“It’s the Wicked Witch to queer kinkiness pipeline.”

We’re looking to bring some more writers on our team and listen — maybe perhaps you are one of them?

Here are updates to our current financial situation. Still, the essentials of everything we’ve been saying for years are true. Fundraising is a part of our business model!

If you find sex & dating content on our website that speaks to you, then I’ll know I’ve done my job.

“Just watched this, and my dog was SHOCKED when they snogged.”

“Beware. That is the pit of doom. You don’t want to go in there.”

“Sharing my stories with that audience never felt right — I always felt like I was explaining, never that I was just telling my truth.”

“My inner voice keeps going ‘Shane Shane Shane, Carmen Carmen Carmen’ exactly like the weird soundtrack from Season 3.”

“I remember telling my girlfriend at the time, ‘I’m going to write for them some day,’ to which she replied, ‘You can try but it’s pretty competitive. I don’t think you’ll ever be good enough to write for them.'”

“I still wear my actual red Straddle This boxers!!”

“To come into myself, to really integrate my queerness as an essential part of myself, I needed to start telling the stories I had been holding in for so long.”

“I came for the lights and left wanting to know more about your Disney villain mom!”

“And here we thought the spruce syrup was just a tasty treat!”

“MAKE TRANS ICON BIRDO A MAIN PLAYABLE CHARACTER IN MARIO CART, YOU COWARDS!”

“Some people grumble about how much “easier” younger generations have it.”

This year for Trans Awareness Week, I wanted us to focus on recent trans history. Autostraddle itself is part of that history.

Heather Hogan noticed that I had taken up permanent residence in the comments of “Boobs on Your Tube” every Friday, basically writing recaps of my own (I felt lost, Autostraddle was my port in the storm). Heather asked if I had ever considered writing about television as a career. She said, “We can pay you. Not as much as we’d like to, but we’ll find the money. Is that something you’d be into?”

I wrote back, “That is something that I would VERY MUCH be into! In fact, I hope it’s not too unprofessional to say that I would love it with all of my heart.”

“The dapper Black girl that danced and sang about the future had led me to a new corner of the universe and I was smitten.”

“Now I’m very excited for another Autostraddle article in another 11 years adding even more editorial inserts to Kayla’s current editorial inserts.”

“Best moment is being in a room full of gays singing along to the Golden Girls theme song!”