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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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No Filter: Jen Richards Sure Is a Wife Now! (Congrats Jen, We Love You!)

Play peekaboo with Chef Melissa King, let Janelle Monáe be your knight in shinning glitter, Trace Lysette will highlight your hair, and watch Niecy Nash and Jessica Betts have live…

Christina Tucker —

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13 Days of A+

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The Best (and Worst) Gifts our Exes Ever Gave Us

‘Tis the season of giving! Also, the season of receiving. Ideally (and often!) this is a joyous event; sometimes it’s a confusing or neutral one; at worst, it’s harrowing. We’ve…

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Organizers From Black & Pink on Supporting Our Incarcerated Queer and Trans Family This Pandemic Winter

“Abolition isn’t just going to protests, which is a really important direct action, but also actively prefiguring the world we want.”

Mai Tran —

Dec 23, 2020

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

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Viola Davis Towers in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” Giving Life to a Black Queer Legend

In Viola Davis’ hands, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” becomes a complex portrait of a queer Black woman hurricane whose footprints loom large over the last 100 years.

Carmen Phillips —

Dec 22, 2020

lost movie reviews from the Autostraddle archives

Mariel Hemingway and Patrice Donnelly in Personal Best.

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Watching “Personal Best” Was the Main Way to Become a Lesbian in the ’80s and ’90s

Bend It Like Beckham could never.

Heather Hogan —

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The Wilds

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Amazon’s “The Wilds” Brings Lesbians to a Deserted Island

The Wilds is sometimes cheesy, sometimes saccharine, all times dramatic as hell.

Valerie Anne —

Dec 22, 2020

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Anonymous Sex Toy Review: Baci

These three Autostraddle writers tried out Baci, a “premium robotic clitoral massager” by Lora DiCarlo that’s meant to mimic oral sex. Here’s how our clits are doing now!

Guest —

Dec 22, 2020

13 Days of A+

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