Surprise, It’s Depression: Recovery from Gender-Affirming Surgery
After gender-affirming surgery, many trans people experience post-operative depression. Awareness and the knowledge that you aren’t alone can help.
Things I’ve Never Asked My Girlfriend of Three Years About Age Gaps, Topping, and Our First Date
In part two of their intimate interview, Autostraddle Managing Editor Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya asks her girlfriend Kristen Arnett to define being a top and what she remembers about their first night together at a hotel bar.
You Need Help: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
I know I must sound like a broken record: “break up…break up…break up!” But I truly think that you both deserve the kind of relationship where your needs are being fulfilled.
Autostraddle March Madness: Better Halves — Baby Gays
Plus the Sci-Fi/Fantasy better halves you’re sending to the Autostraddle Sweet 16!
Making it Work: A Queer Author Screams into the Wind
I was a couple of months into transition, and re-examining my relationship with seemingly everything I’d taken for granted until then.
“Killing Eve” 405 Recap: Carolyn’s Flashback Episode Is a Mixed Bag
Eve makes a move against Hélène, and Hélène strikes back HARD.
Pop Culture Fix: Ariana DeBose Is the First Queer Person of Color, First Afro-Latina to Win an Acting Oscar
Plus all the queer couples who walked the red carpet at the Academy Awards, your gay faves and their gay moments, and a call to bring Brittney Griner home.
Jean Chen Ho on “Fiona and Jane,” the Eros of Friendship, and Finding Your Fiction Community
“When I was writing these women and their mothers, I wanted to show that these are individuals.”
Oscars 2022: Two Queers Discuss the Actually Kinda Gay 94th Academy Awards
Riese: “Does the driver count as a lesbian character do you think?”
Drew: “How could she not be?? Did you see her blazers??”
Quiz: Which Villanelle/Eve Moment Are You?
In this pick your own adventure style quiz, you get to imagine you’re a hot international spy in pursuit of a hot international assassin. Sound familiar?
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Episode 1412 Recap: Smells Like Queen Spirit
Ru tells the queens they can pick their parts which leads to more drama than Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet.
Baopu #97: Ancestry
A dream helps to untangle the emotional connection to an ancestral home and the need to understand it more as a queer person.
Boobs on Your Tube: NCIS: Hawai’i Has That Good Gay Angst
Also! Updates on Astrid & Lilly Save the World, Charmed, and All American.
Autostraddle March Madness: Better Halves — Sci-Fi/Fantasy
One TV Team member called this region “mean.” Another called it a “hate crime.”
The Drop: Lizzo’s “Watch Out for the Big Grrrls” has Depth, Drama — and So Much Ass
Dani Janae and Shelli Nicole chat through their thoughts on Lizzo’s new reality series that’s for the big girls!!
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.”
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” Let Me Dream Of A Gay Indian Future
Could it be the rare Bollywood film that lets gay desires and dreams take center stage?
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?
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.”