Self-Acceptance & Butt Cover-Ups: 8 Queer Women’s Tattoo Stories
I talked to several smart, artistic, and wonderful inked-up queers in my life about what inspired their body art.
Holigay Gift Guide: Advice for My Mother on What Flannel to Buy My Butch Fiancée
“Can you sneak into her closet and take a pic of the ones she has (just side on hanging up is fine).”
Holigay Gift Guide: Haunted Dolls For Your Spooky Loved Ones
Also, look, I’m a POC, I don’t mess around with haunted dolls, but maybe you do.
The Definitive List of Places Carol and Therese Ate in “The Price of Salt”
“Therese and Carol drink beer and coffee at the Palm Court in the Plaza Hotel with Richard, Therese’s pitiful and jealous boyfriend, who pays for their drinks.”
Spike Lee’s Queer-ish Remake of “She’s Gotta Have It” Would Have Been Better Without Spike Lee
Autostraddle Staff Writers Carmen and Alaina in a conversation about the TV series, the legacy of Spike Lee’s work, black female representation on film, polyamory, and pansexuality.
A+ Roundtable: Misconceptions About Lesbian Sex
There was a time before time, in the yawning abyss of darkness and starfire that is the infinite and ever-expanding universe — a time before any of us had had lesbian sex. Most of us thought about it, though, or tried to imagine how it would work! We were not always correct.
Masc/Femme: Living Your (Cozy) Truth with CC Elise
More often than not growing up, my closet was my salvation.
Gifts To Help You Win at Dirty Santa (Which, Yes, Is a Competition)
The only thing standing between you and that sweet, thrilling thrum of victory is finding the perfect ridiculous gift.
Sunday Funday is Fighting Trump with Maxine Waters and America Chavez in Palm Springs
America Chavez coming to the big screen, Margaret Cho on feminism and righteous rage, Palm Springs’ 100% LGBT city council takes office, reflections on faith from a trans minister, Maxine Waters has our backs, and more good links!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Knows Sex Hair When She Sees It
What lesbian sex hair looks like, trans women keep getting banned on Tinder, stop worrying that she’ll text you back, what it feels like to get your nipples pierced and more.
Femme Brûlée: Dark Chocolate Candy Cane Brownies
Brownies are fudgey and cakey, good warm or cold, you can put basically anything in them, they travel nicely, and go with everything from coffee to ice cream to emotional breakdowns when your party ends and you see all the cleaning that has to be done and need edible support. Perfect.
Some Things: A-Something
“I know we don’t usually have serious talks unless you puked on the floor, but I have an important question for you.”
Friday Open Thread: Music Videos That Make You Hot
Let’s spill to each other like we’re at a high school sleepover and make a new video queue or two.
Judging Tonya
“By the end of the 1994 Winter Olympics, I was 12 years old and quite certain I’d picked the right side.”
The Comment Awards Are Buying a Gender Traitor Onesie for Their Dog
Will it fit? Only one way to find out!
Things I Read That I Love #252: I Loved the Helpless People I Loved
Topics include the Santa Ana winds, murder, Weinstein’s Complicity Machine, sandwiches, black residents targeted by jaywalking (etc) tickets in Florida, “trailer trash,” IKEA cafeterias and so much more!
Gift Guide: Badass Gifts for Cool, Feminist Babies
Are you the hip AF parents of a small human? Do you aspire to the be the quirky aunt (or auncle) who always brings cool feminist gifts? Let’s shop for the babiiiiieeeees!
S.H.E. Episode X: Rebel Girl
“I think I’m not here to get coffee!”
“Princess Cyd” Is the Most Hopeful Queer Film of 2017
“Princess Cyd isn’t interested in the well-worn plot of queer sexual awakening, the torture of figuring out who you are and the fraught path you have to follow to let other people in on your secret. In fact, Princess Cyd isn’t really interested in plot (or secrets) at all. It’s a character study of two women who clumsily and gently brush up against each other and find new happiness because of it.”
How To Thrive As A Sober Queer During The Holigays
About eight months sober at that point, I had two thoughts scream through my mind at nearly the same time – first, “Oh hell yeah, all the whiskey at my fingertips” quickly followed by, “Oh hell no, this is cruel.”