How To Take A Perfect Butt Selfie
We’re going to learn how to take a perfect ass selfie together in honor of Autostraddle’s Butt Week and your perfect butt.
AS Politics Survey: LGBTQ Health Care & Amy Coney Barrett’s Impacts
Amy Coney Barrett’s political views and her stances on several health care issues are going to inflict a lot of harm on many people. We looked at how important these issues are to our community, using data from the Politics Survey, to discuss what’s at stake with Barrett’s impending nomination to the Supreme Court.
“The Boys” Season 2 Gets Meta About Lesbian and Bisexual Representation
Elena pushes back on all this, saying she doesn’t want to change how she dresses and that actually Maeve is bisexual, but they say that the term lesbian is “an easier sell” because it’s “more cut and dry.”
Biden Addresses LGBTQ Protections while Trump Aggressively Meanders in Dueling Town Halls
Instead of one town hall, where audiences would get to hear from both candidates and where the candidates would get to critique each other live, voters had to choose between the dueling town halls. Or, you could just wait and let me watch them for you.
The Time I Wanted to Hug a TERF
A middle-aged transmasculine butch person meets a trans-exclusionary radical feminist in the vast forest of Tumblr. What happens next is both predictable and unexpected.
The Pandemic is Trauma for Trans Disabled People
An exploration of the pandemic experiences of trans disabled people with a focus on trauma and survivorhood.
The Comment Awards Are Breathing Deep and Voting Early
“She had me at ‘OI! DEAD BOYFRIEND! IT’S OVER, MATE!'”
Season of the Witch: 40 Books on Witches, Witchcraft and Wonder
Whether you’re interested in witches as a horror trope, a doorway to sex positivity, a topic of historical exploration, or rich characters and ideas in fiction or poetry, at least one of these witch books will bring something into your life!
Into the A+ Advice Box #21: Crushing on Your (Probably) Straight Friend, and More!
Advice for the cis, presumably het parents of a trans kid, Zoom dating while in the house with your parents, an urban legend and gay panic, gender feelings, squirting ALL of the time, and understanding your expectations in a relationship with someone who is not nearly as out!
Also.Also.Also: Caroline Giuliani, the Latest White Queer Millennial Trying to Save Her Parents From Trump
If you’re white and still haven’t had that hard conversation with your relatives, wow you are out of excuses. Also: binging Battlestar Galactica at the end of the world, examining the Grief Industrial Complex, gay college sweethearts who broke the trend and miraculously stayed in love, and more!
“Desert Hearts” Remains One Of Cinema’s Greatest Lesbian Love Stories
Donna Deitch’s queer love story is set in the ’50s and was filmed in the ’80s, and is still, in 2020, a radical piece of filmmaking.
Newfest 2020 Preview: Trans Teens, Jewish Funerals, and So Much More
If you live in the US you can watch the films! Even if you’re not in New York!
How Reading A Queer Latina Writer Helped Me Understand My Mother’s Story
Growing up, I felt I wasn’t enough. Not white enough. Not Latina enough. I’ve tried to look to my mother’s story as my own missing piece. I’ve made her story into a key that will unlock a feeling of place and belonging. As a writer, I look to stories to guide me.
The Angsty Buddhist: Growing Up Kinda-Sorta Buddhist
At my Catholic all-girls middle school, I liked to tell people I was Buddhist. It was my feeble attempt at preteen rebellion. I enjoyed interjecting, “Oh yeah? Well, I don’t believe Jesus was real because I’m Buddhist!”
Every Opening Line I’ve Received and Sent on Tinder Since the Pandemic Began
“How are you liking all this social distancing? It’s cool that you write for Autostraddle”
Take Me Home Tonight: Which Wet for Her Toy Are You Swiping Right On?
“Looking for a baby who wants to be pleasured and punished in the most loving of ways. I may look adorable, but I’m quite powerful and will make you shake with joy or fear – if you behave you get to choose.”
Growing Up With “Mucho Mucho Amor”: How Walter Mercado Defined My Life
I grew up in a conservative family so I never really knew the words to describe who I was but when I saw Walter Mercado in his finery and elegance, I knew I was like him.
Pop Culture Fix: Jamie Babbit’s “But I’m a Cheerleader” Director’s Cut Will Stoke Your Homosexual Tendencies
Also: All the Bly Manor links you can handle, Demi Lovato’s new anti-Trump protest song, Megan Thee Stallion’s NYT op-ed, Stevie Nicks figured out how to use TikTok before I did, and more!
Bex Taylor-Klaus and Alicia Sixtos Got Queer Married, Good Things Do Still Happen!
Their dog Duggie was also in attendance.
No Filter: Cara Delevingne Reaches Double Leopard Print Stage of Quarantine
It’s time to check back in on Cara Delevingne and Ashley Benson post break-up, Hayley Kiyoko is the cutest human GAP ad, Stacy London is cozy in glasses and in love, and how do we even live on the same planet as Janet Mock?