Results for: be the change
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This New Book on Nurturance Culture Is Needed, but Is It Too Normative?
While “Turn This World Inside Out” makes plain the problems with shaming folks into a more liberated world free of gendered violence, it does so in limited ways that made me as a reader hungry for more.
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Be the Change: 5 Ways to Stand Up to Trump’s Tyranny Right Now
Let’s start a discussion about what we can do as activists, right now in this moment, in the wake of the apocalypse/election.
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The Comment Awards Are Full Of Love
“I found Autostraddle while googling ‘how do you know if you should leave your girlfriend?’ And reader, I did leave her. And then I went to an Autostraddle meet-up and met the lady knight of my wildest dreams.”
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18 Books that Are Queer, Feminist or Otherwise Rad Retellings of Classics
Madeline Miller’s Circe was one of the most talked-about books of the year in 2018, and there’s a reason that we all love queer girl revisionings like Malinda Lo’s queer lit contemporary classic Ash. In that vein, here are 18 books that look at classic tales from a new point of view.
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Boobs on Your Tube: “How To Get Away With Murder” Better Be Bluffing The Hell Out of Us
Plus, American Horror Story: 1984 and Why Women Kill!
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Queer Your Ears October 2019: New Music From Queer & Trans Musicians
It’s fall, so #feelingsfall continues — Claud has some baby gay angst anthems, Heather Mae has all the feelings if you want to cry, and Big Thief gets raw and vulnerable.
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Six Tips for Navigating Chicago as a (Baby) Black Queer
Tip #2 – “Don’t Trust the Internet.”
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Boobs on Your Tube: Andrea Zuckerman Is Queer on “BH90210” — Your Gaydar Was Correct, ’90s Kids
Plus updates in Ackley Bridge and Claws.
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“Good Trouble” Episode 207 Recap: In the Middle
With the summer finale looming, everyone is forced to take a good long look at themselves and their relationships.
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Monday Roundtable: Sign of the Times
Nothing stays the same forever, and that includes our bods; here’s the Autostraddle team talking about how they’ve noticed their bodies aging and what that’s like.
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No Filter: Is Hayley Kiyoko a Big Spoon or a Little Spoon?
I’m honestly just spending this week deciding which celebrities are big spoons and little spoons and nothing you say is going to change my mind.
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Austin City Limits
When my wife walked out on me, we’d had a trip to Austin booked for months. We decided to take it anyway, and this is how I remember it — and us.
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Lookbook: ModCloth and A-Camp’s Queer Femme Summer Plus-Size Party Was Real Dreamy
Transformative. Powerful. Restorative. Life-changing. These are some of the words A-Campers used to describe the Body Posi Plus Size Party we hosted with ModCloth and Mary Lambert at A-Camp X.
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“Steven Universe” Saves the World by Facing Trauma, Abuse and Mental Illness With Hope and Heart
“I don’t need you to respect me, I respect me. I don’t need you to love me, I love me.”
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5 QPOC Visionary Fiction Projects to Look Out for in the Not-So-Distant Future
Our ability to conceive of ourselves surviving and thriving into the future is a crucial part of manifesting it as a lived reality.
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The Bus to Bantayan
There’s nothing like a beach date to the Northernmost tip of your home island of Cebu, Philippines to make you ponder the meaning of love and life, as part of the Filipino diaspora!
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Pansexual Pizza Sluts: Weigh In On The Gayest Agenda
What is the acid on a white pizza anyway?
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Finding Personal Power and Magic in Tarot
Church leaders wielded the idea of “the will of the Lord” in ways that forced me to surrender power and agency — but when I started reading tarot, I found a new way to move through the world.
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Queer Women Truly Are More Likely to Be Tree-Hugging Hippies
“Although not all of us are saving our shower water to nourish the eggplants growing next to our chicken coop, our study and several others show that we are indeed more environmentally aware than our heterosexual counterparts.”
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Sunday Funday Is Still Stoking Your “Killing Eve” Infatuation
Willow Smith is talking about the future, two trans legends, lesbian ephemera, and more!