Beauty Products to Buy From Black People Year Round — Not Just During Black History Month
If you’re looking for full coverage glam or a light natural look, Black-owned beauty has got you covered.
“Physical: 100” Proves There’s No One Way To Be an Athlete
Physical: 100 also disrupts the American idea of competition and what it means to be a good competitor.
You Need Help: How Can I Be My Authentic Self While Navigating Bi-Erasure and Biphobia?
You can’t control other people’s reactions to your coming out. But you can create for yourself a network of people who unequivocally support your bisexuality/queerness and who understand the specific joys and challenges we face.
“Your Driver Is Waiting” Review: I’m Obsessed With the Swole Bisexual Narrator of This Rip-Roaring Novel
Some readers may be tempted to label Your Driver Is Waiting as satire, but that’s not my reading at all.
Word Search: Stardew Valley
Will you find the Golden Walnut?
Right Now – A+ Read a Fucking Book Club: I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
Join us for a Q&A with author M. Crane! Right now! See you there?
“The Last of Us” Episode 107 Recap: Let’s Go To The Mall
In a very special flashback episode, we learn about Ellie’s best friend and gay crush, Riley, and the night they spent in an abandoned mall.
Alison Brie Is Bisexual, Has Been Waiting for the Right Tweet To Tell You
Alison Brie is bisexual; she said it right out loud in a BuzzFeed video with her husband, and that is that! Huzzah!
Pop Culture Fix: Lisa Ann Walter Brought Parent Trap Co-Star Elaine Hendrix As Her Date to the SAG Awards
All the gay happenings from the SAG and NAACP Awards, famous sports gays getting married and having babies, the New Black Film Canon, and more!
17 Things That Glow To Add a Little Light and Kitsch to Your Workspace or Bedside
You know what we could all use as we march into March? Light. Literally.
Behind the Scenes: The Autostraddle Black Elders Interview Project
“You and I are family.”
Queer Naija Lit: 2005’s “Walking With Shadows” Is a Meditation on Shame, Rupture, and Repair
As a child, I wasn’t different because I was gay (that came with teenagehood), I was different because I was autistic.
“I Don’t Want To Be Forgotten”
“So I just accepted the fact that I truly was gay. I had to be gay. That was my acceptance of myself. I made an announcement in my own head that I was a gay woman.”
The System Operates As Designed
Burnout is not simple tiredness. It is malaise and unexplained pain. It is a theft of spirit and the creative body.
Mini Crossword Is Full of It
What did the taco say to the guacamole?
Quiz: Answer Upsetting Questions and I’ll Tell You What Movie To Watch and Where
The movie/place combinations are slightly upsetting in and of themselves and yet also soothing if you really think about it, okay?
“There’s Nothing I Can’t Do”: Harlem’s Jerrie Johnson on Tye’s Self-Discovery and Breaking the Binary
“This binary is so new and so American and so beneficial to the patriarchy and white supremacy.”
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Episode 1509 Recap: Spine-Tingling
We’re celebrating an actually monumental moment in Drag Race herstory. It’s the show’s 200th episode!
Francesca Farago Only Stayed On “Perfect Match” ‘Cause They Let Her Date a Woman
“I knew who was there, men-wise, and I was like, ‘I don’t know if I can waste anyone’s time by continuing to match with these men that I know I’m not going to get along with.'”
Baopu #109: Don’t Spiral
…which is always easier said than done, but know that you are seen, all the way.