘Thong Song’ as healing! I’m delighted!”

There are so many nonbinary actors popping up on our screens and stages. Here’s just 25 of the many you definitely need to know.

“Musicals? Too weird. My favorite indie band? Too pretentious. Tegan and Sara? Too gay. C’mon, Jennifer, get it together!”

That Christmas with queer family reminded me that multiple possibilities exist even in the darkest of places.

Literally what do you mean that it’s December already?

As I listen through Amelia Jackie’s queer folk album, again and again, I feel a fullness that is not unlike eating your favorite comfort food.

Janelle Monáe and Tessa Thompson are baiting us for Democracy this Election Day… and I’m not mad at it? Also: Lots of good, thoughtful election reads that (mostly) won’t piss you off and concrete, actionable ways to distract yourself right now if you need it.

Every other week, I’ll run my metal detector over the literary internet, dig up whatever beeps, and present to you my findings.

It hooked me from the opening staging — that chugging rock guitar, the Pure Moods candelabra in the background, the of-a-specific-time aesthetics and choreography (“The Temple” includes inflatable sex dolls being tossed through the air like beach balls) that makes the whole thing feel like a pile of “Keep Austin Weird” t-shirts gained sentience.

We’ve got advice on breakups and exes, playlists to see you through, unhinged behavior we highly recommend and so much more from the annals of Autostraddle’s achy breaky hearts.