FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Moving Forward Oh My God
Let’s gather ’round and build each other up! Deep breaths.
NEW MERCH ALERT: Gender Traitor Onesies, Mommi & Tomboy Femme Tees! Plus SALES!
Doesn’t matter if you’re an adult human or a human baby, we’re bringing you some FRESH overclothes this month!
The Comment Awards Are The Odd Girl Out
“Hey, so that hot friend of yours: is she… ya know, ODD?”
We Lost One of TV’s Most Important Lesbian Characters When “Survivor’s Remorse” Got Axed
The conversation of multi-dimensional black thought, and questions of isolation or not feeling “black enough”, is one that a lot black people are familiar with. It’s smart and nuanced. It’s also a conversation that fundamentally could not be filtered through a white lens. It could not exist on a television show that wasn’t like this.
S.H.E. Episode V: Great Brexpectations
“Resume looks good. Just be the person from this resume.”
Masc/Femme: Reclaiming “Basic” Fall Fashion with Maggie McGill
There’s one thing I’m not chill about and that thing is autumn.
Facebook Watch’s “Strangers” Is One of the Funniest, Smartest Queer TV Shows of 2017
You laugh and cry and swoon and be bewildered that you can watch this show for free on social media.
VIDEO! Getting In Bed with Steph Beatriz!
Steph Beatriz got in bed with me last week… and I was super cool about it. Do you REALLY need to ask any further questions before you dive immediately into this episode?!
14 Newsletters to Make Your Inbox a Better, Brighter Place
Checking your email doesn’t have to always be a bad experience!
Here’s Who Tried To Ruin October For Us
On LGBTQ history month of all months!
It’s the Season of the Witch and Hekate, Goth-as-Hell Goddess of Outcast Women
Hekate is the goddess of outcast women and taking power where you find it.
Pop Culture Fix: “Sweetbitter” Gets a Lesbian Bartender, “Black Lightning” Gets a Bisexual Half-Amazon, “Thor” Cuts a Queer Moment and Other Stories
Topics include Keko coming out, Australian model Fiona Falkiner coming out, Hayley Kiyoko being visible and great, Christine Vachon, a set visit to The Runaways, everything mentioned in the headline, and also there has to be a queer character in 911 right?
Talking the Lesbian Philanthropist Agenda with Program Officer Kristen Plumberg of the Tegan and Sara Foundation
An insider interview with the Tegan and Sara Foundation lead, working a CON X Show and generally loving everything these twins do.
Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for November 2017
Enjoy the powerfully transformative energy of this month. Work your strongest spells for healing, for an end to suffering, for ending all the structures and oppressions that currently feel immortal.
Oh, Hey! It’s Alyssa #33: My Queer Bod
“I can’t be reduced. I’ve come to find resilience sexy.”
No Filter: Seriously, Sarah Paulson And Holland Taylor, This Is Too Much
Also, Cara Delevingne jumped out of a heckin’ airplane, Amandla Stenberg wrestled a robot and Samira Wiley brought you some strawberries.
Notes From A Queer Engineer: Robot Birds and More News About Disaster Capitalism
“Anything brown and round is fair game,” says Patricelli, who says she’s even seen Greater Sage-Grouses try to mate with dried cow poop when nothing more promising was around. “The bar is pretty low for us in trying to fool the males.”
Thank You Jeanne Córdova, Love Autostraddle Dot Com
We’re closing out LGBT History Month with Jeanne Córdova — a legendary publisher and activist who died last year and included Autostraddle as one of many beneficiaries of her estate, which is why we didn’t lose our minds this year.
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 40, October 2017
You’re really gonna wanna see this video Heather made us while on painkillers after taking apart her Roomba to see if she could put her Roomba back together.
22 Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans Women Athletes Who Changed the Game
Women athletes who came out before very recently risked everything to do so: their endorsements, their fans, their spots on their teams, their livelihoods, and sometimes even their own lives. Here are 22 lesbian, bisexual and trans women athletes who changed their games and changed the game for LGBTQ people by choosing to live openly.