Baopu #56: Best Friends
What do best friends do together?
Boobs on Your Tube: “Charmed” Gets Real With Its Witchy Lesbian Lovebirds
Plus: Gal pals smooching on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, near queer makeouts on Siren, soft butches in space, Chelsea Handler channeling Bette Porter, and a very sad Shondaland elevator.
Things I Read That I Love #282: A Couple of Misfit Queer Kids in Matching Black Leather Biker Jackets
Topics include Bryan Singer, toxic YA twitter, Chirstopher Pike, the tell-tale fan, Oscars for racial reconciliation fantasies, sexual assault as male bonding, Lil Tay, Soundcloud rap, sunscreen and more!
Black Queer Resiliency Will Guide Us Through Black History Month
“I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.” – Audre Lorde
The Comment Awards Are Crushing On Carmen SanDiego
“I’ve had a crush on Carmen SanDiego’s femme badassery since before I knew what crushes were, and long before I knew I could have them on women.”
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: I Came Out in a Minivan on the Way to New York, How About You?
Sometimes when we come out, especially after that first time…it’s kind of hilarious.
Queer Horoscopes for February 2019: Time to Get Romantic with Yourself
February can really hurt. It’s a time when we all need a little extra love. Luckily for all of us lucky queers, we’ve got each other.
What If This Was a Celebration
“I knew if I could exert most of my energy in the painful icy parts of life, I could certainly make my way back to celebrating the good.”
Getting in Bed With Kristin: Religion & Queerness, Slowly Transitioning, and a New Kitten!
Get in here and get the goods on Kristin’s revamped series! (Get it? Vamped? Like Buffy the Vampi—oh, just get in here.)
The Birthday Issue: Letter From Your Editor
“Autostraddle is more like a guinea pig than like a human child, both for our experimental nature and for how long we were expected to live.”
Introducing Camp Autostraddle XI
Join Roxane Gay, Be Steadwell, Nia & Ness, Gaby Dunn, Brittani Nichols and 400 LGBTQ women, non-binary people and other trans folks for five days of fun fun fun in Ojai, California!
Send Autostraddle a Birthday Card, Because We’re Turning 10!
In honor of our 10th birthday, our Birthday Issue, and your senior editors’ intrepid love for all things DIY and tangible in a world determined to go all digital, we invite you to send Autostraddle a physical birthday card to celebrate our big day.
Sharing Is Caring: 10 Sex Toys Perfect for Couples This Valentine’s Day
Although you can have fun getting busy with a partner with any kind of toy you’re into, these toys designed specifically with couples in mind can leave you and your cutie feeling more satisfied than a Domino’s heart-shaped pizza this Valentine’s Day.
“The L Word” Reboot Is Really, Actually Happening This Very Year
Bette, Shane, and Alice — at the very least — will be back in the eight-episode new season that will land on Showtime some time in 2019.
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 53, January 2019
“It’s been so long since I watched a lighthearted dramedy not set in the UK that I’ve forgotten the American way to pronounce condom.”
“Riverdale” Recap Episode 311: Sorry, I’m Actually Just Going to Shout About Cheryl and Toni
When was the last time the two queer women of Riverdale got any semblance of character development?
Lez Liberty Lit: Imagining a Safer Future
Still mourning Mary Oliver. Plus why “books” are not a personality, the mood of reading, feminist bookstores to support right now and more.
Queer Girl City Guide: Houston
Everything’s bigger in Texas.
“Black Lightning” Episode 211 Recap: Sweet, Sweet Forehead Kisses
Grace Choi is back! And she brought kisses and French fries!
“Good Trouble” Episode 104 Recap: Playing the Game
Callie learns another secret she’s gotta keep, Mariana learns another hard lesson about being a young Latina in a dudebro industry, and Alice learns she’s got to re-learn how to say no.