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!
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.
“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.
Cecilia Chung described three ways: hilarious, survivor, and one of the mothers of the modern trans movement.
Books to break your reading slumps, queer adult comics creators living under FOSTA/SESTA, new Simone de Beauvoir, Meryl Streep’s bookshelves and more.
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.
Sara wakes up from her coma to find she can only see the future, and it involves a murder mystery.
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.
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!
But who gets custody of the rescue puppies and the sex bench?!?!?
Coronavirus commercials are getting more and more aggressive.
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!
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.
Plus, Gaby Dunn does cool baby sitter cosplay and I am praying Sarah Paulson makes “Winnie Wednesdays” a permanent thing.
“So keep on living. Get on the other side of this. There’s more.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.