Look At These Butch Heroes
It’s time to celebrate the butches that make this world better.
How I Let Queer Literature Come Out to my Middle School Students for Me
Middle school is weird. It was awkward as hell when I was a hormonal, monstrous, uncertain twelve-year-old, and only slightly less so when I went back to teach English. So when I found myself, a 23-year-old rookie teacher, standing in a cafeteria fielding a question about how lesbian sex works from a seventh grader, I can’t say I had any right to be surprised.
No Filter: Maybe Rachel Maddow Will Go Fishing With Melissa Etheridge!
Also, find out what Kristen Stewart got into at Coachella and help me decide what Samira Wiley ordered from Red Lobster for her birthday?!?!?
Pop Culture Fix: Kristen Stewart’s Charlie’s Angels Are Here, Surely One Is Queer
Plus: a new Kate McKinnon Hulu series, more from Lena Waithe, lesbians in Netflix’s Wine Country, more Derry Girls, and a reasonably confident future for ODAAT.
Legends of Tomorrow Episode 411 Recap: Something to Sing About
If you thought Legends couldn’t get Jane Austen, a ghost, and a Bollywood musical in the same episode, you haven’t been paying attention.
Autostraddle March Madness — Best Coming Out Final
You have 48 hours to vote for the WINNER!
5 Unofficial Lesbian Relationship Milestones
Whereas we are conditioned to expect a First Date, followed by landmarks like Carefully Crafted First Instagram Post as a Couple and Attending Family Event in Neutral-Toned Sweater, a gay relationship may look more like Be Codependent Best Friends for Three Years Before Realizing You’re In Love Without Ever Going on a Date, followed by Emotionally Turbulent Road Trip to Visit Your Ex’s Rural Co-Op Together.
For Your Consideration: Changing Associations After a Breakup
For when wiping the slate completely clean isn’t really an option.
Abby’s Bisexual Coming Out Episode Breaks New Ground
A bisexual Latina who is a local business owner and a military vet with a deadpan sense of humor, now as normal on our screens as it already is in our lives.
“To L and Back” Podcast Episode 2: L’Pilot (Part Two of Two)
Welcome back to “To L and Back” for the second half of the pilot, in which lesbians have actual sex, Tina sucks, and Dana spots some crispy fresh meat.
Getting in Bed With Kristin: Living, Laughing, Loving Breathing With Riese and Carol
Who is Carol’s favorite The L Word ship? The world deserves to know!
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.
“The Bold Type” Season Three Brings On the Lesbian Heartbreak
Buckle up, folks. We’re in for a gay breakup arc, and it’s not going to be pretty.
Sunday Funday and Lizzo with Janelle Monáe, Oh My!
Hello it’s Sunday and every single one of our faves is here! Lena Waithe and Westworld, Janelle Monáe and Lizzo and “Lady and the Tramp” and Tessa Thompson and Kiersey Clemons! What a great Sunday!!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Self-Tying for Stress Relief
Sometimes you just gotta tie yourself up until you calm yourself down. Plus: a Game of Thrones porn parody, pleasure as resistance, happy birthday to Scarleteen and more.
Femme Brûlée: Strawberry Almond Muffins with White Chocolate Chips
My friend Claire described it as the best strawberry cereal flavor but in muffin form and that’s totally it. You’ve got the sweet nutty almond batter filling in for the cereal, bursts of strawberry that are way better than the dehydrated cereal versions, and a sprinkle of white chocolate chips standing in for the creamy milk at the bottom of the bowl. Yes. You need these in your breakfast rotation.
Grease Bats: Spring Fling
“I’m not emotionally ready for a CRUSH!”
Autostraddle March Madness — Best Coming Out: Final Four
You have 48 hours left to vote your faves through to the NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP OF COMING OUT STORIES!
Boobs on Your Tube: A Happy Ending for Valencia and Beth, a Sad One for Alison and Emily
Plus updates on: Boomerang, The Good Fight, and Roswell New Mexico.
Things I Read That I Love #287: It’s Cool How Gay Sex and Stealing Became Twinned Deviances.
Topics include ice cream, Rosie O’Donnell, the summer of scam, freestyle halfpipe skiing, the capitalist takeover of higher education, JT Leroy, marriage, Bob Fosse and more!