First Person

For Your Consideration: Drinking Just Way Too Much Tea

How many cups of tea does it take to get to the center of what’s really wrong? A lot.

Sex Toys

Toys Are for Us: How to Start Using Sex Toys with a Partner

There’s a million reasons to use sex toys with a partner — variety! Adding a new sensation! Creating a different type of intimacy! Acting out a scene you’ve always fantasized about! Curiosity! Adventure! Fun! Accessibility! Playing with a new part of the body! Toys can help you orgasm! Here’s how to get started.

Parenting & Family

“Just Treat Me Like Any Other Mother”: What Queer-Affirming Doulas Can Provide New LGBT Parents

For queer couples already facing marginalization in their lives and relationship before making the decision to become pregnant, the presence of a doula can be profound.

TV Lists

Winter 2019 TV Preview: All The Lesbian, Queer and Bisexual TV Coming Your Way

All the premiere dates and sneak peeks at new and returning television shows with lesbian, bisexual or queer women characters coming January, February and March 2019 to a shiny box near you.

TV News & Trailers

2019 Golden Globes Winners: Sandra Oh and Queer Red Carpet Looks

“I said yes to the fear of being on this stage tonight because I wanted to be here, to look out onto this audience and witness this moment of change.”

Health

Monday Roundtable: Change Is Good

The first month of the year doesn’t have to be about making big changes, but for a lot of people, it is. In that spirit, here’s the Autostraddle team sharing with you the things they’ve changed in their lives that has meant the biggest improvement.

TV Reviews

“Marvel’s Runaways” Gets Gayer, Better, and Flashier in Season 2

The hot evil parents get hotter and eviler!

Society + Culture

Sunday Funday Is Here, Queer, Femme, and Swearing In

Happy first Sunday of 2019!!! We made it bitches! I’m so happy to be here, in the future with you. Okay, let’s get some good news in our bellies this morning.

NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Cruising

Cruising for lesbian hookups, women’s sexual expressions through technology, radical experimental queer porn, deepfakes and more.

Recipes

Femme Brûlée: Eggnog Cinnamon Rolls

I love eggnog, so I’ve taken it upon myself to write a recipe that I think even its most loyal haters will love. There’s no drinking the eggnog here, just using it to infuse the dough and glaze with warm winter spices and vanilla. The brown butter doesn’t hurt either.

Webcomics

Baopu #55: Soft Heart

All my life I’ve tried to be impervious, but I am soft.

Literature

Things I Read That I Love #280: Falling In Love With Her Was Like Falling In Love With a Character I’d Written

Topics include The Apprentice, emotional abuse, the year in dog, HIV/AIDS, really gross murder, bad faith reading, Sheryl Sandberg, Elizabeth Warren, and so much more!

Straddleverse

The Comment Awards are Cheering for You in this Brand New Year

“Gay cheerleader of the cosmos, guess I found my desired position for future job applications.”

Straddleverse

FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Which Fictional Character’s Energy Are You Channeling in 2019?

Happy New Year, my friends, and welcome to the first FRIDAY OPEN THREAD of 20biteen!

Health Money + Work

Do the Damn Thing, Part 3: Fail and Refocus

You’ve done it. You’ve crafted long term and short term goals, made an action plan, set reasonable expectations, nurtured the skills that empower you to focus — and now you’ve failed. Welcome to being a human on this earth!

LGBT Book Reviews

“The Lesbian South” Carries Lesbian History, Ideology and Gossip into the Present

Along with the Civil Rights Movement, the blues, and the Moon Pie, we also have the American South to thank for a 50-plus year bounty of lesbian literature.

Straddleverse

Call For Submissions: The Birthday Issue

Autostraddle turns ten in 2019 and in that spirit, the first theme issue of the year is BIRTHDAY. This can mean so many things! Pop in to find out more!