Results for: work in progress
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Kristen Arnett on “With Teeth,” Lesbian Motherhood, and Sagittarius Chaos
“I want to read stories about dykes not acting right. I want to read about people being messy. So I want to write about that too.”
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Creative Interviewing Creatives: Chani Nicholas on Cosmic Playlists, the Election, and Activism
Chani Nicholas, Canadian-born Astrologer and New York Times best selling author of You Were Born For This: Astrology for Radical Acceptance, chats with Jackie about her Spotify Cosmic Playlists, healing justice and much more.
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Extra! Extra!: If Trump’s Administration Is So Incompetent, Why Is It So Efficient at Enacting Anti-LGBTQ Policies?
This week’s Extra! Extra! reports another bit of news that flew under the radar, this time regarding gun control (it’s not good, you guys). We also cover the heinous violence against three trans women in LA this week, USAID’s erasure of LGBTQ+ people and an update on what’s going on around the US regarding police violence and the protests. And then we turn to the elections – by which I mean Russia, Belarus and the US.
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“The Bold Type” Makes a Last-Minute Finale Change, But Kat’s Storyline Is Still a Huge Mess
“Instead of feeling like an affirmation for my disdain for Kat and Eva’s relationship, it feels like The Bold Type is re-emphasizing one of the things that makes the Kat/Eva storyline problematic: diminishing the show’s lead black character to bolster the bonafides of its white ones.”
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How to Successfully Flirt With the Babe of Your Dreams on Instagram
Any app is a dating app if you have confidence and a good selfie. Combine that attitude with Instagram’s many features for actually getting to know what someone is like and connecting with their life, and you’re halfway to adopting a cat with someone or just sucking their face off, whichever you’re looking for.
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Queer Tarotscopes for Virgo Season 2020: Are You Ready to Do the Hard Work with Yourself?
If Strength and Leo season was about finding fiery confidence in the face that we show to the world, Virgo and the Hermit ask us to shine that brilliant light inward, to recognize all that we are and all that we are capable of becoming. What have you been hiding from yourself?
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L Word Generation Q Episode 209 Recap: Last Dance For Buried Pain
TINNNNNAAAAAAAAAA is back, Finley’s missing, Bette and Pippa are protesting, Angie is prom-ing, Alice is interviewing and Sophie is searching on this week’s episode of The L Word Generation Q!
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Wonder Woman’s Star-Spangled Butt Has Always Been a Canvas for Feminist Hope and Male Misogyny
Zack Snyder and Joss Whedon were not, of course, the first men to use Wonder Woman’s body — and especially her butt — as a blank page onto which they could project their feelings about Wonder Woman, specifically, and women, generally.
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Check Out the A+ Community Bookshelf!
We bring you for the first time the first time the A+ Community Bookshelf: a crowdsourced project where A+ members can share the LGBTQ book recs that they want the rest of the A+ community to know about.
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Queer Horoscopes for February 2021: How Can We Get Somewhere Different from Here?
This year is bringing change, but we’re still feeling torn between the old world and the new.
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Into the A+ Advice Box #43: How Do You Reconnect With a Friend After Over a Year?
The Autostraddle team offers A+ members advice on topics from changing your name, to working as one of the only out queer teachers at a middle school, feeling pulled between different causes, maybe finally taking a break from a draining friendship, feeling like you don’t fit into queer community, and so much more!
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“Batwoman” Episode 207 Recap: The Corner of Memory Lane and Ocean Avenue
Ryan and Alice confront their pasts, Mary DRIVES THE BATMOBILE, and Sophie’s arms got something to say about it.
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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Self-Destructing Art
How to tell if you’re dating a narcissist, how to get better at talking about sex, a pandemic glory hole explainer, the self-destructing art show you don’t want to miss, and more.
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Queer Horoscopes for December 2020: Finding the Heat & Joy of Sagittarius Season in a Cold Moment
As we close out 2020, let’s remember that the revolution is just beginning. There is no “return to normal” but there can be a better future.
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34 Feelings You Have About Voting For Joe Biden
“I would vote for a dead dog if it was running against Trump.”
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“Wait, Is This a Date?” Podcast Episode 105: Best Sex Ever
Our episode topic this week is Best Sex Ever so we are talking about… the best sex we’ve ever had! We’re joined by Autostraddle writer, poet, and journalist Dani Janae as we get into what makes good sex good.
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Southern West Virginia Harm Reduction Gets Creative to Survive the Pandemic
“I can’t speak for all harm reduction efforts, and I think the impacts can be different depending on who you’re doing outreach with or who you are centering, but here in rural West Virginia, it’s a small community; the impact is so apparent.”
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“To L and Back” Generation Q Podcast Episode 208: Launch Party
“Sepideh Moafi’s tongue is acting. Her tongue has more compelling storylines this season than many of the core characters, I would argue.”
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Queer Horoscopes for January 2021: How Will Your Sign Move Through Crisis and Remap Your World?
2020 is dead! Congratulations on outliving it! 2021 is asking us to take our broken hearts and remap our world.
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Phyllis Lyon, Incomparable Lesbian Civil Rights Activist, Has Died at 95
The Bay Area Reporter is reporting that Phyllis Lyon, lesbian activist and half of first legally married same-sex couple in California along with her wife Del Martin, has died in her home at age 95.