Alison Bechdel talks fame, privilege, and returning to old characters for her new work of autofiction.

Looking for children’s books with queer moms, binding as a cis woman, communications issues in relationships, and more!

“As a person of Midwestern experience, I can say that a Lake House is supposed to be on a lake.”

First of all: Clean your sex toys! Also: homophobia at your day job, supporting your friend when they leave an abusive relationship, and how to start dating when… you’ve absolutely never dated before.

Let’s make some noise for the bottoms in the house! (It’s me, the bottom in the house.)

Riese: I would text Riley and be like “you up?”
Carly: Are you still at the gay bar…? Because?
Riese: I would come back incensed with rage and ready to make a mistake.
Carly: Ready to ruin my relationship.
Riese: Yes. I would be full of the spirit of ruin and ready to share it.
Carly: Which is not Christmas spirit, but it is kind of related.

Buffy is a queer rite of passage. Everybody’s got a Buffy story. These are some of ours.

“I can’t focus enough to read the cool indigneous women article but I want to read it but I cam’t I had too much drug candy”

We’ve got everything: diva cups, girls with feelings and guitars, hand massages, busted knees, phantom doors, QTPOC speakeasy takeovers, Gabby in a canoe, Jasika Nicole in a smoke machine, fresh tears cried for Maddie, a bloody nose, butt sex, lip-syncing and gosh, so much more.

Last week, we partnered with Rainbow Health to host a virtual workshop on COVID-19 and queer sexual health. Here’s a complete transcript of what went down!

It all started when Krisily met a girl at a dog park who turned out to be an actress with a job on a television show where she played a character named “Shane.”

From frustrating job searches, to toxic leadership, from vaccine mandates to extreme nonprofit overwork, from coming out to a coworker to finding ways to actually enjoying downtime — the Autostraddle team addresses your questions about getting by in the workplace, being queer in your career, and making it through the day while surviving capitalism.

In our third of four recamps, Elicia Sanchez laughs so hard she almost pees in her pants except she wasn’t wearing pants, she was wearing tights.

This is not a how-to guide; there’s no right way to navigate these situations. Let’s share instances of microaggressions and some ways to deal in the hopes we’ll all be able to make it out alive, looking sexy and loving our hardest.

Amid increased violence against LGBTQ+ communities, queer fight clubs have emerged as an emphatic response.

Definitely by the end of the night, if no one says, “You shouldn’t be single anymore. This isn’t working for the rest of us,” then I didn’t break up properly.

When it comes to boundaries, our strengths are our weaknesses and our weaknesses are our strengths. (Also let us talk about Raven Symoné’s chaotic gay TikTok, shall we?)

John: Could you imagine you and Dylan just got done cunnaling-ing together, you’re in bed, the California sun is basking on you. And then you turn to Dylan and you’re like, “We have to get up so we can go to Max’s Willy Wonka baby shower.” That’s the thing you interrupt with.

“I am an unserious person. And I bring that unseriousness to my work. So I like to think I’m finally figuring out my voice as a filmmaker and it’s gay stupidity. We need more of that.”

This week we’ve brought on someone in a gaymous power couple: Grace Lavery! But being in a public relationship isn’t just the joys of ambitious4ambitious. There’s also the matter of boundaries and privacy.