A collage styled to look like Polaroid pictures in front of a black background, inside each “Polaroid” is a new Autostraddle writer, left to right and top to bottom: Ashni is a South Asian person with shoulder length hair in black sunglasses and black shirt sitting outside on the grass; Yash is a mixed race South Asian person in a grey baseball cap and a grey shirt over a white one, they are smiling; Amari is a Black person with long braids that have gold details outside in New York City at night; Julie is an East Asian person in glasses and blue shirt underneath a black coat drinking a large fruity drink; Niko is a white trans woman with long blond hair covering her face and a red hoodie sweatshirt; Analyssa is a Latina with ombre blonde highlights in her hair, she’s giving a confident look sitting in her car; Darcy is a white person with a brunette bob in a grey and black henley shirt, standing in front of a dart board that is lit in rainbows; Em is a mixed race Southeast Asian person with round dark sunglasses, their hair swept to the side, in front of water; shea is a Black person with a Caesar cut and glasses in a denim coat with the collar up around their neck over a. Yellow shirt; Lily is a Latine person laying on the ground with their hair flared around them like a halo; Stef is a white person in black jeans and a black t-shirt with a graphic on it, standing outside; Katie is a white woman with blonde hair and ombre pink highlights, she has pink lipstick and is in front of a green bush wall; a drawing of A. Tony shows a Black person with a Caesar cut and glasses and a pink and black jersey in front of a teal background; and finally Sai’yda is a Black person with a high top fade and glasses, a grey sweater, smiling in front of a brick wall.

Straddleverse

Welcome Autostraddle’s Newest Writers!

Say hello to the 14 (yes, you heard that right!) new writers who are helping to make Autostraddle brighter and sharper.

The cover of You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi features a Black femme's face against a plant and a red background. The cover is repeated three times.

LGBT Book Reviews

In Their Debut Romance, Akwaeke Emezi Writes a Kind of Love I Recognize

The friendship central to You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty is as important as the romance.

Sonja Morgan, a white blonde woman, and Alex McCord, another white blonde woman, are wearing wedding dresses and looking puzzled.

LGBT Pride TV Feature

This Episode of “Real Housewives of New York” Was Performative Pride Allyship at Its Finest

“March Madness”, as completely unhinged and dated as it is, also reveals something far more depressing and contemporary: Nothing has really changed.

Music

14 Boy Band Songs That Would Be Better If They Were Sapphic

Professing your eternal love to someone who has literally never expressed romantic interest? Must be sapphic.

Photo 1: Helga from Hey Arnold. Photo 2: Alex Mack from The Secret World of Alex Mack. Photo 3: Shelby Woo from The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo. Photo 4: Clarissa from Clarissa Explains It All. Photo 5: Melody Hanson from Hey Dude!. Photo 6: Cassie from Animorphs. Photo 7: Angelica Pickles from The Rugrats. Photo 8: Eliza Thornberry from The Wild Thornberries.

Quizzes

Quiz: Which ’90s Nickelodeon Heroine Are You?

For this quiz, you’re headed to sleepaway camp!

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Sports

Autostraddle’s WNBA Fantasy League Proves You Cannot Win Without The Gays

“How do I pick Candace Parker for all five starting line up spots?” — Autostraddle Editor in Chief Carmen Phillips

A small, brown and white dog peeking over their laptop screen, with a caption that says "Hey did you see that comment?!"

Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Barely Balancing on this Skateboard

“The DIY, ‘we’re making and taking our space’ vibe was intensely creative. I see Autostraddle as right in line with that history.”

In front of a collage in a wavy background in colors of orange, green, purples, and blues there are cut outs of famous straight movies from the last ten years. L to R: Viola Davis in Widows, Beyonce in Lemonade, Channing Tatum in Magic Mike XXL, Saoirse Ronan and Beanie Feldstein in Lady Bird, and Sasha Lane in American Honey.

LGBT Pride Movie Lists

The Best Straight Movies of the Past 10 Years

A dazzling portrait of a white heterosexual girl’s coming-of-age, Lady Bird gave us a straight character anyone can root for.

Nina and Dre listen to Keisha explain her decision to go to college and move into on-campus housing.

TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: Our Lesbian Moms Are Back for “The Chi” Season 5

Plus updates on For All Mankind and Roswell, New Mexico. If you’re looking for a safe place to land to talk about queer TV after a devastating news week, you’ve come to the right place.

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Literature

Things I Read That I Loved #327: Every Misunderstood Youth Must Be In Want of a Publisher.

Topics include Child Protective Services, wrongful convictions, abortion, OXO kitchen products, safety town, getitng cancelled in high school, Joel Kim Booster, MTV Books and more!

Two pills with diagonals across are rolling against an orange and pink background (the orange and pink lighting is also making the pills look pink)

Health

Medication Abortion 101

Here is everything I know about medication abortion so that you can access the care you need, share it with a friend, or save it for that just-in-case moment.

Today is a good day to donate to an abortion fund: A black person holds a large blue sign in the sky that says "Keep Abortion Legal."

Politics + Activism

89 Abortion Funds That You Can Give To Immediately

Today is the fucking day to give to an abortion fund.

Two pairs of hands — one with dark brown skin tone and one with light tan skin tone — hold each there across a wooden table surface.

Society + Culture

We Will Protect Each Other: A Queer Feelings Atrium After the Fall of Roe

I don’t have more eloquent words at the moment. One thing I know for certain, we will protect each other. We’re here for each other.

A dashboard with flowers resting on it. Through the windshield, there's an open road lined with trees.

First Person LGBT Pride

This Pride, I Want To Be Left Alone

A too rarely understood or acknowledged privilege, especially when so much LGBTQ+ discourse is about the power and importance of visibility, is the pleasure of invisibility.

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AF+

A+ Sex Diary: So This Is What It’s Like To Live With Your Girlfriend

“When we get home I beg to go down on her — I know you’re tired, I say, I know it’s a work night, but please…”

Kristen Kish on the set of Iron Chef in a pink pinstripe suit

TV Feature

Kristen Kish on “Iron Chef,” Power Suits, and the Freedom to Be Her Queer Self

“The storytelling of food is getting, literally and figuratively, more colorful.“

A light skinned black woman with a large brown afro has dark purple lipstick and a black t-shirt, she's looking off to the right of camera. She's in front of a blue background.

Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: The Perfect Black T-Shirt, Because It’s 90% Of What You’ll Wear This Summer

How to be a good person without annoying everyone, a recession might end the work-from-home revolution, and all of today’s scary Supreme Court decisions in one place — just like ripping off a band aid.

Beanie Feldstein and Bonnie Chance Roberts, who are now engaged, pose at the World Premiere of the new film "Cats"

Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Happy Pride to Beanie Feldstein, Who Just Got Engaged!

In an interview last year, Beanie Feldstein said she hoped to one day be married to her girlfriend with babies and puppies running around. She’s well on her way!!! I love love!!!!!

Love + Sex Sponsored

We Hosted a Virtual Workshop on COVID-19 and Queer Sexual Health!

Last week, we partnered with Rainbow Health to host a virtual workshop on COVID-19 and queer sexual health. Here’s a complete transcript of what went down!

The cover of Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour features a glass with a cocktail in it and a vase with flowers in it. The image is repeated three times.

LGBT Book Reviews

“Yerba Buena” Is the Perfect Book To Bask in This Summer

Yerba Buena accomplishes in one novel what Sally Rooney attempted in three. And I say this as an on-the-record devoted Rooney Tune!

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