Autostraddle March Madness 2023: Trope-y Wives – Forbidden Fruit
It’s time to vote, you gays!
It’s time to vote, you gays!
In the season finale, we look back to Ellie and Joel’s past while fighting for the future.
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, actors of color who actually did get nominated or win Oscars for Acting and so much more. Just updated for 2023.
Ring-a-ding-ding, sweetheart, Della Street is back and better than ever.
When you’re a queer parent writing for a largely hetero audience, it feels like you’re pleading your case to exist.
The queerness found in a lot of these Bubble Trouble essays isn’t necessarily surface-level fizz but something deeper in the gut.
Why do melons have such extravagant weddings?
“Everything Everywhere All At Once” is the first film with an explicitly gay female main character to win “Best Picture.”
With author and Autostraddle writer, Meg Jones Wall!
For every good date, there are at least three bad dates. I made that ratio up, but it feels right.
I also solve the urgent mystery of what happened to Lip Smacker Dr. Pepper.
Scream VI is as queer as you were hoping it would be! Jump scares and gay smooching, let’s go!
“Does the Academy just love war? They want to GET INTO THE TRENCHES. Well not me. I prefer not to trench. Unless it is Lydia Tár’s trench coat.”
Oh standup comedy. A thing so many people do and so few people do well. Including 15 seasons worth of Drag Race queens.
Enter this strange and fizzy queer retelling of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory — if you dare.
Why was the pig covered in ink?
“and my agent was like what the f*ck?”
Plus updates on Grey’s Anatomy, Truth Be Told, A Million Little Things, How I Met Your Father, The Watchful Eye, and Fantasy Island.
Just remember to get your picks in ASAP. The bracket challenge will close on Monday, March 13, just before voting in the first region begins.
Bella Ramsey stars in yet another heartbreaking lesbian love story, a snapshot of what it may have been like to be queer and in love in a time of witch trials.