Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for March 2018
This month brings Venus — planet of “hmm, maybe it would be nice to touch another human…” — into Aries, sign of “I’m going to explode if we don’t do this right now!”
“Black Lightning” Episode 106 Recap: Superheroes Run in the Family
Of all the ways that the Pierce’s mutual secret-identity reveal was going to come about, I definitely never expected a raw knuckle superhero fight.
Pop Culture Fix: Gina Rodriguez Is Playing Stephanie Beatriz’s Girlfriend on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, THIS IS NOT A DRILL
Also: a 9 to 5 reboot with Lily and Jane and Dolly? Paramount puts a pin in Heathers, Evan Rachel Wood’s new queer movie trailer is here, Vulture wonders about the bisexual boom on TV, and more!
Mal Ortberg’s Creepy New Book Is Coming Out and Mal Is Too
If The Merry Spinster seems almost fixated on gender, it’s because Ortberg began participating in gender therapy and exploring identity while writing it, and “It turns out I’m trans!”
Georgia Is Back on Its Religious Freedom Bullshit, Goes After LGBTQ Adoption
Last Friday the Georgia state senate passed a bill that will allow state-funded adoption agencies to refuse to place children with parents they disapprove of because of their religious beliefs.
“Good Girls” Is Made for This #MeToo Moment
Good Girls tries to do a little too much right out of the gate, but thankfully one of those things is capturing the spirit of the Women’s March and the female-driven resistance.
You Need Help: You’re in Love with a Straight Girl and You Want It to Stop
Take a deep breath. You can get through this.
No Filter: Kehlani Is Having a Love Affair with This Orange Slushie
Also, Janelle Monáe is taking over the world and the cast of Orange Is The New Black are ruining your photo shoot.
Second Circuit Courts Rule Title VII Includes Protections for LGB Employees, Trump and Sessions Be Damned
Although the Trump administration is still insisting that Title VII’s prohibition on sex discrimination in the workplace doesn’t apply to LGBT people, the Second Circuit just ruled that it should and does apply to sexual orientation.
My Old Elementary School Is a Toxic Waste Site and Other Environmental Nightmares
“Environmental problems are hitting Black neighborhoods particularly hard, but going unresolved because Black lives are deemed less valuable than others. A lot of us are being left in the dark about harm being done to our environment.”
Is Oscar-Nominated “Revolting Rhymes” Secretly a Lesbian Love Story About Snow White and Little Red Riding Hood?
The subtext is so discernible we have a hard time believing it’s unintentional.
Drawn to Comics: “Bingo Love” Is a Black Queer Romance That Lasts a Lifetime and Will Make Yours Better
Everyone who’s been clamoring for a romance comic about queer Black women written by a Black woman and with art by women has gotten exactly what they want with “Bingo Love.”
How to Write a Non-Monogamous Dating Profile
Here’s how to fly your consensually non-monogamous, polyamorous, consensually open relationship or whatever else flag in your dating profile so you get the best possible interactions from it.
I Built a Lesbian Sex Robot
It did not go well.
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 43, February 2018
“ok who sent me an autostraddle email address request for kristen stewart”
“Annihilation” Review: Gina Rodriguez Steals the Show as a Soft Butch Lesbian
Gina Rodriguez is a certified action star!
Desiree Akhavan on Sex Scenes, Spectatorship, and Shooting ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’: The Autostraddle Interview
Behind every great indie film is a great woman. Or, as “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” shows, an entourage of them. Autostraddle spoke with director Desiree Akhavan about making the film that won the Sundance 2018 Grand Jury Prize for Drama and got gay teens in Montana on screen.
Monday Roundtable: How Do We Live with Ourselves?
Everyone has some things that make them hard to live with — like, literally, like in the same apartment as them. Here are ours.
Sunday Funday Is Beat For the Gods With Laverne Cox
Laverne Cox’s music video Beat To The Gods, LGBTQ athletes winning at the Olympics, Daniela Vega is the first openly trans presenter at the Oscars, gender-inclusive makeup launch, Pulse survivors join gun control activism, and tear-jerking photos of Black kids watching Black Panther that will probably destroy you in a good way.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Knows How To Muff
The dating apps working to create safer experiences for people of color and queer and trans people, how to muff, how to have boundaries and more.