Autostraddle March Madness — Best Coming Out: International
You have 48 hours to vote for your faves!
You have 48 hours to vote for your faves!
Plus updates on: The Good Fight, Grey’s Anatomy, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Will & Grace, Jane the Virgin, Legacies, Roswell, Riverdale and Now Apocalypse!
If you wanna be my lover…
Sex magick is using your orgasms to cast spells. I’m going to teach you how to do it.
And yes, it’s about exes who keep finding their way back into each other’s arms.
How did you realize and/or develop your relationship to your gender identity or gender presentation, if at all?
Topics include kayaking in Alaska, taking Amtrak across the U.S., Queer Teen Stars, Cathy, Lindy West, frequent flyer mile obsessives, calories, the professional poet and more!
Come bask in Kristin’s vacation energy and get some loving advice at the same time!
“Often we need the possibility of more not in order to reach it, but in order to stop just short of it, which is still far beyond where we would’ve landed had it not been there at all.”
Emily Dickinson sent her girlfriend, Nellie, her recipe for Black Cake that was so staggering (two pounds of flour, 19 eggs, etc) that it reads like one of her curiously queer poems. It seems impossible, but suggests the potential for a delicious celebration.
We’ve got a good mix of tunes here this month: some hip-hop and EDM if you’re ready to bounce off that winter chill, some intense vibes and chill folk if you still want to hibernate for a bit — and of course a bunch in between.
Barbara Hammer was the evidence that living a queer life could be good, and long, and full of wonder at a time when I felt like this was all was out of reach.
Getting real about the financial realities of writing, creative forces of subculture, K-pop, the branded ephemera of Frida Khalo, and shedding books to survive academia.
There’s nothing like a good old, grown up coming out story! You have 48 hours to vote for your favorites!
“It’s so important to tell stories about marginalized people, but if we tell stories that reduce them always and only to the ways they’re marginalized, it just perpetuates the problem.”
Also, KEHLANI FINALLY HAD HER BABY.
“Broken Arted” succeeds where other episodes of Good Trouble have faltered. It turns two of the show’s occasional weaknesses — the non-linear, overstuffed storytelling — into its strength and produces the best episode to date.
Plus: A remake of The Craft, time to get hyped for more Vida and Legends of Tomorrow, a Glee reunion, #Karmy, and more Marvel’s Runaways is on the way.
“You mean to tell me your regimen is dancing through the opening credits of One Day at a Time?”
Not only has Boomerang proven itself to be one of the most cutting edge black voices on television, it’s also invested in showcasing a full spectrum of young blackness, including sexuality.