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For Cammie Woodman, Tennis and Transition Go Hand-in-Hand

A year after transition, Cammie Woodman watched Serena Williams play tennis. It changed everything.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

Jul 24, 2025

FIRST PERSON

On Being a Masc Top From Rural Oklahoma

You’ve fucked every lesbian sorority girl in Oklahoma, someone tells me on an app. Well,…

Autumn Fourkiller

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Jul 23, 2025

SPORTS

13 Lesbian Basketball Couples Pulling the Ultimate Power Play

We love it when a current or former WNBA player dates another women’s basketball player!…

Riese

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Jul 20, 2025

FIRST PERSON

Andrea Gibson Kept Sincerity Alive

The loss of Andrea Gibson is not just one that rocks the poetry world, but…

Gabrielle Grace Hogan

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Jul 18, 2025

first person

On Being a Masc Top From Rural Oklahoma

You’ve fucked every lesbian sorority girl in Oklahoma, someone tells me on an app. Well, I said. Probably not all of them, right?

Autumn Fourkiller —

Jul 23, 2025

sports

13 Lesbian Basketball Couples Pulling the Ultimate Power Play

We love it when a current or former WNBA player dates another women’s basketball player! Here are eleven couples still going strong and being tall.

Riese —

Jul 20, 2025

first person

Andrea Gibson Kept Sincerity Alive

The loss of Andrea Gibson is not just one that rocks the poetry world, but the world at large.

Gabrielle Grace Hogan —

Jul 18, 2025

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gender

Surprise, It’s Depression: Recovery from Gender-Affirming Surgery

After gender-affirming surgery, many trans people experience post-operative depression. Awareness and the knowledge that you aren’t alone can help.

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Mar 29, 2022

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Things I’ve Never Asked My Girlfriend of Three Years About Age Gaps, Topping, and Our First Date

In part two of their intimate interview, Autostraddle Managing Editor Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya asks her girlfriend Kristen Arnett to define being a top and what she remembers about their first…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Mar 29, 2022

you need help

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breakups

You Need Help: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

I know I must sound like a broken record: “break up…break up…break up!” But I truly think that you both deserve the kind of relationship where your needs are being…

danijanae —

Mar 29, 2022

march madness

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Autostraddle March Madness: Better Halves — Baby Gays

Plus the Sci-Fi/Fantasy better halves you’re sending to the Autostraddle Sweet 16!

Natalie —

Mar 28, 2022

literature

trans

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literature

Making it Work: A Queer Author Screams into the Wind

I was a couple of months into transition, and re-examining my relationship with seemingly everything I’d taken for granted until then.

Nyri A. Bakkalian —

Mar 28, 2022

killing eve

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“Killing Eve” 405 Recap: Carolyn’s Flashback Episode Is a Mixed Bag

Eve makes a move against Hélène, and Hélène strikes back HARD.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Mar 28, 2022

ariana debose

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Pop Culture Fix: Ariana DeBose Is the First Queer Person of Color, First Afro-Latina to Win an Acting Oscar

Plus all the queer couples who walked the red carpet at the Academy Awards, your gay faves and their gay moments, and a call to bring Brittney Griner home.

Heather Hogan —

Mar 28, 2022

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