Autostraddle’s 12th Birthday Member Drive, Membership Giveaway, and A+ AMA!
We’re going to be 12, we’re fundraising and we are celebrating your life-affirming, mind-blowing support with a giveaway, AMA and more!
“Dickinson” Season 2 Is an Ode to Emily and Sue
Dickinson puts queerness back in the narrative.
“Batwoman” Episode 206 Recap: Forehead Kisses and Other Kryptonite
Angelique and Ryan get closer, Sophie gets a new nickname, and Ryan’s Kryptonite wound is OUT OF CONTROL.
#PolyamoryProblems: How To Deal With Jealousy
This month, jealousy rears its pesky head for one polyamory veteran. Find out how to normalize jealousy, decode your feelings, and reframe jealousy as a gift to point you towards exploration and growth.
The Drop: “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” Is Big on Trauma, Slight on Queerness
“I fully understand they have to paint a picture of the times, and deep racial trauma and pain were a part of those times, but I found myself wondering why we need another gut-wrenching Black story on film.”
March 2021: What’s New and Gay To Stream
We’ve got Josie Totah in a movie about ‘zines vs. misogyny, Anna Camp as a terminally ill lesbian, HBO’s buzzy “high schoolers explore their sexuality” series “Genera+ion”, a dystopian dating app drama, the bad lesbian dinosaur movie and so much more!
Pop Culture Fix: Queer Celebs Celebrate the Golden Globes With Wife Smoochin’, Pizza, and Puppies
Jodie Foster kisses her wife on live TV, trailers for Shrill and The Handmaid’s Tale, Kate McKinnon flirts awkwardly, and more on Joss Whedon’s toxicity.
“To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 603: LMFAO With Rhea Butcher!
Riese: I guess if you marry Jodie Foster, you don’t have to do anything anymore.
Rhea: You don’t have to.
Carly: Nooooooo
Riese: I mean, you win!
Rhea: Yeah!
Riese: You win!
Rhea: I mean, you really do! That is it. That’s bingo, right there. “See you guys!”
Carly: You did it!
Rhea: “Later!!”
Carly: You did it.
Rhea: “I’m going to do my thing now. It’s only whatever I want, from here on out!”
Queer Horoscopes for March 2021: How Will You Let Pisces Season Restore You?
After many months of high-pressured astrology, Pisces season offers us a chance to rest and heal. But what does healing look like when we’re still in the midst of crisis?
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 77, February 2021
“Unless one of you all sent me a mesh shirt that said Pizza Slut???”
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Calling All Size Queers
When it comes to dildos, how big is too big? Also: what Venus in Pisces means for your love life, keeping an ex’s nudes, and more.
Editor’s Notes: On Black History Month 2021
I am unapologetically, over the moon, absolutely just cheesy cornball, would probably make you roll your eyes levels, proud of being Black, especially during this — the 28 Blackest days of the year.
Everything That Matters Is Stuck in the Back of My Throat
All I have is an ellipsis. Grief is a flat circle. And I never imagined I would have to live through grieving her.
Baopu #83: You and Me, Me and You
A ballad of companionship in the times of COVID.
Boobs on Your Tube: Even a Superqueero Sized Coma Couldn’t Keep Grace Choi Away on “Black Lightning”
Plus, an All-American episode that gives Bre-Z some of the best work of her career, biphobia rears its ugly head once again on grown-ish, and a hilarious and spooky episode of Nancy Drew!
“Batwoman” Exclusive Clip: Ryan and Sophie Sitting in a Bar, P-R-O-C-E-S-S-I-N-G
Sophie and Ryan go toe-to-toe in “Do Not Resuscitate.”
Extra! Extra!: What Does It Mean That the House Passed the Equality Act?
In this week’s Extra! Extra! Natalie weighs in on the significance of this moment and also gives us a grounded perspective on whether or not the 117th Congress will succeed in passing non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people where the 116th failed. We also look at American extremism, the vaccine roll out, the climate crisis and a smattering of domestic and global news.
The Great Pottery Throw Down Is Better Than Bake Off, There I Said It
What finally swung it for me was at the end of a recent episode when, out of nowhere, Dolly Parton appeared.
How Do You Scale a Personality Cult?
We do lose something when dedicated queer spaces like Into, Girlfriends and SheWired shutter or AfterEllen goes full TERF, but we also lose something when The Awl, The Hairpin and The Toast do. These were places where writers were free to experiment, to be weird, to make writer-first content that isn’t easily monetizable.
The Comment Awards Are Living in the Magic
“But brunettes…what? Brunettes WHAT, Cara?”