“In my twenties as I was coming into my queerness, it felt like there were very heteronormative ways to be queer.”

“So many people struggle with getting out of their head and into their body during sex.”

“I felt connected to her on a deep level — she is the only girl I’ve written an entire zine about — but wasn’t ready to really engage with it.”

Everyone has some things that make them hard to live with — like, literally, like in the same apartment as them. Here are ours.

The queerness of Pacino’s filmography is a reminder. While the media and your worst uncle claim the newness of queer and trans people, the truth is we have always been here. This cinema belongs to us as much as it does any straight film bro.

Advice for a person who really wants to get over being grossed out by periods, plus advice about friendship from three different askers.

A troublesome group chat, a moldy shower, being autistic at work, moving cities, and more!

People love other people’s mess; it gives us the opportunity to not dwell on the dysfunction in our own lives. 

When baby trans girls watched Kylie come out, they knew they weren’t alone. When baby trans girls watch Jasmine come out, they know she is not alone. Within that small difference is a world of possibility.

Drew and Kayla discuss why they love the sequels, the first times they watched these movies, and the fact that Reloaded is the horniest Matrix installment.

Carrie gets a new hip, Charlotte’s kid gets a new name, and Miranda gets some gay sex.

Why do we talk about care as a scarcity model? How do you live with ~the void~? How do we adjust to changing language for identity and in movements? Is America going to end in 2024? All this and more!

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!

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?

“Take My Wife” Season 2 is now available on iTunes and surprise, we loved it!

I can’t say any of us were thrilled to sign up, but we knew what we had to do: we had to sign up for a dating app and prepare to meet a lot of ladies… for science.

Going to 7 queer bars in one day? What could possibly go wrong!

If you want to live in a reality show, go ahead and sow chaos, but if you’d rather have a romcom, you have to let go.

The Autostraddle team offers advice on a relationship crisis, dealing with the fact that your ex has moved on quickly, a friend who is less interested in rekindling the friendship than you are, commitment and marriage and more!

Lately I’ve been joking that I am everyone’s lesbian aunt (or grandfather, depending on whether or not I am offering encouragement or once again scolding half of our team for not having flashlights in their apartments!). And so I thought, what if I just embraced that vibe and put it to work.