We are celebrating all things food today, in the form of an Ask Me Anything for our A+ subscribers! Come hang out with us and learn how to roast a turkey, turn your stuffing into edibles, and perhaps even a brownie for dessert?
Queer as in F*ck You
26 Adorable Queer and Lesbian Celebs and Their Pets
“(The judge) found a way to use existing laws to give us the first birth certificate of its kind.” This Throuple Made History With Their First Child. Here’s What Their Lives Are Like.
Why is our impulse to only use “he” pronouns for Elliot Page? Give Elliot Page — and All of Us — the Rightful “They”
Who James Baldwin Knew. A gorgeous piece from the NYT about Baldwin and his relationships with ng Lorraine Hansberry, Toni Morrison, Miles Davis and others. (You know what else this reminds me of? Not to toot my own horn, but one of my favorite pieces I wrote this year, for this very website you are reading right now: “The desire to find footprints of something gay and happy and Black to write about led me back to Lorraine Hansberry and James Baldwin. Two Black queer writers whose friendship and intellectual partnership have become a myth of its own right.”)
🚨 New short fiction from Autostraddle’s own Kayla Kumari Upadhaya in Catapult, featuring a cute baby, a barbecue, some hot mommi action and a series of unfortunate events! 🚨 (KAYLA WE ARE ALL SO PROUD OF YOU!! CONGRATS!!💋): Olive Olivia Olive Olive
Saw This, Thought of You
The Year We Lost. When we look back on 2020, will we see past all the things that didn’t happen?
The fathers and father figures of Michael Brown, Terence Crutcher, Daniel Prude, Rayshard Brooks, George Floyd, and Jacob Blake to reflect on the violence that forever altered their families’ lives — and what it means to raise a Black man in America: Visible Men, Black Fathers Talk About Losing Sons to Police Brutality
Over at Vulture, Rachel Handler is celebrating “Nancy Meyers Week” and honestly, it’s perfect?
- A Chaotic Taxonomy of the Nancy Meyers Cinematic Universe
- A Kooky Conversation With Nancy Meyers Muse Diane Keaton
- Let Nancy Meyers Inspire You to Self-Quarantine
- And the interview with the defining genius of oversized kitchens and chunky knit off-white sweaters herself, Nancy Meyers Searches for Her Own Comfort
This has left everyone on the Autostraddle team ENRAGED AND FOR GOOD DAMN REASON: A New York City Paramedic Was Doxxed For Being On OnlyFans. The Real Scandal Is Not Her Sex Work
Political Snacks
A story in two parts:
First, Hawaii Representative and former Presidential hopeful (and, I’m sorry but this is my column so I will just say it — I hate her) Tulsi Gabbard introduced a bill called ‘Protect Women’s Sports Act,’ that’s a cute name for a very transphobic piece of bigotry trying to pass itself off as law.
WELL! Then Minnesota Representative Angie Craig has this to say about it:
My statement on Rep. Gabbard's hateful piece of legislation: pic.twitter.com/hUNh3fIZws
— Angie Craig (@RepAngieCraig) December 12, 2020
(No way this piece of legislature goes anywhere, right? If that changes, I will be sure to let you all know.)
Joe Biden Has Reportedly Picked Pete Buttigieg to Be Transportation Secretary
And finally — a reminder note from our A+ Director, Nicole:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIv2U1ABp5b/?igshid=1sqhm8lrc71hy
