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‘I Feel Incredibly Bad and Guilty After Masturbating’

Feeling bad about masturbation is a remarkably normal thing, especially for people who were immersed (drowned) in shame from the…

Summer Tao

Aug 5, 2025

Both/And, Extinction Capital of the World, and The Midnight Shift

BOOK LISTS

Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for August 2025

There’s a lot of new hot queer horror headed your way this August. Plus, more…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Aug 5, 2025

POP CULTURE FIX

Help I Can’t Stop Watching Clips of Cynthia Erivo as Black Lesbian Jesus

Cynthia Erivo was Jesus and Phillipa Soo sang her love songs at the Hollywood Bowl…

Valerie Anne

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Aug 4, 2025

BOOK FEATURES

78 Years Of Lesbian Magazines Keeping Our Queer Legacy Alive

The desire to connect with other people like us has been the driving force of…

Riese

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Aug 4, 2025

book lists

Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for August 2025

There’s a lot of new hot queer horror headed your way this August. Plus, more LGBTQ+ lit across all genres!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Aug 5, 2025

pop culture fix

Help I Can’t Stop Watching Clips of Cynthia Erivo as Black Lesbian Jesus

Cynthia Erivo was Jesus and Phillipa Soo sang her love songs at the Hollywood Bowl this weekend! Plus, more buried and unburied gays on TV, Doechii announces upcoming tour, Jinkx…

Valerie Anne —

Aug 4, 2025

book features

78 Years Of Lesbian Magazines Keeping Our Queer Legacy Alive

The desire to connect with other people like us has been the driving force of queer media since the first lesbian print magazine ever launched in 1947. Here are just…

Riese —

Aug 4, 2025

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78 Years Of Lesbian Magazines Keeping Our Queer Legacy Alive

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How To Choose Between Two Paths Using the Tarot

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Aug 4, 2025

link roundup

NSFW

nsfw sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is a Rupture

You will never get closure, how to relearn how to masturbate as a trans women, golden showers and more.

Ryan Yates —

Mar 10, 2019

be the change

Lists/Top 10s

politics + activism

Be The Change: 5 Ways to Create Safer Activist Spaces For Everyone

We have to commit to always learning and growing and doing more all the time to make our spaces better and better.

KaeLyn —

Mar 9, 2019

Cameron

Saturday Morning Cartoons

webcomics

Some Things: Gender/Language Barrier

…the word for she/he/it are WRITTEN differently but PRONOUNCED the same.

Cameron —

Mar 9, 2019

community

Are You 10 Years Ago

“everywhere i went i was protected. i was never in the dark. i was alone but i was never really alone because autostraddle was there.”

Emily —

Mar 8, 2019

all-american

boobs on your tube

tv show recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: Nomi Feels the Carmen de la Pica Morales Sting on “Grown-Ish”

Plus updates on Charmed, All American, Roswell, Boomerang, The Magicians, and Whiskey Cavalier!

The TV Team —

Mar 8, 2019

hey did you see that comment friday

straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Making Bisque and Bingeing Derry Girls

“Thank you for blessing us with the phrase ‘kitchen top,’ because I think that’s my actual alignment.”

Darcy —

Mar 8, 2019

autostraddle birthday

the birthday issue

issues

Happy Birthday Autostraddle: 10th Birthday Cards and Love Notes from YOU

Not only did you send cards and love notes, you also sent us homemade vegan cookies, cash donations, and a fucking handmade seahorse enamel charm?!?!?!

Vanessa —

Mar 8, 2019

captain marvel

MCU Marvel Cinematic Universe

movie reviews

“Captain Marvel” Is More Kickass Than Our Wildest Dreams

If I were a man invested, even subconsciously, in propping up a patriarchal society where women, even subconsciously, Know Their Place, Captain Marvel would terrify the pants off of me.

Heather Hogan —

Mar 8, 2019