“In Between” Review: The Super Gay, Super Feminist Film No One’s Talking About
No false promises of “girl power” or happiness. Just a reassurance that being alone together is better than being apart.
Oh, Hey! It’s Alyssa #61: Loose Ends
It’s sometimes funny, the things we find ourselves feeling attached to…
No Filter: Samira Wiley and Lauren Morelli Are the World’s Cuddliest Humans
Come for Teddy Geiger’s thirst traps, stay for Ellen Page’s Christmas soup.
POST-HOLIDAY MERCH SALE: 20% Off Everything in the Autostraddle Store
Celebrate the end of #20GAYTEEN with 20% off everything in the Autostraddle store! We’re pretty sure that your happiness and our future depends on it.
TODAY ONLY — All A+ Members Get 25% Off in the Autostraddle Store
Today only, A+ members get an extra-special deal on Autostraddle merch!
OPEN THREAD: Do You Need a Little Gay Christmas Right This Very Minute
I will bring the peppermint bark!
Make Susie Gay, You Cowards: On The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Lesbian Problem
This was gonna be a review of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel but instead it’s just an entire thing about how Susie Myerson is a butch lesbian who works at a club surrounded by lesbian bars frequented by other butches and yet somehow she is not, officially, a lesbian, and neither is anybody else on this usually delightful show!!!
Monday Roundtable: Eggnog?
Y/N?
“Goddess Mode” Is The Cyberpunk Magical Girl Comic of My Dreams and Also My Reality
I absolutely adore all parts of this comic because all elements of it perfectly straddle two tones. The first, a serious critique of actual modern issues of socially applied technology and the second, something we’re all in serious need of these days: a good gay romp.
The Queer Spirits of Christmas Past
Demonic witch queens are always queer. Fact.
Sunday Funday Is Still Dazzled By Tessa Thompson in Her “Men in Black” Suit
Plus: a teenage girl is battling homophobia with cake batter, women carpenters are building homes for the houseless, lesbian football, and all the gay clubs in Utah that are open on Christmas, and more!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Homo For Holidays
The holidays make people horny, apparently (?). Plus when vulvas taste like vulvas, why exes are a plague this time of year, a cis-trans lesbian couple who found each other in the closet and more.
Femme Brûlée: Dark Chocolate Salted Peppermint Bark
It’s simple, delicious, festive, and so easy to make!
Grease Bats: Lonely
“I went to a museum ALONE. Then I treated myself to a fancy coffee ALONE. Then I worked in the library ALONE. Then I bought this sweater ALONE.”
EXCUSE ME, Did Kristen Stewart Get A New Girlfriend While We Weren’t Looking?
Is Kristen Stewart walking around Los Angeles drinking to-go juice with a new paramour?!?! We investigate!
The Comment Awards Are Dancing Around A Solstice Fire
It’s a magical time of year.
Getting In Bed With Kristin: Holiday AMA
How to deal with food and body comments from your family, why you don’t need to “convince” someone to be with you, the joy and peace of taking a break from social media, and more!
Things I Read That I Love #279: Surly Twentysomethings Resembling Peter Pan’s Lost Boys If the Lost Boys Were Girls
Topics include murder, a bonkers Christmas light fight, Brendan Fraser, squatty potties, sunburnt Australia, a ’90s San Francisco dyke “gang,” top surgery, why killers kill, alcoholism and so much more!
Straight People Watch: Holiday Edition
“To everyone’s credit, something they never tell you about as a child is the metaphorical cowboy snowman ready to do the devil’s bidding in a marriage, so who, really, is to blame here?”
Do the Damn Thing, Part One: Setting Goals and Realistic Expectations
January is a time for resolutions, but I’m going to give you something better than that: A pre-New Year three-week lesson on figuring out what the heck you want to do and actually doing it.