What Was Your AIM Screen Name and Do You Wanna Log Back On?
“Just thinking about hearing the door creaking sound effect has leveled me.”
“Better Things” Tells an Important Trans Story — By Not Telling a Trans Story
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.
The Illusion Of Safety
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.
The Comment Awards Are Mild & Annoyed
“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.”
Queer Horoscopes for May 2020: Venus Is Here to Teach Us About Love and Time Travel
As we feel stuck in the eternal now, Venus retrograde means it’s time to time travel.
S L I C K: Constellations #2 Paige & Tacey A Good Girl
Tacey gasped as Paige’s hand came back down, slap slap slap, in quick succession on both of her cheeks. Paige murmured, “Good girl,” and smoothed her palms over Tacey’s wide ass, using her nails to scratch and tickle.
Also.Also.Also: Let Your Bi Flag Fly, Colors Can’t Have Copyright
Megan Thee Stallion/ Beyoncé “Savage” Remix, you can’t profit off of Bi pride, the 29 best red lipsticks of all time, and have you ever stopped to think: Quarantine culture really just is lesbian culture? Homemade hummus and all.
Happy Hour at Home: We Can Pickle That
Hot dilly beans! Pickle plates! Flirting with pickles!
“Riverdale” Episode 418 Recap: The Teens Are Not OK
David Lynch could never! Business rivalries, traumatic videotapes, and almost-cheating abound! Toni and Cheryl are present, but ARE THEY?!
I Want You to Touch Me: Skin Hunger and Digital Dysphoria in a Pandemic
Chances are, you know someone who is quarantining alone right now. Maybe even you, yourself, are alone, and have been for the past several weeks. If so, it’s important to learn how this extraordinary circumstance might be effecting your mental, emotional, and physical health – and what steps you can take to mitigate and reduce that harm.
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 68, April 2020
“oh yeah we haven’t even scraped the surface of pandemic sex dreams”
A Love Letter to Alice Wu’s “The Half Of It”
You’re as epic as the concept of love and as small as the town of Squahamish. You’re as perfect as a movie can be and as messy as a movie should be. To say it simply, I love you.
Queer Miracles: You Defied the Odds with Collective Action & LGBTQ Community, Earned My Undying Love
I hope you sit for a moment and know that you gifted us — and so many other people — with a serious dose of hope. You are making sustainable, community-supported independent queer media possible.
Alice Wu on “The Half Of It,” Artistic Integrity, and Her High School Crush
“Being a closeted teen who wasn’t even aware meant I just listened to melancholy songs and imbued an unrealistic amount of meaning to them.”
Making Beltane Meaningful in Lockdown
Beltane is fast approaching and for many of us it’s going to be a solo celebration this year.
Welcome Our New Trans Subject Editor, Xoai Pham!
Xin chào! My name is Xoai Pham. I’m the new Trans Subject Editor at Autostraddle.
No Filter: Hair Changes Abound for Housebound Hayley Kiyoko, Rhea Butcher and You Too, Probably!
Also, Holland Taylor shares a TBT sketch of herself that I simply must own.
“Legends of Tomorrow” Episode 510 Recap: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Ava leads the charge to Hell to get answers from Astra while Zari faces off with a dinner party full of Encores.
Natalie Diaz Writes the Love Poem for Our Lives in “Postcolonial Love Poem”
Postcolonial Love Poem is everything the title purports it to be. It positions itself between the worlds of love and violence, and answers the question of where love can exist in a nation with a long list of atrocities, especially against Native people.
Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: April’s Arithmetics of Distance
This is dedicated to those who are just trying to make it through every day. It’s been gratifying on an almost cellular level to find that the queen mother Audre Lorde can so frequently speak to the times and places in which we find ourselves. Her final book of poetry, “The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance,” is no exception.