“I’m a passionate person” I might write in a dating profile, which sounds harmless and doesn’t touch the deep smolder I experience daily. We’re bringing you stories in this issue from people who are also deeply moved and motivated by their feelings — about desire, about truth-seeking, about fighting for change, about fighting the body.
This is going to go great, I swear! Here are six tips to get you started.
“P.S. I’d hoped the picture I submitted would be with my neighborhood turkey that I’ve enjoyed searching for on my daily walk…”
This week’s Extra! Extra! COVID-19 looks at the pandemic from a few angles: personal experiences of having the virus, how the pandemic is affecting sex workers and how corruption, profiteering and discrimination are alive and well, even during a pandemic.
Get ready to love Alice Wu more, Marceline and Princess Bubblegum are back, the final She-Ra trailer, the horniest episode of Xena, Janelle Monae’s new horror film has a release date, and a Wonder Woman spin-off about Amazonians!
“There’s a once-in-century virus eating away at the fabric of everything we know about how to live, just let the gays kiss for once! Let women of color win the fucking Oscar!” Drew, Riese and Carmen binged Ryan Murphy’s newest Netflix release, and they can’t wait to talk about it.
Melissa Benoist makes her directing debut, Alex eats dumplings, and Lena wears one hell of a suit.
I’m not trying to work up a sweat here, I’m trying to eat a fucking potato.
There aren’t a ton of songs specifically about vague longing in the middle of a global pandemic, so consider this playlist a narrative journey of feelings.
Raise your hand if you remember Papi’s rules of poker!
Happy Sunday! Let’s get tipsy with some divas in robes, watch some queer fantasy films, fall in love with teen lesbians, support insider art, learn the history of the world according to cats and more!
What it’s like to film Zoom orgy porn, how one strip club is staying open, ways to experience a partner’s touch when you’re apart and more.
I’ve scrounged the internet for totally FREE (and legal) digital copies of amazing queer books. Groundbreaking trans fiction, comics, queer classics, and more!
“Thank you for coming to this emergency roommate meeting… I don’t want to be rude but DAMN YOU BOTH.”
Another jam packed week! Here’s more on (deep breath): 911, One Day at a Time, black-ish, God Friended Me, Boomerang, Station 19, In the Dark, Rosewell, S.W.A.T, The Baker and the Beauty, Tommy, Top Chef, Vagrant Queen, and yes — Motherland: Fort Salem!
In this week’s Extra! Extra! we honour International Workers’ Day, take a hard look at the federal judiciary and the social safety net, examine the political and personal aftermath of gun violence, and more.
“Just thinking about hearing the door creaking sound effect has leveled me.”
It can feel like the only responsible story is one where a trans teen is certain of their identity and is allowed to transition. But that’s not the experience of so many kids both trans and cis.
I don’t want to be caught parading around in last generation’s false sense of security. I’m kicking off Autostraddle’s first Asian Pacific Islander American (APIA) Heritage month by exploring the values my own South Asian and Japanese American parents and grandparents imparted to me, to learn to carry them forward.
“Could you not have shipped out some PPE before we read this article? I just spit out my tea laughing, and probably infected the tomato plants.”