Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for May 2018
Uranus moves into Taurus this month—Uranus likes to stir things up and Taurus hates change. What will this mean for our sweet, queer love lives?
The 5 Cookbooks by Women I Couldn’t Live Without
These are full of scribbled notes, neon “make me next” tabs, oil drips, crinkled pages and most of all, recipes that I adore. They’ve brought immense amounts of joy into my life by way of conversations over dinner and memories made while cooking with people I love, and they all contribute to making me a better, happier cook day by day.
Trivial Cahoots: Sex Toy History Trivia Quiz
How old is the oldest dildo? Where did sex toy colors come from? What sex shop originally just sold waterbeds and moodlights? Test your sex toy history knowledge right here!
How to Make a Meme: A Tutorial With Instagram Lesbian Superstar @xenaworrierprincess
Maddy Court, the creator behind Instagram lesbian meme sensation @xenaworrierprincess, teaches us how to make a meme and shares her own meme origin story.
Vida’s Non-Binary Latinx Actor Ser Anzoategui Already Knows Their Show Will Be Your New Favorite
Vida’s out non-binary actor Ser Anzoategui gave Autostraddle an one-on-one interview about the show, the importance of queer Latinx representation in front of and behind the camera, and even sang a little Selena for the heck of it. You want this!
Monday Roundtable: These Are the LGBTQ Movies That Destroyed Us Emotionally
“I don’t know why I watched it, I guess maybe I wanted to get destroyed again and Netflix didn’t exist yet. I feel like my entire generation will never recover from this film.”
20 Recipes for Your All-Night Beltane Party
Beltane is the old Gaelic festival that heralds the beginning of Spring, a “thank fuck the ice is going to stop!” all-night party.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Knows Orgasm Can Be Elusive
What to do when you can’t come, how sex changes for trans women after transition; sex party stories, naked women in contemporary art, dental play and somatic writing and more.
Sunday Funday Is Watching “Dirty Computer” on Repeat on YouTube
Even more news about Janelle Monáe, Michelle Wolf came for Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Disney is celebrating Pride with rainbow ears, Jen Richards is headed to HBO and more!
Femme Brûlée: Buttermilk Pear Spice Muffins
Truly, if you’re not a morning person and/or are susceptible to hanger, I suggest you get on the muffin train.
Boob(s On Your) Tube: “Westworld” and “Into the Badlands” Return With Some of Your Favorite Murderous Women
Plus queer updates on: Imposters, Grey’s Anatomy, Siren, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Young and the Restless, and S.W.A.T.!
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: What Would Surprise Kid-You About Adult-You?
What would Kid You and Teenage You think about Current You?
The Comment Awards Are Having All the Feelings
“Can confirm that mixing fake blood for your girlfriend’s Carrie costume is queer culture.”
Janelle Monáe’s “Dirty Computer” Is Finally Here and Even Queerer Than We Imagined
Janelle Monáe made an album just for me and you, and it’s your solemn duty as a queer woman to go and listen to it right at this very second and share all your thoughts and emotions in the comments.
Things I Read That I Love #262: Blue Is In Fashion This Year
Topics include weight loss surgery, murder, writer’s block, algorithms for style, David Foster Wallace, The Grenfell Tower fire, how bad Troy sucks in “Reality Bites,” deaf culture and so much more!
You Need Help: You’re New to the Queer Dating Scene, Do You Need to Change Yourself?
One person is worried being femme and bi will stop her from dating. Another is worried being fat and having no experience will. Good news! None of that will stop you!
Celebrate Lesbian Visibility Day With This Lesbian Playlist, Lesbians
Spend your Lesbian Visibility Day with some tunes by lesbians who make music and also acknowledge themselves as lesbians!
Lesbian Visibility Day Roundtable: Carrying History, Worshipping Women, F*cking Up the Patriarchy
“For me, lesbian completely casts aside the idea of men. It puts me and the people I love ahead of the patriarchy. It relieves me of even pretending that I give a shit what any of them have ever thought. It thankfully gives me space to center women (and other people who aren’t men), which is all I’ve ever wanted to do.”
Laura Aguilar, Groundbreaking Lesbian Chicana Photographer, Dies at 58
Aguilar was a pioneer in sharing the faces and experiences of various Latina lesbians in the 90s, when there was very little representation. Aguilar’s art gives the marginalized and subcultures within subcultures — poor, fat, woman, lesbian, Latina — a place to be held and seen.
You Should Play “NieR: Automata” if You Like Hot Androids, Cute Robots, or Nude Somebodies
The combat has a frenetic arcade-iness that makes me a little giddy even as I’m being chewed up by the robot dog that was for some reason built under the metallic skirts of the robot diva that was for some reason deemed an essential part of the robot invasion force.