Topics include The National Enquirer, Anne Frank, Larry Nasser and USA gymnastics, how to save a life, our lives on a mattress, food writing, ballet, teen tv dramas and The Oregon Trail.
I lost 450 brain cells putting together this gorgeous post for you to enjoy great Black Friday deals so if you’re planning to shop online today, you should definitely read it. Also, we’ve got new Autostraddle merch!
Vete a la mierda Cristóbal Colón! It’s Thanksgiving weekend, and whether or not you “celebrate,” I wanna talk to you about traditions and reclaiming shitty things! Get in here!
The word of the year, the curiosity crisis in schools, the art of seeing, and more.
There’s an awful lot of awful things we could be thinking of, but for just one day let’s only think about love.
Hey, at least Almost-Dr. Anissa Pierce delivered some really cute babies!
Whether your person prefers quality time, physical touch, words of affirmation, receiving gifts, or acts of service, we’ve got some gift ideas for them!
Tig Notaro, Hannah Gadsby and Cameron Esposito dominate year-end stand-up specials lists, an interview with Noelle Stevenson about the new She-Ra, a lesbian in League of Legends, maybe that heartbreaking Charmed storyline won’t last, and more!
Also, Emily Hampshire and Teddy Geiger post some engagement shots and a few familiar faces launch their own season of the L Word.
“I shower. Get dressed. Read or listen to music until my hair is mostly dry and I can brush it. I don’t wear makeup and I don’t know how to do anything with my hair. No one wears the same size as me. I don’t know how to be a part of this ritual.”
Eleanor Roosevelt, Frida Kahlo, Naomi “Micky” Jacob, Elsie de Wolfe and Elisabeth Marbury — and their puppers!
Queer, bisexual and lesbian trans women exist and thrive and belong here.
Sara, Zari and Charlie go to Tokyo to stop a monster from destroying the city while Ava gets her first dose of Thanksgiving chaos.
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.
“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?”
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!
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!
“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?'”
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!
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!