Results for: be the change
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Reading Bisexual Women of YA: 10 Recommendations for Celebrate Bisexuality Month
Though there are still those who would keep bi characters off YA shelves, there are also plenty of fantastic young adult graphic novels, fantasy books, contemporary novels, and even nonfiction collections with bisexual characters that find their way into the hands of young readers and adults who appreciate YA. Here are a few essentials to check out during bisexual awareness month.
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 62, October 2019
“Queer culture is being stressed about the Supreme Court AND being stressed about your ex texting you to see how you’re feeling about the Supreme Court.”
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What Would the Decriminalization of Sex Work Look Like?
As Vermont became the second state to introduce a bill to decriminalize sex work, the real possibility of decrim future is on our horizon. But how would decrim take shape in the United States? Would the police still arrest sex workers? Will sex workers get labor rights? And what about human trafficking?
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Sunday Funday Balls Hard With the WNBA and 2K20
WNBA teams on 2K, #t4t Indian weddings, Roxane Gay on Toni Morrison, SISTASPIN and more! Happy Sunday!
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“The L Word: Generation Q” Episode 102 Recap: Less Is More
This episode has everything: pool sex, Olivia Thirlby, fun poppy lesbians, Jamie Clayton, the flu, Jillian Mercado, divorce papers, a gift card, an engagement party and a traditional lesbian building furniture with her bare hands!
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Queer Sex Coven: Protect Yourself From Homophobic Parents
Queers, allow me to introduce you to Saint Martha.
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 68, April 2020
“oh yeah we haven’t even scraped the surface of pandemic sex dreams”
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People Who Helped Me Come To My (Bi)sexual Awakening: A Short Thank You List
Being bisexual is lit.
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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday’s Dog Ate Her Sex Toys
Pets! Sometimes they eat your sex toys or underwear or bondage rope or whatever. Has this happened to you? Let’s discuss.
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How To Grow Up Without Being Invited
The problem with birthdays, and graduations, is that endings and beginnings are so often the same thing. What we’re really celebrating is the motion, the opposite of stagnating, the skill of turning your head and blinking your eyes to see things in a new light, even if your feet and heart feel heavy and the landscape hasn’t changed.
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“March Sisters” Celebrates “Little Women,” But Stops Short of Queerness
This essay collection is a warm and personal tribute to the title characters of Little Women, in honor of the classic’s 150th birthday. But it left much to be desired in the way of queer content.
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Meet Cutting Room Floor, Your New Favorite Self-Described Sad Gay Band
If you’re looking for Cutting Room Floor on social media, you’ll find them under the moniker “Sad Gay Band.” It’s sort of a joke, it’s also not an exaggeration – it might even be an understatement, both with regard to being gay and to being sad. Sink/Swim is their latest album, and it’s been over three years in the making.
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Sunday Funday Is Helping Tessa Thompson Teach Brie Larson How to Top
Dua Saleh with a new music video, a new Netflix food show with TWO queer women, twerking on Lizzo, Twitches, and more!
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25 Kickass Cosplays to Get You Hyped for “Batwoman”
Whether we do it to explore gender and gender presentation, to embrace our flamboyance, to show off and show out, or to just feel powerful, no con is complete these days without a horde of queer cosplayers or queer characters making their way up and down the aisles and across the stages
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The Comment Awards Are So Happy To See You!
“I’ve always found the word ‘spreadsheet’ low-key dirty sounding, because I’m an eternal twelve year-old.”
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“Supergirl” Episode 512 Recap: Compulsory Heterosexuality
Alex and Kara work to stop the Toyman once and for all while Lena continues working with her brother to figure out Non Nocere.
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L Word Generation Q Episode 101 Recap: Let’s Do Lesbians Again
It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for!
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Gey in Kikh: Seven Species Babka for Tu B’Shevat
Seven fruits and grains combine in a quick-rise babka to celebrate the Jewish New Year of the Trees.
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My Top 10 Television Shows: Carmen Phillips, Who Has Always Been Rooting For Everybody Black
“There isn’t a thing Friends did that Living Single didn’t do FIRST and with essentially 1/8th the budget. Tattoo it on my skin. I stand by it.”
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Holigay Gift Guide: For Dykes Who Love Their Bikes
From the moment I got the training wheels off my Strawberry Shortcake bicycle in kindergarten to the starter mountain bike I got for high school graduation to the first bike I bought with my very own money, nothing has ever made me as free as cycling.