You Need Help: How Do I Let Go of Feeling Guilty After Coming Out Late in Life?
I’m happy and grateful to be out, but I can’t get past feeling like I have created pain and difficulty for so many people.
Bonus Time: Living To Be Queer Elders
In QTPOC community, the future can feel precarious. If queerness is so often associated with action and survival, how do we learn to slow down and rest so we can live long enough to grow into the queer elders we always dreamed of having?
Corinne Manning’s “We Had No Rules” Grapples With Queer Assimilation
In their debut story collection We Had No Rules, Corinne Manning makes a rare, generous offer to the queer community: to hold us accountable.
Also.Also.Also: Young M.A Is Making a Strap-On Starter Kit. This Is Not a Drill (Or Is It)
Meet the trans woman making professional soccer history, talking about the behind-the-scenes fashion that makes Killing Eve so hot, plus how to combat those “Sunday scaries” and more!
2019 By the Numbers: An A+ Member Exclusive
Who loves infographics??? WE DO!!
“Supergirl” Episode 512 Recap: Compulsory Heterosexuality
Alex and Kara work to stop the Toyman once and for all while Lena continues working with her brother to figure out Non Nocere.
“Kajillionaire” Review: Evan Rachel Wood Deals in Queer Romance, Trauma, and Petty Theft
Miranda July’s new feature, starring a magnificently weird Evan Rachel Wood, is a careful, long-game-playing meditation on how we can learn to parent ourselves when our own families refuse to do the job.
Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: February’s Revolutionary Hope
I’m pairing Audre Lorde’s 1984 conversation with James Baldwin and arguably her best-known speech, “The Masters Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” in hopes of exploring how our power and freedom lie in embracing our differences as the source of our strength.
“To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 308: “Latecomer” With Rhys Ernst
Feast your eyes upon the chaotic screencaps of “Latecomer,” which involves Kit recording that song and everybody taking a private jet to a WNBA game. You know the one.
Sunday Funday Is Studying Queer TV History With Rachel Maddow
Queers and country music, queers on TV, queers in tango! Happy Sunday, we’re everywhere!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Living Apart Together
Why sex parties are great, why blocking your ex is better, why actually we should all just delete social media and never look back and also never link it to a dating app, and more.
The Dyke Kitchen: Diaspora Co. Queers Your Spice Cabinet
Sana Javeri Kadri brings her whole queer life to Diaspora Co., her company that’s decolonizing the spice trade, supporting Indian small farmers, and delivering banging spices to your kitchen.
The Lakeview Crew #1: Love Letters
Welcome to “The Lakeview Crew,” our newest Saturday comic! In our first post, every year Max writes their friends Valentines Day Letters.
Boobs on Your Tube: The Bold Type’s Throwing a Sex Party! Happy Valentine’s Day!
Plus updates on All American, some incredibly important episodes of Grown-ish and Deputy, and the TV Team made you a special valentine that’s full of our favorite tv ladies kissing.
“Good Trouble” Episode 215 Recap: Palentine’s Day
Callie and Mariana Adams Foster have always been the heart of this show so it’s fitting that they’d be reunited for Valentine’s Day.
You Need Help: How Do I Navigate Being Monogam-ish With My Bi Girlfriend?
“Right off the top, it’s crucial for me to say this: being monogamous and being bisexual are not mutually exclusive. This is a really problematic stereotype that has to go, like yesterday.”
Things I Read That I Love #307: “I Fall In Love (Cue Your Laughter)”
Topics include Victoria’s Secret, The Americans, gatekeeping in publishing, CollegeHumor, slavery re-enactments, Angola, vaping and so much more!
The Comment Awards Are A Bunch Of Happy Little Trees
“Who else saw Janelle Monáe in that flower outfit and wanted to watch things BURN?”
Extra! Extra!: A New News & Politics Roundup Just for You
Autostraddle’s political news roundup is a new weekly series where we will watch the world burn down together and try, in our way, to put out one small fire. This is a space where Autostraddle writers will come together to discuss the latest current events and why we think they’re important. This week: impeachment proceedings, rights for trans kids in South Dakota, Pete Buttigieg and more!
What Sets A Lady On Fire: @notallgeminis Valentine’s Day Memes
A very special astrological meme valentine from @notallgeminis to Autostraddle. Find your sign, check your Venus and Mars, see what sets your heart aflame.