We’ll Have Sex Again, I Promise
The joke was that we had to have sex before the election, because if Donald Trump won, I never wanted to be touched again. It was a joke. A joke.
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I Was Trained for the Culture Wars in Home School, Awaiting Someone Like Mike Pence as a Messiah
To take back the country for Christ, we needed to outbreed, outvote and outactivate the other side, thus saith The Lord.
A Recounting of the Morning I Spent Digging Garlic Out of My Vagina
My vagina and I get along most of the time. We know our routines, the things each of us like (orgasms and panty-free nights) and the things we don’t (periods and hard fingering meant to be pleasure inducing) but occasionally one of us fails each other.
Is Love a Lie? Our Staff Weighs In
Everything’s fine!
The 100 Most Lesbianish First Names, Ranked By Lesbianism
If your name is Alyssa, Nancy, or Kai… I have news for you. That news is that you are gay.
72 Lesbian-Owned Businesses and Queer Shops To Support This Holiday Season!
There’s no day like today to put money back into the community. We’ve got bowties, babelands, books, pet-care, coffee, toys, socks, an abundance of menswear-for-womens-bodies and so many more awesome things sold by lesbian, bisexuals and queers!
Now More Than Ever: Navigating the Heteronormative Patriarchy in a Post-Trump World
What I wore on Election Day and Post-Trump.
Meet The 100 Most Popular Lesbian and Bisexual YouTubers
With millions of subscribers between them, lesbian, bisexual and otherwise queer-identified people are taking over online video content, one like at a time!
Mara Wilson Knows Your First Crush Was Miss Honey: The Autostraddle Interview
“Being Queer is not about who you’re with, it’s about who you are.”
My Virtual Brunch With Dolly Parton
“Dear Editor: You are cordially invited to have brunch with country music icon Dolly Parton this Sunday, August 7th.”
Soggy Bottoms: Baking a Prinsesstårta Can’t Be That Hard, Right? (It Is)
“I honestly just Gryffindored my way through a lot of this process, using my supreme confidence in my skills as my guide.”
What We Mean When We Say “Femme”: A Roundtable
We now live in a world where it is totally possible to claim the same word as someone else and completely disagree on what the word means.
Every Major “Law & Order” Character Ranked In Order Of Lesbianism
Look.
105 Trans Women On American TV: A History and Analysis
Autostraddle walks you through the entire history of trans female characters on American television from 1965-2015.
What I Wore: Navigating the Heteronormative Patriarchy, Pt. 2
To a casual viewer, this might seem like a down home, girl next door outfit. Oh, just some casual slip-ons, a jersey top, cut-off jean shorts and a baseball hat. Hey y’all! But then it’s like, oop, nope, that’s just a bra.
All 182 Dead Lesbian and Bisexual Characters On TV, And How They Died
So many women who’ve suffered death by television and just-so-happened to also like other women.
Labels: For Jelly Jars, For Lesbian and Bisexual People, Or For Both?
ELLE Magazine asks if we’re post-LGBT because Kristen Stewart and kids these days just aren’t labeling themselves like they used to and so in this post what happens is that we all talk about the labels we use for ourselves and then y’all can talk about that or whatever you want, really.
What I Wore: Navigating the Heternormative Patriarchy (Part One)
“When I want to go for a drink at a bar where I know the crowd will be overwhelmingly straight, I take great strides to ensure a look that says I’m both sexually unavailable and I might attempt to convert you to a new religion.”
Oscars So Very Incredibly Racist: Investigating 88 Years Of Academy Awards For Acting
We’ve got data and timelines and infographics and conversation on topics including: white actors getting Oscars for playing people of color, white savior narratives, roles that garner nominations for Black actors, the shocking lack of nominations for Asian, Latinx and Native American actors and so much more.
Lesbian Bars I Definitely Made Up But Probably Exist
“Yearn is honestly a little too much. Yearn is the bar equivalent of Marina’s voice on Jenny’s voicemail that one time when she’s like, “Jenny. I was just… thinking about you.”