An Autostraddle Extra Feelings Roundtable: When’s The Last Time You Cried?
Tears are rain upon the blinding dust of earth or whatever.
Feelin’ Bad, Lookin’ Good: A Guide to Your Sad Queer Winter Uniform
Pieces that are easy to throw on and look good when little else is easy at all.
Riverdale’s 13 Top (Gayest) Cheryl Blossom Moments
“I’m not sure if Cheryl wants to murder or make out with Josie, and that’s pretty much Cheryl Blossom in a nutshell.”
Sunday Funday Is Taking Back America One Feminist Bookstore at a Time
The 2018 gay agenda, Allison Ikley-Freeman on being the first out Oklahoma lesbian legislator, new queer feminist bookstore opens in the Heartland, an LGBT Bible app, letters from Your Holiday Mom, a queer aesthetic of Black Womanhood, and more!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is a Winner
How to win a breakup, why queer and trans people need to be part of discussions around birth control, erotic fanfiction, a first lesbian sex story and more.
Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for December 2017
“This has been a year of intense pressure on all our intimacies — even the strongest relationships are undergoing deep transformations.”
Y’All Need Help #15: With a Face as Deadpan as the Aubrey Plaza Sea
Checking on your ex, being honest with coworkers, being honest with everyone including yourself, and pulling yourself out of a year-long sad thing! Come help give advice!!
Every Hotel Breakfast I Ate On My Cross-Country Road Trip, Ranked
This isn’t the Saturday Morning Cartoon you were expecting, but it’ll probably be better than drinking a $5 cup of coffee with powdered creamer, you know?
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Welcome To December!
It is the first day of December and it is also my very first time hosting a Friday Open Thread on Autostraddle dot com! Come say hi please!
Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #16
“Out beyond ideas of likable and unlikable comments there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”
The Comment Awards Are Safe, Weird, & Rolled In Something
“I finally understand why the straights were so worried we were going to ruin marriage. Apparently, they wanted to do it themselves.”
This Is Your 25 Days of Carolmas Advent Calendar
There will always be those who lose sight of the real message of this joyous time, choosing to focus on notions and boat tickets, instead of the lessons laid forth by Our Lady of Waterloo. But not us, Dearest.
BREAKING: Olivia Wyndham and Edna Thomas Are In Love and It’s F*cking Adorable
That one dance with a woman, Edna gasped, “made me know I was a homosexual.”
S.H.E. Episode IX: Bros on Film
“Okay, so there’s this girl…”
Teddy Geiger is Trans and I’ve Never Loved a Pop Singer More
Acclaimed pop singer and songwriter Teddy Geiger came out as trans on her Instagram and Twitter.
Gift Guide: For the Soft Butch Who’s Hard to Shop For
“Look good and cool while going anywhere” should be the soft butch motto, probably.
The Time I Lesbianfiltrated My Mother’s Straight Book Club
LGBTQ representation in literature is important. Also, chicken picatta is delicious.
Let’s Make Cheese Boards and Never Leave the House Again
We’re adults who are both hungry and special and so we deserve gorgeous cheese boards that are also very chill. Important note: this includes one vegan snack board BECAUSE I LOVE YOU.
No Tree, No Problem: Bring Holiday Cheer To Your Treeless Pad
No tree? Me neither! Here’s some ideas to inject sparkle and holiday spirit into your living quarters anyway!
Let’s Get Weird: Wearing It on Your Sleeve
The personal is always political, but in Trump’s America, wearing a headscarf or a suit jacket or a skirt can be especially so.