Animal Crossing FOMO? Here’s How to Start Playing Video Games!
If, like me, you’re planning to keep social distancing for the foreseeable future, maybe you should pick up video gaming for socialization and for fun!
Happy Hour at Home: Welcome To The Gay Club
I miss the rare fucking times of being in a room full of entirely queer people. Dancing and shouting together. Even the messy nights, the crying nights. So here’s how to turn your home into a hot gay club — with no bathroom lines! Playlist included!
HBO’s “Betty” Is Here and Its Skater Girls Are Queer
Sexual and gender fluidity feel possible for every character. It’s a girl power narrative that feels loose in its definition of girl — and certainly loose in its assumption of who those girls will date.
Fatimah Asghar’s Got Game: Watch Her New Short on Anxiety at a Queer Sex Party
“You can’t have a rulebook or a playbook for how to connect. When you’re queer, it’s about negotiating your own way, when the blueprint doesn’t work for you.” Fatimah Asghar discusses queerness, intimacy and her new short film Got Game, that you can watch exclusively on Autostraddle.
Honor Trans Elders: Cecilia Chung Is the Mother We All Wanted
Cecilia Chung described three ways: hilarious, survivor, and one of the mothers of the modern trans movement.
Lez Liberty Lit: What Will Your Practice Look Like?
Books to break your reading slumps, queer adult comics creators living under FOSTA/SESTA, new Simone de Beauvoir, Meryl Streep’s bookshelves and more.
Six Queer Asian Artists on “The Half of It” and the Future of Queer Asian Cinema
Alice Wu’s “The Half of It” has been for out less than a week, and it’s already become a classic. We brought together some of Autostraddle’s queer and trans Asian editors and writers — along with some of our writer friends and Generation Q’s Leo Sheng — to talk about the film, Alice Wu, and the current landscape of queer Asian media.
“Legends of Tomorrow” Episode 511 Recap: See Spot Kill
Sara wakes up from her coma to find she can only see the future, and it involves a murder mystery.
COVID-19 Is Laying Bare the Vulnerabilities of Sex Workers, So Often Canaries in the Coalmine
Centering sex workers, and the hard won lessons that come with being a part of this community, are perhaps the most important steps we can take in an effort both to reduce harm, and to rebuild in the aftermath of COVID19.
Pop Culture Fix: The “Pretty Little Liars” Moms Are Getting Drunk and Starting a Rewatch Podcast
Beanie Feldstein becomes a leading lady, Mrs. America’s hair designer explains those wigs, Portrait of a Lady on Fire meets Animal Crossing (again!), Lady Gaga is going ahead with Chromatica, and more!
BREAKING: Cara Delevingne and Ashley Benson Reportedly Split in Quarantine, Love Remains a Lie
But who gets custody of the rescue puppies and the sex bench?!?!?
Foolish Child #71: “We’re in this Together!”
Coronavirus commercials are getting more and more aggressive.
“Batwoman” Understands Everyone Is Gay in Gotham City
I can’t believe these heroes and villains have brought all their lesbian drama to bear on the resolution of the biggest arc of the season; I’ve been waiting to see this on TV my entire life!
Queered & Careered: 4 Questions to Build Up Your Brand While We’re at Home
Everyone builds or maintains their brand every time they walk into a room. The issue is that right now we’re walking into less and less rooms.
No Filter: Quinn Wilson’s Thighs Save Lives and Kate Moennig’s Dog Is Cute
Plus, Gaby Dunn does cool baby sitter cosplay and I am praying Sarah Paulson makes “Winnie Wednesdays” a permanent thing.
Respect Your Elders: Zoom With Lesbian Activist Phyllis “Seven” Harris
“So keep on living. Get on the other side of this. There’s more.”
Also.Also.Also: Oh F*Ck, the Coronavirus Really Might Be Lesbian Bars’ Final Blow
By the time we’re finally allowed outside, all the lesbian bars might be dead, for good this time. Also, giving love to modern day butch icons, imagining Met Gala fashion that could have been, and the USWNT lost their equal pay case because… patriarchy.
Quarantine Sex Diary: Am I Horny? Am I Bored? Am I Crying? Yes
I text her to let her know my treat is here and to ask if we can use it tonight. If you’re good, she texts. I’m always good, I write back. Suddenly I really want it to be tonight.
Four Transracial Asian Adoptees on Body, Place, Family, and Race
I believe my queerness makes my Asian-ness and my adoptee-ness stronger. I am more myself when I hold all these truths together than when I try to compartmentalize them.
We Deserve To Be Selfish
I was ready to declare myself and to bring everyone else who was ready along for the ride. I thought, “I’m going to put as many women as I can into one publication, and they’re gonna get to say whatever the f*ck they want.” And Selfish, the magazine, was born.