October 2018 Queer Horoscopes: It’s Time to Reconsider Your Needs in Love
As Venus is the planet of relationships, what’s getting exposed this month is what we need to reexamine, reconfigure, and reestablish in our relationships.
Things I Read That I Love #273: Books In Which Measurable Cerebral Activity Is Virtually Absent.
Topics include Hello Kitty, female TV detectives, sexual assault, Maya Rudolph, Puerto Rico becoming a tax haven for the rich, obesity, parties in the 80s, and more!
Monday Roundtable: Our Favorite LGBTQ Historical Figures
It’s LGBTQ History Month, and not a moment too soon! It’s absolutely necessary at this moment in time to remember some of the icons of our collective queer past who have overcome all kinds of adversity to change the world and our individual lives.
We Could Be Heroes
Malinda Lo’s all-new short story about an inauguration protest that’s interrupted by an alien invasion is available exclusively on Autostraddle dot com!
16 Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Instagram Accounts to Introduce You to Our Herstory
I want to devour everything that came before us so we can continue to grow better, brighter, louder, closer. These Instagram accounts are a great place to start.
Sunday Funday and Keira Knightley Want a Lesbian “Bend It Like Beckham” Sequel
Plus: Adorable lions and cows and misandry! And: Good equality news from India and Romania!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is A Dominatrix Vampire Bitch
How to be good at sex. Plus what it’s like wearing latex, what it’s like being a unicorn, cuffing season by astrological sign, the feminist history of nudes in nature and more.
Baopu #51: Family Reunion
How do you say what’s unsaid every time you see your family?
Femme Brûlée: Mini Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Cinnamon Frosting
Have you ever wanted a little chocolate cake? Like a literal mini cake that’s perfect for two and an easy dessert to whip up for dinner with a friend or cutie?
How We Survive This Together
Let’s make radically caring space for each other, OK? Here are some tips and tricks for grounding ourselves and taking care of our communities in times of collective trauma like RIGHT DAMN NOW.
Boobs on Your Tube: “Grey’s Anatomy” Returns With Three Entire Queer Women
Also: Viola Davis in leather pants, more queer action on The Purge, Viola Davis in leather pants, updates on 9-1-1 and Killjoys and all your favorite daytime TV, and Viola Davis in leather pants!
It Sure Has Been a Week!: A Feelings Atrium
It’s been a rough fucking week! Come hang out in here with the rest of us who feel like we’ve aged 25 years in seven days if you need it.
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 49, September 2018
“also can you truly — in your true heart — think of a better headline than “i put a sheet mask on my cunt””
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: What Do You Daydream to Distract Yourself?
In your heart of hearts, what does your dream home look like? Where is it? What makes it feel like home? Tell me everything!
Getting in Bed With Kristin + Heather Hogan: Buffy, Cats and Jesus
This week Kristin got in bed with Autostraddle senior editor Heather Hogan to talk about queer representation on teevee, spirituality vs. religion and, of course, cats. (And beer.)
The Comment Awards Are Side-Eyeing a Diva Cup
“Can we all just take a moment to appreciate the phrase ‘menstrual confetti?'”
You Need Help: Three Classic Bisexual Questions, Now with Bisexual Answers
Today we look at a panoply of questions, which, while the situations of their querents are specific and concrete, encompass three of the most common questions we hear in relation to bisexuality: Am I actually bisexual or not? Am I pansexual or something else within the bi+ spectrum? How the fuck do I let people know I’m not straight?
10 Favorite Books by Bisexual Women to Read For Bisexual Awareness Week
Spanning genre from fiction to essays to memoir, these books are vibrant, boundary-breaking, and as intriguing as they are affirming. I strongly recommend curling up with one of these in your favorite café to celebrate Bisexual Visiblility Day today and all this week — settle in for some miso soup (what Ruby, the heroine of Eating Chinese Food Naked, drinks as comfort food) with maybe some biryani and chai for the second course (from Corona, by Bushra Rehman) and read some of these literary works.
Why Did You Betray Your Own Heart, Cathy?
“Last week I found one of those butter-coloured strands on my dress, and wondered. Then I realised it was one of my own, greying hairs. Ten years have passed, and she’s straight now, living with the boyfriend I introduced her to nine and a half years ago.”
Queer Women Very Much Not Fans of Christianity
The data from our Lesbian Stereotypes Survey shows LGBTQ women and non-binary people have fled Christianity in droves — we actually have more Pagans than Catholics.