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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Will See You at Abbot Elementary

“Now I’m very excited for another Autostraddle article in another 11 years adding even more editorial inserts to Kayla’s current editorial inserts.”

In a still from Netflix's new The Ultimatum there are three women sitting together on a couch, left-to-rght: a white woman with a blonde bob and a black tank top, a light skinned black woman in a beige sweater, and a white woman with long blonde hair and not visible clothing above her shoulders. All three women are laughing.

TV News & Trailers

Netflix’s New Dating Show “The Ultimatum” Will Have a Majority Queer Women Season

For anyone addicted to Love Is Blind and found themselves wondering, “wow I wish this was approximately 93% gayer!”

Badhaai Do review: In this still fromBadhaai Do, Two women in a dressing room, one leans in to kiss her neck and the other looks in the mirror

Movie Reviews

“Badhaai Do” Let Me Dream Of A Gay Indian Future

Could it be the rare Bollywood film that lets gay desires and dreams take center stage?

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Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: There’s No Such Thing as an Ethical Billionaire, but Thanks Mackenzie Scott for the $275 Million to Planned Parenthood

Updates on Brittney Griner (she finally got access to US Embassy officials), how we talk about the pandemic still matters, and why don’t “size-inclusive” brands carry plus sizes in stores?

Gigi, a 35 year old Black woman wearing a pink pantsuit, with a gray-flecked afro, kisses Indigo, a younger, shorter, Black woman in her early 20's with dark brown skin, golden-brown waist-length braids. They kiss as bossa nova music, indicated by illustrated floating music notes, plays in the background.

AF+

S L I C K: Read Me

A bookstore employee who’s crushing on her hot, older boss, finally tells her how she feels (and finds out how her boss feels, too)! “Our moans were call and response, our bodies constellations.”

Two photo collage: Rose Rollins and one of the players on her team smiling. And one of the players in bed witha another.

TV News & Trailers

This Rose Rollins Lesbian Basketball Show Also Features Ezra Fitz Getting Punched in the Face

I don’t know about you, but I had forgotten just how, um, UNF! Rose Rollins’ voice is.

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TV Show Recaps

“Good Trouble” Episode 403 Recap: First Day and First Time

Big week for Malika: new job, first time with a girl! Bad week for Mariana: she is spinning out after Callie’s departure. Plus special guest star: Supergirl’s Nicole Maines!

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Gender Parenting & Family

I Wish I’d Medically Transitioned Before Giving Birth

Less than a year after giving birth, I decided to medically transition. I wish I’d done it sooner.

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Literature

Rainbow Reading: It’s Queer Lit Awards Season!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya guest hosts Rainbow Reading this week, highlighting new LGBTQ+ book releases, events, book sales, and more!

In a two panel comic with a bright blue sky, Dickens yawns. Their friend Saria notes, “oh are we back to boxes now”— referencing the comic style — and Dickens responds, “for no reason a all, I have no energy for anything more complex right now.” Saria responds to that with a question mark.

Webcomics

Foolish Child #116: Four Hours of Sleep

“Just saying all of that made ME tired.”

Book Lists Movie Lists TV Lists

22 Fictional Books From Movies and TV Shows We Would Really Like to Actually Read

Anybody got a copy of “Station Eleven” or um, “The Wrong Side of the Bed; Corruption, Cover-Ups and a Crisis of Culture on America’s #1 Morning Show”?

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Gender

What Trans Visibility Could Mean for Trans People, and Everyone Else

Visibility can be a trap in many ways because we never got to set the terms by which we are viewed.

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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: You Can Wear Whatever You Want to Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe’s Lesbian Wedding

Also! Che Diaz and the City will be back for a second season, why Amber Benson declined a Buffy comeback, and more Disney characters who were meant to be gay.