Asshole, Autistic and Other A-Words of My Love Life
Something was deeply wrong with me, something shameful. Turns out, the truth is more complicated.
QUIZ: Which Queer Spooky Book Should You Read This October?
Whether you want to be scared out of your wits by a haunted house story, disturbed by body horror, feel warm and fuzzy about witches falling in love, or vicariously get feminist revenge by reading about teen girl werewolves eating slimy men, there is a queer spooky book for you!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Fingering With Any Nails They Want
Fingering with long nails is not only possible but also encouraged and so is healing from past relationships.
So! How Is The Autostraddle Fundraiser Going?
Let’s talk about it!
Well, That’s Mortifying: That Time I Didn’t Know About Roger Clemens
The class erupted in wide-eyed giggles and guffaws and I continued smiling at the front of the room, confident and certain that I’d made a very smooth move.
Boobs on Your Tube: New Amsterdam Keeps Saying Love Is Not a Lie But THAT’S Also a Lie!
Also! Updates on Rosewell, New Mexico and Nancy Drew and American Horror Story and Work in Progress!
The Morning Show: We Are Having So Much (Gay) Fun!
“I AM HAVING SO MUCH FUN!” Bradley yells from the floor where she is sitting (gay) and eating a plate of waffles.
Newfest 2021: Ruth Caudeli’s “Leading Ladies” Takes Dyke Drama Seriously
The various plots of Leading Ladies — with their backstabbing, cheating, and litigious consequences — would fit right in on The L Word. And yet they couldn’t feel more different.
Autostraddle Predicted the Future in 2014 đź”® And We Were Spot On
A+ is a key part of the reason Autostraddle can be the way that we are today, and why we can publish what you love.
The Comment Awards are Wearing Fuzzy Wuzzy Slippers
“I was indifferent to Miss Honey, but was really into Trunchbull, and no, I don’t want to unpack that.”
“Twenties” Episode 201 Recap: A New Dawn, A New Day
“After you sleep with the woman of your dreams, there’s only one right thing to do in that situation, which is to badly sing Anita Baker and also tell her you want to marry her.” Welcome to Autostraddle’s Twenties recaps!
Anti-Blackness and Bioessentialism Won’t Give Us Abortion Rights
On Lil Nas X, fake pregnancy, and projections on social media.
On Blackness and “The L Word: Generation Q”
Black queer people are in this community. Trans queer people are in this community. And we deserve to get lost in a good time, too. We deserve fun, messy, sexy storylines. Just as much as any cis white woman over 50.
S L I C K: The Cool of the Marble
Our narrator takes their sub over the edge. “I am so lucky to be the custodian of your pleasure and your pain, pet.”
“Batwoman” Episode 301 Recap: We’re All a Little Bit Mad
Sophie smashing women into walls in a sexy way! The one and only Renee Montoya! And the look Ryan gives her gal pal! We’re back, Bat-fam!
“Legends of Tomorrow” Episode 701 Recap: Big Top (Energy)
The Legends are back with circus shenanigans, bank robbery, and just a touch of accidental homicide.
No Time for Hell, Yet. Or: Is This Essay Really Just About My Inbox?
You would think that, as someone living, not in actual Paris, but the “Paris of Appalachia” as they call Pittsburgh, that Brexit would leave me largely unaffected, but dear reader, you would be wrong!
The Book That Helped Me Leave Religion: Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle”
The first sentence of “The Books of Bokonon” – the fictional foundational text of Bokononism, the religion Kurt Vonnegut invented for his 1963 novel Cat’s Cradle – reads as follows: “All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.”
“Supergirl” Episode 615 Recap: Hope Floats
Alex and Kelly welcome Esme into their lives while Kara and Lena try to get the hope totem before Nyxly does.
Pop Culture Fix: The New Scream Is Queer and Not Just Because Neve Campbell Is Your Root
Also! JoJo Siwa is Prince Charming, Trans Netflix employees are staging a walkout to protest the transphobic Dave Chappelle stand-up special, and Beanie Feldstein is your new Harriet the Spy!