The Top 10 Queer and Feminist Books of 2017
2017 has been pretty awesome for a ton of new queer and/or feminist things to read! Here are some of the best.
7 Stylish Queers Share Their Short Hair Secrets
Whether you just got a short haircut, you’ve had one for many years, or you’re thinking about a change, this post might help you make sense of your mane.
Sunday Funday is Getting Hitched in Australia
Sister Rosetta Tharpe inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Billie Jean King paved the way for openly gay tennis players, lesbian couples getting married in Australia, Alexandra Chandler would be first trans woman in Congress, Rosa Diaz: Bisexual Avenger, and a cute otter!
Holiday Gift Guide: For the Queers in the Kitchen
It would be the sweetest thing to gift your culinarily skilled loved ones with new swag for their kitchen.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Into Small Fierce Moments
Love as a series of small moments, how to be a better listener, why couples use babytalk, dating someone with sexual trauma and more.
Y’All Need Help #16: You Can Do Things About You!
Being miserable at your 9-5 job, your family isn’t wild about your fiancee and you’re embarrassed to get married, you’re not wild about your current roommate, and people think you might be related to your gal BUT YOU’RE NOT. Come on in!
Grease Bats: Holigay Obligations
“You know what I’m doing for the holigays? Absolutely NOTHING that I feel obligated to do!”
Holigay Gift Guide: New Year, New You!
Two Things: First, I want nothing more than for you and your loved ones to start off 2018 being your best selves. Second, I checked this list. I checked it twice. Everything on it can still be delivered by December 25th (in case you are as much of a procrastinator as I am. No judgement! 2017 was hard, after all.)
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Happy Holigay Meet-up Season!
Welcome to our virtual Autostraddle Holigay Meet-Up — I brought Nutella stuffed brown butter salted chocolate chip cookies!
The Comment Awards Are Eating Creamed Spinach in Waterloo
Milk is not a sexy beverage.
S.H.E. Episode XI: A Working Day
“Look, this isn’t rocket science.”
Fuel For Your Fire: LGBTIQ Activists From Around the World Share Their Stories
LGBTIQ+ activists from around the world gathered to discuss the challenges and the solutions from the front lines around the world at OutSummit.
A Day in the Life: Anita Dolce Vita of dapperQ
A day in the life of LGBTQ fashion/lifestyle/activist staple Anita Dolce Vita, who does more in a day than you would have thought possible.
The Top 11 Gayest Christmas Songs
Ring-a-ling-a-ling-a-#dingdong-ding!
Brandi Seals Is the 28th Trans Person Murdered in 2017
Seals’ family called the 28-year-old Houston native a beautiful and loving person.
“You Should Stay Inside”: Environmental Racism and Marginalized Health in Our Gayborhoods
How the atmosphere is changing, literally and figuratively, in dangerous ways in Seattle’s historically LGBTQ Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Style Thief: How to Dress Like Riverdale’s Firey Maple Goddess Cheryl Blossom
Go forth and wreak havoc, my lil vixens!
You Need Help: What Should You Do With Your One Wild and Precious Life?
Queer time moves differently than regular time; we’re on our own schedule; we exist outside the rigidity of the patriarchal space-time continuum.
8 Soft Femme Memoirs for Your Femme But Not Too Femmey Needs
The following eight memoirs, which deal with gender, food, writing, relationships and more, reflect soft femmes, tomboy femmes, chapstick femmes, and other femmes who aren’t all that femmey.
Pop Culture Fix: America Chavez Is Coming To Your TV and “One Day at a Time” Will Be Back Before You Know It
Plus a very wacky and exciting-sounding Harley & Ivy & Betty & Veronica crossover; PB and Marceline holding hands; a first look at Lena Waithe on Dear White People; and people won’t stop asking Kristen Stewart about that Charlie’s Angels reboot.