Extra! Extra!: Reopening Spikes and New COVID-19 Transmission Info Ring Us into Pandemic Summer

As the world crosses half a million confirmed deaths due to COVID-19, this week’s Extra! Extra! turns its focus to the latest COVID news and the disparate toll of the virus. In the US, battles are raging on reopening schools in the next month or so and the Supreme Court had another big week of rulings. Meanwhile, police brutality and intimidation, along with activism against police violence, continue.

Straddleverse

This is Your Friday Open Thread for July 10, 2020

A place to hang, chat, reminisce, scheme, ponder, work together, dream, exist.

Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Powering Up

“How can I become a member of the Wubble? Just curious.”

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AF+ Lesbian Sex

S L I C K: Yes, Daddy

I wanted you to dominate me, Daddy, and you relished the chance. The leather straps twirled through the air as the pain grew sharper and more familiar. It stung hard. And it felt so fucking good.

TV Lists

My Top 10 Television Shows: Carmen Phillips, Who Has Always Been Rooting For Everybody Black

“There isn’t a thing Friends did that Living Single didn’t do FIRST and with essentially 1/8th the budget. Tattoo it on my skin. I stand by it.”

Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Leonie Dorado Became Bolivia’s First Trans News Anchor in the Midst of a Pandemic, NBD

Gabrielle Bellot on having your existence up for debate, WNBA players on lockdown in Florida, the latest wave of Supreme Court decisions, Wales’ new queer bookshop and more!

Geekery

“The Last of Us Part II” and the Never Ending Endings of Endlessness

I did my best to not let my lurking paranoia get in the way of being happy during certain portions of the game but it was an ever present feeling. Even now, having finished the game, it is still there. The few times I forgot about it I found myself taking comfort in two women deeply in love, in the shit together.

TV News & Trailers

Meet Your New Batwoman — Bisexual Actress Javicia Leslie!

I texted Autostraddle Deputy Editor Carmen Phillips as soon as I saw the news and she said, “Here’s your official quote: LET’S FUCKING GO!!!!!!”

LGBT Book Reviews

Glennon Doyle’s “Untamed”: A Gay Love Story About a Grown-Ass Woman Who Does What the F*ck She Wants

“There. She. Is.” Glennon wrote in her new memoir, Untamed, when she recalled the moment Abby Wambach entered her life. I assumed that would be the central conflict of Untamed. And in some ways it is — but not the ways I expected.

Movie Reviews

“Shirley” Dominates the Viewer in This Queer Psychodrama Fictionalization of Shirley Jackson

How the fictionalized film on the horror writer Shirley Jackson bends the line of reality.

Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Due To a Technical Error This Post Contains Nine (9) Copies Of the Same Picture of Mercedes Mason

Mercedes Mason flexes (heh) a new quarantine hobby, and Rahne Jones is making me reconsider hats!

Movie Lists

My Top 10 Favorite LGBTQ Films: Riese, Who Appreciates Teen Angst, Suburban Ennui and Angelina Jolie

Includes Angelina Jolie two ways, a lot of coming-of-age, and Blake Lively’s 500-piece suit.

Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan’s Dinosaur Movie Will Wow You With The Power of Lesbian Touch

How Janelle Monáe built a character we don’t often see on TV, the history of The Baby-Sitter’s Club Phone, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Gemma Arterton are girlfriends in Summerland, and more!

Breakups Love + Sex

You Need Help: Why Can’t I Break Up With Them?

You owe it to yourself and your partner to be honest.

Two women sit in a coffee shop looking at a computer screen. A woman with brown skin and black curly hair holds a coffee cup and smiles while a woman with white skin and reddish brown hair on the left also looks at the computer and smiles. The woman on the left wears a collared shirt, the woman on the right, denim. They give off queer vibes.

Straddleverse

Take Autostraddle’s 2020 Reader Survey: We Want to Know All About YOU!

Tell us how you really feel!

Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: What Do You Mean Dog Years Aren’t Real??

The WNBA’s new Social Justice Council, China’s drag queens, Kristen Arnett on Dorothy Allison — and did a certain celesbian intellectual elope with her girlfriend? 👀

Book Features

How to Actually Accept Help from People Who Love You: An Excerpt from “The Art of Showing Up”

When someone I know is dealing with a difficult situation, I typically feel extremely “Put me in, coach!!!” But when I am the one in a difficult spot? Well, then, thanks so much for offering but I’m perfectly fine to handle this on my own!!! The fact is, asking for/accepting help is incredibly difficult for a lot of us—even those of us who know, logically, that no one can get through life alone.

TV Lists

11 Newish TV Shows With New Lesbian and Bisexual Characters

We’ve got a lesbian taxidermist in Run, a fish cop in Hightown, Janelle Monae in a rowboat and so much more.

LGBT Book Reviews

Rosalie Knecht’s Vera Kelly Is Not A Mystery, But Is a Gay Noir Must-Read

There’s another kind of revolution happening within this sequel, and that’s where Knecht really blows the doors off the noir genre.

Sex Toys

Anonymous Sex Toy Review: The Palm Power Extreme

The Magic Wand isn’t without critique. I have been yearning for a sleeker toy, something waterproof, a wand that doesn’t hurt my wrists and at times I want intensity without the rumble. This is why I was intrigued by the PalmPower Extreme!

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