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sex toy shopping guide

A range of black matte sex toys, from a wand vibrator to a flogger to a long penetrative wand, are seen poking out of a brown paper shopping bag.

love + sex

6 Queer-Owned Sex Shops You’ll Vibe With

As we stock up on toys and lube for winter, we can put our queer money back into queer-owned sex shops!

Archie —

Oct 13, 2020

#cancelyourgays

one day at a time

television

Watch One Day at a Time on CBS, or It’ll Get Cancelled! This Is Not a Drill!

You — yes, YOU! — can save our favorite queer sitcom One Day at a Time. All you have to do is watch it tonight (and the next three weeks)…

Carmen Phillips —

Oct 12, 2020

nonfiction

steven universe

literature

“Steven Universe: End of an Era” Reveals How Hard Rebecca Sugar Fought for Our Queer Gem Wedding

“But if Steven Universe gets a gay wedding, then every show is going to want a gay wedding!” “‘YES!’ I said. ‘GOOD! WHY NOT???'”

Heather Hogan —

Oct 12, 2020

link roundup

pop culture fix

Kristen Stewart attends the 'Cafe Society' premiere and the Opening Night Gala during the 69th Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals on May 11, 2016 in Cannes, France.

pop culture fix

Pop Culture Fix: Kristen Stewart Knows She Was Cagey About Being Queer, She Just Needed a Dang Minute

Also: Janelle Monáe’s virtual reality concert experience, a Dickinson season two trailer, Demi Lovato reveals the exact moment she knew she was queer, some photos of Viola Davis working out…

Heather Hogan —

Oct 12, 2020

2020 election

2020 presidential campaign

a group of protestors in masks, one of them holds a sign that says "yes we literally mean abolish the police" and another says "defund NYPD"

politics + activism

AS Politics Survey: Where Our Readers Stand On Criminal Justice Reform

Where does the Autostraddle community stand on pressing criminal justice issues including bail, incarceration and police brutality? Here are our findings, based on the Autostraddle Reader Survey and Politics Survey…

himani —

Oct 12, 2020

nonfiction

A woman in a blue dress stands in front of a table of sex toys and holds a heart-shaped riding crop.

lgbt book reviews

Carnal Knowledge Is the Sex Guide You Wish You Had In High School

Carnal Knowledge is full of the truths you wish you’d learned from your hip older sister if your hip older sister happened to read a lot of feminist literature.

Ro White —

Oct 12, 2020

l word season five

podcast

"To L and Back" graphic splitscreen: Tasha in an orange shirt on one side, Dawn and Cindi on the other

the l word

To L and Back LIVE! Episode 509: Liquid Heat With Gaby Dunn, Mal Blum, Brittani Nichols and Cerise Castle

The lights are out and everybody’s making out and we are having a live episode that you can watch (or read the transcript of!) right now, and also a podcast…

Riese —

Oct 12, 2020

kate mckinnon

link roundup

society + culture

Sunday Funday Trusts Kate McKinnon’s Bananapants Doctor More than the CDC

Also: So many Coming Out Day goodies, a trans woman changed her name to Ellen Potter to troll JKR, witches want to know whose spell gave Trump COVID, how your…

Heather Hogan —

Oct 11, 2020