Be a Part of Autostraddle’s Fall Fashion Gallery!
What’s your look for the season ahead? Bad in plaid? Leather mommi? Comfort connoisseur?
Resources and Tools for Climate Change Resilience
Climate change poses an unprecedented threat. But individuals and groups have been doing work to respond. Here’s a guide to helpful practices, attitudes and communities.
Managing the Groundlessness of Climate Change
Is climate change freaking you out? There’s a way to experience this anxiety as motivation for to collective response. But first we have to face it.
A Playlist for When You Break Up In Autumn
As an 11-year relationship ended and the dust settled around me a couple weeks ago, I realized something: I needed music, I needed someone in my ear telling me everything I’m feeling and seeing wasn’t new and unknowable, that this was A Thing That Happens.
5 Tips for Finding the Perfect Gender-Neutral Perfume or Cologne
Here’s how to find a fragrance that fits who you are, even when you don’t fit neatly into marketers’ boxes.
NSFW Sunday Has Vintage Lesbian Smut Just For You
Vintage lesbian art! Plus: why being a second is best, why your girlfriend kinda looks like your mom, turning a tiny apartment into a dungeon and more.
Black Queer Ladies Are Rocking Your World This Sunday Funday
Samira Wiley, Lena Waithe, Gaga, gay songs, genderqueer actors, and interracial lesbians buying a house in Connecticut!!!
3 A.M.: Old Friend
Mae gets an unexpected knock on the door.
Y’All Need Help #10: Your Crushes Are Killing
Today is all about crushes and what you should do about them: something, or nothing? Three questions, three answers. Only the strong survive. It takes two to tango. Love is a battlefield. Loose lips sink ships!
Grease Bats: Family
“Who knew Str8 Karen could be so exhausting?”
Boob(s On Your) Tube: Ilana Celebrates #BiWeek on “Broad City”
Also AHS: Cult keeps being terrifying for all the wrong reasons.
NEW MERCH ALERT: Hot Take Tees Take Hot Queer People to Hottest Possible Levels
Listen, even if you don’t believe you’re a person who is capable of Hot Takes, as a queer person in this current political climate, you are an actual hot take.
Autostraddle Bi+ Week Roundtable: Choosing Visibility
How do we want to be seen in our daily lives? How much control do we really have over it? How do we make ourselves visible in a world that often chooses not to see us clearly, and what risks and complications come with it? There’s no one answer, which is why we had all these Autostraddle staffers who identify somewhere under the bisexual umbrella talk about it for you!
Friday Open Thread: Truth Or Dare?
Happy weekend, babes. Let’s hang out and tell secrets and eat popcorn!
Why Is YouTube Demonetizing LGBTQ Videos?
Queer content creators are losing page views and revenue over YouTube’s inexplicable decision to hide LGBTQ and mental health videos, while also demonetizing them.
The Comment Awards Are Flirting With You
“What if my pet is a sourdough starter named Sue Perkins?”
Playlist: Bi Visibility Week
“For me, listening to music has always been a source of power, especially when the music I listen to is by other bi and queer folks.”
Shanah Tovah, Here’s 36 Influential Jewish LGBTQ Women & Non-Binary Humans!
Some interesting Jewish people to enjoy with your apples and honey.
Sharon Stone Crossing and Uncrossing Her Legs
“I watched her zip up her white dress in the mirror; I watched her cross and uncross her legs; I watched her, and my friends watched her, and in the movie we were watching the other characters, men and women, watched her. I hated her so much, and so purely, with such satisfaction. I couldn’t look away.”
Sew Your Own: Pants Projects for Any Skill Level
Trousers, jeans, and shorts that fit your body and your gender.