Results for: be the change
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NSFW Sunday Is a Love Letter to Queer Sex
Today is the last-ever NSFW Sunday – and a love letter to building a life around queer sex.
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Queerness Is Messy, I Am Messy and That’s a Very Good Thing
It would have been impossible for me to write the novels and stories that I’ve created without the help of Autostraddle.
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Quit Calling Elliott Sailors A Male Model—She’s More Interesting Than That
So why can’t anyone seem to talk about her the right way?
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Into the A+ Advice Box #69: What If You Have a Stalker?
Supporting a partner with an HIV diagnosis, dating anxiety, dressing while pregnant, and more!
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You Need Help: I’m Too ‘Old’ for This New Generation of Queers
I’m so sorry the people you’re around have made you feel unwelcome because you don’t follow their narrow definition of what being a queer woman looks like.
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Into the A+ Advice Box #65: So You Think You Might Be Gender Fluid
Advice on studying with ADHD, envying they/them pronouns, finding the best outfits to match glamorous heels, masturbation, and more!
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Author Lydia Conklin on Being Queer in the 90s and Writing Characters in Transitional Moments
“Somebody told me that pretty much everyone who grew up queer, especially in our generation, is a secretive person or has an ability for secrecy.”
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Michelle Tea’s Queer Pregnancy Memoir Is for Everyone — Not Just People Who Want To Become Parents
For most of my life, I was convinced that some day, somehow, I’d be a parent.
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You Need Help: Should I Ask My Friend on a Date Even if I Think She’ll Say No?
I’m reading Michelle Elman’s book “The Selfish Romantic” and she talks about how we can never really know unless we ask. And I feel like this is low enough risk that I may as well ask?
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Two Dykes Discuss “Magic Mike’s Last Dance”
This reminds me of the gorgeous difference in our Letterboxd reviews for this film. Mine was like “romance novels for boys are good” and yours was like “the struggling economic realities of being an artist are impossible to navigate.” And look, I think we’re both right!
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“Motherland: Fort Salem” Episode 309 Recap: Marry Your Gays
In the penultimate episode of Motherland: Fort Salem, we get a moment of (gay) peace at Raelle and Scylla’s wedding.
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Boobs on Your Tube: In Its Final Season, “La Brea” Finally Gives Us a Queer Couple Worth Rooting For
Also, updates on “Hazbin Hotel” and “Death and Other Details.”
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Uncommon Pairings: Putting Your Tongue To Work
Welcome to Uncommon Pairings, a new Autostraddle column about wine! Today, we’re learning how to taste.
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You Need Help: I’m Butch and I Want To Try Makeup for the First Time
Remember that ultimately, using makeup and other facial cosmetics is really about making you feel like your best, most confident self.
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You Need Help: How Do I Get Over the First Woman I Slept With?
Focusing your energy on moving on and healing rather than trying to reconnect is the best path forward — and not just for you, but for her, too.
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Boobs on Your Tube: “How I Met Your Father” Brings the Bittersweet Queerness
Plus updates on Class of 09 and Nancy Drew!
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“The Owl House” Is a Place For All Us Queer Weirdos to Stick Together
Luz and Amity tell queer kids they have a present; Eda and Raine tell them they have a future. And in between, there’s stories of disability, chronic illness, mental illness, gender, found family, and so much more.
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I’ll Never Look at the Ocean the Same Way After Reading Sabrina Imbler’s “How Far the Light Reaches”
Sea creatures become iridescent queer metaphors in this wonderfully queer memoir.
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“Class of ’09” Features Sepideh Moafi and Kate Mara Flirting Over 3 Decades
The show eased a fear I didn’t realize I had by guaranteeing that the end of The L Word: Generation Q did not mean the end of Sepideh Moafi playing queer and looking at women like she wants to devour them.
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Also.Also.Also: “The Ache Is Just as Important as the Orgasm,” Kristen Arnett on Writing Great Lesbian Sex
Marking Brittney Griner’s 200th day being wrongfully detained in Russia, polyamorous parenting, the summer of Black queer music, and the long unraveling of the Republican Party.