Femme Brûlée : Impeached Upside Down Cake
Well It happened! It really happened. Let’s be clear, I’d given up hope it was actually going to happen, but it did! Trump was impeached, history was made, and tbh I feel pretty jaded about it.
A-Camp Is Taking a Break in 2020
We’re pressing pause to rebuild.
Democratic Debate #6: Klobuchar Wins, Unequivocally
The highs, the lows, and everything in between.
The Comment Awards Want to Know Your Superpower
“I made you a sex bench! Now, who’s going to stain it?”
Things I Read That I Love #304: I Want to Pretend That I’m Cooler Than Crying About The Velveteen Rabbit
It’s really hot in Phoenix, Tinder as small talk purgatory, Anna Delvey, Millennials not afraid of death, Instagram face, Hallmark Movies, racism in banking and more!
What’s On Your Nightstand?
Turns out you can learn a lot about a person based on what we hold near and dear to our sleeping spaces!
Holigay Gift Guide: Planners for Your Most Organized Decade Yet
Planners can be so many things: super structured, super loose, artistic or woo-woo or politically radical or conservatively minimalist. Here are some options to start with for yourself or a loved one!
A New Year’s Tarot Spread: How Far You’ve Come, What Lies Ahead
Rather than seeing the cards in this simple spread as predictive, by leaving them open to interpretation and revisiting them throughout the year, we create space for these ideas to expand and build upon each other, allowing for growth, new perspectives, and the shifts that 2020 may bring.
Three Mocktails for Your Holigay Reunion of Exes
So you’ve invited three of your exes and each of their respective partners/polycules over for holiday dinner. It’s a potluck, so food is taken care of, but what will you drink!? These delicious mocktails, of course.
How to Have Phone Sex: A Detailed Guide
Here’s a very thorough how to guide for approaching phone sex, from a chatty Capricorn slut whose greatest (PG-13) talent in life is never shutting up.
Lez Liberty Lit: The Word of the Year
“They” is the word of the year! Plus: when languages die, when bookstores unionize, when Hilton Als writes on Joan Didion and more.
What We Love and Hate About Dating Scorpios
“As a Scorpio that has dated other Scorpios, I can state definitively that we are excellent at sex and secrets and not always great at other parts of relationships.”
Pop Culture Fix: Hallmark Accidentally Started a Lesbian Christmas Movie Avalanche
That Hallmark debacle made for some good tweets and content, Mia Kirshner says Jenny Schecter’s not dead (but there’s a podcast you need to listen to if you want to know more), return dates for Sabrina and Grace & Frankie, Disney+’s new Star Wars series will reportedly have a lesbian character, and more!
Summer of 1990
I remember it all because for that one hour of that one day in that horribly long summer, I could see part of myself reflected in someone else and I felt less alone.
Christmas at the Coterie: “Good Trouble” Celebrates the Holigays with Stef and Lena
While the return of Stef and Lena Adams Foster to our TV screens was always going to be a cause for celebration around here, their presence — and the presence of six (!!) other LGBT characters — on Good Trouble’s two hour holiday special seemed particularly poignant in the wake of Hallmark’s bigotry.
Queer Your Ears: The 50 Best Albums Of The 2010s By Queer & Trans Musicians
The 2010s was an incredibly gay decade in music. Queer and trans musicians gained more visibility and success than ever before over the last 10 years! Here are the best 50 albums of the decade, according to me.
Welcome Our New Autostraddle Deputy Editor, Kamala Puligandla!
I just want a gay utopia, okay?
Foolish Child #61: Cousin Penny
Oh boy!
No Filter: Bella Thorne Knows Her Boobs are Big, Thanks!
Janelle Monáe loves being black, Cara Delevingne loves “flowers” and Amber Heard and I take a new, startling turn together!
Queered & Careered: 5 Ways You Can Use Tarot at Work
Just because, let’s be honest: your workplace could use some queer witchy energy.