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Straddleverse

Autostraddle Is Hiring New Writers for Our Team! Is That You?

We’re looking to bring some more writers on our team and listen — maybe perhaps you are one of them?

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Book Lists Quizzes

Quiz: Which Queer Romance Novel Should You Read This February?

This February celebrate love NOT being a lie by reading a queer romance novel.

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Playlists Valentine's Day

Playlist: Love Songs Gifted By Exes

I asked some of my friends whether they had any love songs that they still love today, originally given to them by exes.

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TV Show Recaps

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Episode 1406 Recap: Pay It Some Mind

“This is a riff on Marsha P. Johnson saying her P. stood for ‘pay it no mind’ and this ‘homage’ with the added capitalist flair may be the single most accurate distillation of RuPaul’s Drag Race ever.”

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Food and Drink

20 Queer Bakers To Follow on Instagram

Fill your Instagram feed with allllllll the pastries, breads, and sweet treats by following these queer bakers and queer-owned bakeries.

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TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: Niecy Nash’s “Claws” Says Goodbye

Plus also! Updates on The Real Dirty Dancing, 4400, Queens and grown-ish.

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Valentine's Day

Hot, Creative Ways to Spend Valentine’s Day With Yourself, Your Friends or Your Partner(s) That Don’t Involve Flowers or Chocolate

Let’s take Valentine’s Day by its fuzzy, pink horns and hold on for dear life.

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Curling in the Winter Olympics

“Yes, give me a Nordic woman who can ski a lot then shoot an animal and haul it back to our cabin for dinner! Sign me up!”

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Music Pop Culture Fix

Five Things to do While Listening to Jasmin Savoy Brown’s “Orange Wine”

This song is well-suited for so many licentious scenarios.

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Music

Every Song on Tegan and Sara’s “So Jealous,” Ranked

The melodrama of So Jealous is hard to resist. It’s emotionally indulgent heartbreak music, whether your heart is breaking or not. And now, it’s back.

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Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: The White House Said “Gay Rights” I Guess 😕

Black queer businesses to support this Black History Month, Samira Wiley on body shaming, and yes that “should you wear shoes in other people’s homes” discourse that’s going around.

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AF+

S L I C K: Dream a Little Dream

Gia wakes up from a passionate sex dream and puts her favorite vibrator to work. “She felt her own wetness against their hand, allowing her to move faster with more soft moans tumbling out of her mouth.”

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Television

Survive Batwoman’s Hiatus With These Wildmoore Memes

Batwoman is on hiatus until the Winter Olympics are over, which is probably why my heart is STARVING TO DEATH.

A pink building stands against a starless night sky with a full moon, and hands reach out. A handwritten note reads "No stars in a city means no room for wishes."

First Person

It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere

You can’t see the stars in the city I live in, so I would spend my nights out on my balcony, drinking, letting my eyesight go slack and drift into the black.

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Literature

Rainbow Reading: More Like Mercury READtrograde, Am I Right!

Learn more about the book whose “highlights include: a May/December queer romance, psychopaths on the loose, and a school for bad girls….” Plus, more book news and recommendations, including lots of author interviews and upcoming queer lit events!

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Webcomics

Foolish Child #113: Covid or Allergies?

Well, let me know if you need anything. Like… a second booster shot.

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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Shay Mitchell, Javicia Leslie and Jojo T. Gibbs Join Forces for a Holiday Rom-Com

Yellowjackets and Euphoria’s music supervisor only chooses “fucking bangers,” a Niecy Nash spin-off of The Rookie, and a new thriller from Cara Delevingne.