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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

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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

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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

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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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“To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 603: LMFAO With Rhea Butcher!

Riese: I guess if you marry Jodie Foster, you don’t have to do anything anymore. Rhea: You don’t have to. Carly: Nooooooo Riese: I mean, you win! Rhea: Yeah! Riese:…

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Satellite of Love

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Queer Horoscopes for March 2021: How Will You Let Pisces Season Restore You?

After many months of high-pressured astrology, Pisces season offers us a chance to rest and heal. But what does healing look like when we’re still in the midst of crisis?

Corina Dross —

Mar 1, 2021

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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 77, February 2021

“Unless one of you all sent me a mesh shirt that said Pizza Slut???”

Carmen Phillips —

Feb 28, 2021

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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Calling All Size Queers

When it comes to dildos, how big is too big? Also: what Venus in Pisces means for your love life, keeping an ex’s nudes, and more.

Ryan Yates —

Feb 28, 2021

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black history month

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Editor’s Notes: On Black History Month 2021

I am unapologetically, over the moon, absolutely just cheesy cornball, would probably make you roll your eyes levels, proud of being Black, especially during this — the 28 Blackest days…

Carmen Phillips —

Feb 27, 2021

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black history month 2021

Carmen's Aunt Lorna smokes a cigar. She's a light skin Black woman in her late 60s. She is cut out against a black starry sky and there are purple rose petals growing out of the side of the image like a vine.

first person

Everything That Matters Is Stuck in the Back of My Throat

All I have is an ellipsis. Grief is a flat circle. And I never imagined I would have to live through grieving her.

Carmen Phillips —

Feb 27, 2021

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Baopu #83: You and Me, Me and You

A ballad of companionship in the times of COVID.

Yao Xiao —

Feb 27, 2021

all-american

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Anissa Pierce holds Grace Choi's face in her hands and kisses her, long and hard. They are in Grace's hospital room, which has pale purple walls and blue cabinets. Anissa's hair is in long braids and she wears a white blouse, Grace's hair is pulled back into a bun and she wears a hospital gown.

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Boobs on Your Tube: Even a Superqueero Sized Coma Couldn’t Keep Grace Choi Away on “Black Lightning”

Plus, an All-American episode that gives Bre-Z some of the best work of her career, biphobia rears its ugly head once again on grown-ish, and a hilarious and spooky episode…

The TV Team —

Feb 26, 2021