five cans of retro Britney Spears Diet Coke against a purple and gray fuzzy background

First Person

On 2018’s Britney Spears Diet Pepsi Cans and the Most Intense Gaslighting of My Career

I used to love grocery shopping after my divorce. I would buy things that only I liked.

Van holds Taissa in the Yellowjackets season 2 trailer

TV News & Trailers

Yellowjackets Season 2 Trailer Teases Taissa/Van Reunion

I’M SCREAMING (and so are characters in the trailer, literally).

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Relationships

Dykes on Dates: Tips for Topping (Homemade Pizza)

You don’t have to be a seasoned home chef to make pizza date night a reality! I’ve got tips for all skill levels and price points.

three cans of coca-cola classic and three cans of diet coke

First Person

Coca-Cola Used To Be Fifty Cents and We Used To Be Close

(Stop writing about the Coke when what you’re really trying to write about is the end of a friendship and then another and then another.)

Love At First Set by Jennifer Dugan features cartoon women at a gym, one is blonde with her hair up wearing a white tank next to a bench press, and one is a brunette and wearing a dress looking shy

Literature

Rainbow Reading: Lifting Queers, Listen Up! New Sapphic Romance Set in a Gym Is Coming

Plus, an upcoming YA book about a Mexican American nonbinary teen promises love in a taqueria.

Puzzles

Word Search: Say Hello to Your Friends

Grab your kid kit and your ding-dongs!

Three photographs of Jasmin Savoy Brown, a Black woman with cornrows and a silver dress and red handbag, kissing their partner messily so that her red lipstick smears. Her partner, Anouk, is a butch woman with hair in a bun and a long grey coat.

Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Jasmin Savoy Brown Hard Launches Her New Partner on Instagram

It really raises the question, what are the best lipsticks for leaving marks on your gal pal?

The eight couples featured in this round of voting, all kissing: Miranda and Che, And Just Like That; Jackie and Leslie, Hightown; Candace and Lilly, Astrid & Lilly Save the World; April and Sterling, Teenage Bounty Hunters; Quinn and Isabela, Harlem; Fabiola and Eve, Never Have I Ever; Jamie and Dani, The Haunting of Bly Manor; Sabi and Olympia, Sort Of

AF+

A+ Members: Pick the Winner of the First Four Autostraddle March Madness Match-Ups

Instead of opening up these First Four match-ups to the whole wide web, as we usually do, we’re going to start here… with the members who power this community year-round.

Cheez-It White Cheddar, House Wine canned wine in a rainbow can, three loose potato chips, a bag of Takis, a bag of Kettle Cooked potato chips, a gold can of Underwood canned sparkling wine, and a can of nonalcoholic sparkling wine

Food and Drink

Uncommon Pairings: Canned Sparkling Wines and the Chips That Go With Them

Canned wines have solved the problem of me not wanting to commit to an entire bottle of something.

Gabrielle Union and Dwayne Wade with their daughter, Zaya, all in black leather and sunglasses at Paris Fashion Week.

Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Zaya Wade Makes Her Runway Debut at Paris Fashion Week

Buffy’s new queer Slayer, what The Last of Us does better than anyone else, the soft masculinity of Top Gun, and more!

Jessica Betts holds a microphone and looks at Niecy Nash, who is dancing up on her

Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Niecy Nash and Jessica Betts Are the Bedrock of My Ideal Couple Vision Board

Also, Hannah Einbinder as Amelia Earhart is now officially a part of my deeply unofficial “Important IG moments in queer history.”

organic yerba mate in Enlighten Mint flavor with chips around them and a jazz cup design in the background

First Person Food and Drink

Grind Culture Made Fizzy Energy Drinks My Toxic Writing Partner

This is not a cautionary tale or a poignant anecdote about finding myself amid waves of imposter syndrome

Puzzles

Mini Crossword Is Making Cupcakes

Hey, not all math puns are bad!

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Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Gay Campground in Florida Presents the Question Is It Time We All Finally Become Land Dykes

Queer separatism never looked so good. Also: Honoring disability activist Judy Heumann.

TV Reviews

Slasher-Comedy Cruise Ship Series “Wreck” Has a Wicked Twist and a Standout Queer Friendship

The central friendship on the series is between a gay guy and a lesbian, which I wish we saw more of on television!

an overhead shot of a nearly empty cup of soda, surrounded by gummy sodas and bottle caps

First Person

Seltzer Tastes Like Punishment

There are so many good songs about drinking but none about seltzer, have you noticed that?

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Friendship

You Need Help: Should I Try Again To Turn a Friendship Into Romance?

You have to evaluate if you can experience the friendship not as a consolation prize or a waystation for your ultimate destiny of romantic partnership with them but as a gift that is exactly what you want.

The following beers: Mickey's, Coors Light, Natural Ice, Miller Genuine Draft, and Bud Light Lime

First Person Food and Drink

Beers I Drank From Ages 14 to 20 That Made Me the ‘Man’ I Am Today

Every punk party — whether it was in Ft. Lauderdale or Lake Worth or North Miami — had the exact same drink options. Either you were drinking Mickey’s or you were doing shots of Jack Daniels.