“Black Lightning” Episode 213 Recap: Gone Girl
Grace Choi finally gets the backstory we’ve been waiting on for TWO YEARS. Trust me, you’re going to want a box of tissues for this one.
A Kind of Decolonization I Can Feel at the Back of My Pussy
On internal colonization, South Asian shame and representation of happy brown queers on film.
Stray City Is a Love Story about Friendship, Portland, and Chelsey Johnson’s Queer Community
If I could have willed a book into existence, that book would be Stray City — so I talked to Chelsey Johnson about her debut novel and what it’s like to render queer community so intimately for the public.
How To Grow Up Without Being Invited
The problem with birthdays, and graduations, is that endings and beginnings are so often the same thing. What we’re really celebrating is the motion, the opposite of stagnating, the skill of turning your head and blinking your eyes to see things in a new light, even if your feet and heart feel heavy and the landscape hasn’t changed.
Like a Little Act of Vengeance: F*cking While Fat
Fuck. While fat. Don’t wait.
One Day at a Time’s Season Three Is Its Funniest and Gayest Yet
This entire season is so gay its nearly unquantifiable.
69 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About “The L Word”
You’ve seen the show but do you really KNOW the show?
Monday Roundtable: Sign of the Times
Nothing stays the same forever, and that includes our bods; here’s the Autostraddle team talking about how they’ve noticed their bodies aging and what that’s like.
Janelle Monáe, Brandi Carlile, Lady Gaga and St. Vincent Gayed Up the 2019 Grammys
Plus a moving tribute to Dolly Parton performed, of course, by Dolly Parton.
Feelings, Rendered Material
I claimed to be a kid who “just loved birthdays,” when what I really loved was a socially sanctioned reason to shower my crushes with affection.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Delaying Orgasm
What to do if you want to orgasm less quickly, open your relationship, talk about and address vaginal pain and more.
Sunday Funday Is Glorifying One Day at a Time’s Latinx Supergroup
Plus: Janelle Monae opens up about being a black queer woman, Lena Waithe pens an op-ed in Time about Hollywood’s black renaissance, Sara Ramirez is going to bat for #20BiTeen on Twitter, Kristen Gillebrand is fighting for trans service members, Carol and Therese art for Valentine’s Day, and so much more!
Be The Change: We Like to Party! 5 Activist Ideas For Your Best Birthday Bash
Birthdays are the perfect time to ask people to take action. Why? People like you! They want to celebrate you! And on your birthday, they feel slightly more-obligated-than-usual to do what you ask of them!
Some Things: Indirect Success
Sometimes it’s hard to tell.
Boobs On Your Tube: Samira Wiley Shines as Bessie Coleman on “Drunk History”
Plus: All American continues to showcase some of the best queer storytelling on TV, HTGAWM threatens Tegan’s life, Tig Notatro: Space Butch is back on Star Trek, Siren is getting closer to gay mermaids, and Legacies unburies a gay.
Helen Keremos, Pulp Fiction’s First Dyke Detective, Is Getting Her Own Graphic Novel
The jeans, the belt, the button-up; her sunglasses, her hair, the way she leans. The dyke energy coming off her is unmistakable.
The Comment Awards Are Sleeping With Their Ex. Maybe. Possibly.
“Well, now I need ‘Consider disengaging if you’re processing more than you’re fucking’ embroidered on a pillowcase.”
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Has Your Diva Cup Ever Rolled Down The Aisle On A Bus Full Of People Or Was That Just Me?
I want to hear about an embarrassing moment in public you’ve had! And then I want to hear how you SURVIVED it!
Another Day in May
My grandparents and mother were crowded around my grandfather’s laptop; they had lit candles on a cake and sang happy birthday. I was about to make excuses to go back to studying when my grandmother mentioned the referendum. “You know, we’ll see your sister in a few weeks. She’s coming back for the vote.”
23 Black Queer and Trans Femmes to Follow on Instagram This Black History Month
Honey, these glorious embodiments of black femme magic are about to sweep you off your feet.