“Legends of Tomorrow” Episode 405 Recap: Thanksgiving Chaos
Sara, Zari and Charlie go to Tokyo to stop a monster from destroying the city while Ava gets her first dose of Thanksgiving chaos.
A+ Sex Diary: Fucking an Ex and Feeling Myself
Welcome to A+ Sex Diaries, an A+ feature in which we publish seven days in our sex lives. This week: a mid-twenties femme juggling multiple long-distance relationships hooks up with her ex.
Find Your Fit: The Former Pinup Moving to Minimalism
“I want to be SEEN by that hot dyke in the bus, ya know? And also to feel at home in this fat, queer body that I haven’t felt good about for too long and that I love now but don’t know how to show off?”
Five Steamy Lesbian Reads for the Holidays
Are they literary heavy hitters for which you’ll need a thesaurus and previous experience reading Nietzsche? No! Are they fun romps through a winter wonderland with queer characters? Yes! Are said characters often trapped in places and hate each other at first but then fall in love and there’s really no risk except that which makes the love even more defined? Yes!
How to Have Lesbian Sex While You’re Home for the Holidays
What’s a queer to do when you’re looking for a holiday hookup? Or have a partner you’d like to make hot sensual holiday love with? Get creative!
“They Want Trans Shit to Be a PSA”: A Trans Woman Writers’ Roundtable
“I was going to do a story about trans women arming themselves? And all the edits we got back were like, ‘Can your characters look directly at the reader and quote trans murder statistics from last year?'”
Take Autostraddle’s Very Exciting LGBTQ+ Travel Survey!
If you’ve got 15-20 minutes to tell me how and why you travel and where you go and what you do there and how you feel about it on a few different levels, it would be so great. Note: this is not the same travel survey we told you about last week!
Please Welcome Our New Autostraddle Associate Editor, Dr. Carmen Phillips!
It’s Carmen’s first full day as your new Associate Editor! She didn’t want it to end without saying Hi to all of you!
“Widows” Review: Viola Davis Kicks Ass, Takes Back What the Patriarchy Stole
These women aren’t ultimately just stealing the money. They’re stealing back the ability to control their own lives. To get in at least one solid kick against the rancid, putrid system that forced their backs against the wall in the first place.
“Supergirl” Episode 406 Recap: The Thanksgiving Debate
Happy Thanksgiving from Team Super! Alex, Kara, Lena, and Nia gather around and debate politics, as is the Thanksgiving tradition.
Host A Cozy Holigay Meet-Up, Meet Straddlers, Spread Cheer!
If you want to host a Cozy Holigay Meet-Up, here’s what to do.
Bearing Life With and Alongside: On Masculinity, Pregnancy, and Medical Trauma
I hadn’t experienced transphobic violence in medicalized form before. But I’d experienced it in many others: in punches and pushes, through threats with weapons, or by being run off the road by cars while I was on foot.
Monday Roundtable: The First Queer People Who Pinged Our Gaydars With Their Style
“I’d actually never even seen a woman in a blazer before. Like a men’s cut blazer. It really was like Fun Home. Inside I really did feel like I KNOW YOU!”
Sunday Funday is Sneaking Out With Michelle Obama to Rally Around the Gays
Michelle Obama’s a true ally, Sue Bird’s joining the NBA, Brandi Carlile learns that Pluto isn’t a planet anymore, a rap for RBG and more!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Into Pubic Hair
This week, the internet got obsessed with pubic hair. Also: how to be more dominant in bed, sexts to send when you’re out of ideas, the hot new trend of later-in-life lesbianism and more.
Be The Change: Battling Activist Burnout
“I share all this because I feel like everyone I know is struggling to keep it together lately, to have-it-all or to be-everything-to-everyone or to fight-the-good-fight.”
Some Things: Backwards Meditation
Shhhhsh-sh-sh. I have one minute left.
Boobs on Your Tube: “All American” Just Keeps Getting Its Lesbian Story Right
All American tackles internalized homphobia, Charmed gives Mel a devastating choice, Eleanor Shellstrop is horny even when she’s getting dragged into hell, AU! Charlie returns to Supernatural, Beth and Valencia are leaving Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and more!
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Let’s Make a Fall TV Progress Report Together!
Let’s have a check in about fall TV!
KaeLyn Rich’s “Girls Resist!” Is a Guidebook for Intersectional Feminist Superheroes
“It’s the urgency of being a girl, in the broadest sense of that admittedly binary term, of being a marginalized person and knowing in your heart that you have the power to change your world.”