How do you build chosen family? Should you consider pursuing romantic connection when your friends have become more distant? And do we have ideas for your anniversary celebration? (We do!)
The term pillow princess has its roots in 90s lesbian circles.
We’ve got the details on how you can get 30% off everything in the Autostraddle store from today through Monday!
50% off is kind of a lot!
Why didn’t the sun go to grad school?
As the national and international conversations on colonialism, imperialism, and decolonization progress and spread, I think it’s important for us to continue reflecting on the big and small ways Indigenous groups in the U.S. and abroad have challenged and fought against the occupying, colonialist, imperialist forces that have attempted to wipe those groups off the map entirely.
Our dissent is a heavyweight. But empire cannot be built if we know that.
My father hates Thanksgiving.
Prime Video cancels three TV shows that center queer characters, Reneé Rapp discusses Justin Bieber’s former lesbian look, Sarah Paulson gushes over Holland Taylor, Kristen Stewart kinda crashed Robert Pattinson’s birthdy party, and more!
“You, as a trans person, might watch Mutt and see that it is balanced and sweet. A lot of people who aren’t trans think I’m putting my character through a lot.”
Niecy Nash provides my moodboard for Thanksgiving, channeling Auntie all the way!
Want to hear a sodium joke?
Queer Palestinian American author Zaina Arafat pens essay on watching war on Instagram — plus, more links from the past week.
Trans people and medical professionals have a lot to learn from each other.
“Today I am 28. It is 2023. In Nigeria, it is illegal to do the things I did freely at the beaches in Toronto; watch my queer friends kiss under the eyes of a cloudy sun, hold hands with a woman on a rain-less night intoxicated by wine and wishfulness. I lie to a taxi driver, tell him that I have a fiancé. I show him a picture, a man. My cousin doesn’t know how often his image has saved me from lecherous men. Here, fiction can be a raft in a sea…”
There isn’t a secret formula for attracting others, but confidence does go a long way.
When my partner and I got together, one of the things I was most excited about were the matching family pajamas for Christmas we were going to get.
This could very well just be a classic make-your-ex-jealous IG lip sync.
“The Marvels” allegedly cut a scene that would’ve confirmed a past lesbian relationship between Captain Marvel and Valkyrie, Josie Totah on playing an 1800s lesbian in The Buccaneers, Hunter Schafer on her “Hunger Games” role and more!
It’s giving “Love and Basketball” with a passport!