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.
Tell Me Something Good Please I’m Begging You: A 2020 Roundtable
The Autostraddle team racked our brains and came up with our personal 2020 highlights. This year, even the smallest wins count.
25 Most-Read Autostraddle Posts of 2020
From lists of streaming TV shows to lists of streaming movies, these are the most popular posts of 2020!
A Year of Intersex Victories
2020 wasn’t quite a victory for many people. But the intersex community has much to celebrate.
Scenes from a Gender 03: Trans Resilience Throughout 2020
In a year of incredible trials, the trans community has continued to build the connection and interdependence necessary to thrive and usher in a better world.
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 75, December 2020
“Rachel — just a heads up that you are at the top of my list of bisexuals most likely to have cut their own hair with a sword.”
Grounding Ourselves for 2021: A NYE Round Table & Open Thread
In a chaotic world, how will you show up for yourself and provide yourself with the consistency you need in the new year and beyond?
Lez Liberty Lit: Drown Me In Best-of Lists
One last wave of all the “Best of 2020” lists you can handle! Plus, Roxane Gay is starting a book club, Carmen Maria Machado’s cheese ball recipe, how to be a girl detective, learning to be OK with being bored, and more.
69 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Your Way in Winter 2020 and 2021
I believe we are in living in a truly incredible time for queer and feminist books. For proof, I offer you this majestic — if I do say so myself — list of queer and feminist books hitting shelves this winter.
Pop Culture Fix: Javicia Leslie’s Mom Knew She Was Bisexual Before Javicia Did
How Wonder Woman failed Cheetah, ranking Peppa Pig’s biggest beefs, Tracker McDyke, same-gender dæmons in His Dark Materials, and more!
The Best 2020 TV Shows With LGBTQ Women and Non-Binary Characters
Autostraddle’s TV Team shares our picks for the best TV shows of 2020 featuring girls, gays and theys.
Foolish Child #87: Dildosaurus Rex
“Actually, I know all 100 species of dinosaur and that is not one of them.”
No Filter: Da Brat Made Your 2021 Vision Board for You
Janelle Monáe is your biggest motivator, Trace Lysette frees the nipple, Melissa King is still the boss, and more!
Every James Bond Theme Song, Ranked by Their Lesbian Energy
“I love a ballad that reaches it’s climax with a big note. Lesbians known all there is to know about reaching a climax so there ya have it.”
Harm Reduction in Hard Times: What Safety & Care Around Drug Use Can Teach Us During COVID-19
Even prior to COVID-19, harm reduction has been a strategy of leftist organizing and key to an abolitionist future. Building a politics which acknowledges how layers of marginalization impact your health outcomes, and still goes “beyond just surviving to actually enjoying our lives and accounting for those health disparities,” is the goal.
Extra! Extra!: Making Sense of What’s Actually Happening with the Stimulus Package
Extra! Extra! is on a bit of a holiday schedule, so we’re here today to round out 2020 with the news from the last couple of weeks. In this week’s Extra! Extra! we cover judicial actions on LGBTQ+ rights in the U.K. and the U.S., the latest in Trump corruption scandals and pardons, updates on the COVID-19 pandemic and the recently passed stimulus package and more.
Also.Also.Also: Happy New Year! Have a Gay Old Time!
15 things that prove queer women won 2020, the fight to include HIV-positive people in COVID-19 vaccine trials, women undoubtedly ran rap music this year, and Christine Baranski knows you love her. It’s the last link roundup of the year so I made it MAXIMUM sized, let’s do this!
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Is Queer Women Culture
There’s nothing inherently more lesbian about watching two famous cishet Rachels playact queerness than watching a nonbinary drag queen kiss the shoulder of a trans woman drag queen.
BTW, Shannon Berry from “The Wilds” is Queer
The stars of The Wilds say it’s a great day to be gay.
Reading List for the Revolution: Angela Davis & Radical Inspiration for 2021
What if we all committed to a radical reading list for 2021? What would we learn? And with this, what could we do? This collection of books will set you up with hope and pathways toward radical change in 2021.