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It's Only Life After All: Amy Ray and Emily Saliers in black jackets looking off in multicolored lights.

‘It’s Only Life After All’ Is a Moving Tribute to the Indigo Girls

It’s easier to deal with homophobia, sexism, and the many injustices of the world when you’re not alone. Amy Ray and Emily Saliers were never alone. They made themselves possible…

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Apr 10, 2024

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music

Spend Your Easter Weekend With the 90s Fever Dream That Is the Indigo Girls-Led ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’

It hooked me from the opening staging — that chugging rock guitar, the Pure Moods candelabra in the background, the of-a-specific-time aesthetics and choreography (“The Temple” includes inflatable sex dolls…

Lindsay Eanet —

Apr 7, 2023

also.also.also

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society + culture

Also.Also.Also: Have You Seen the Indigo Girls Tiny Desk Concert Yet?

12 global queer art shows worth traveling for, how to split finances in a poly throuple, and considering the gap between how old you actually are verses how old you…

Carmen Phillips —

Feb 23, 2023

2020 presidential campaign

indigo girls

comedy

The 2020 Democrats, Explained by Classic Indigo Girls Songs

You could say we’re “up on the watershed, standing at the fork in the road” – and the list of our choices is as vast and varied as Indigo Girls’…

KT Lindemann —

Sep 16, 2019

90s nostalgia

angelina jolie

celebrities (vapid fluff)

Top 10 Lesbian, Queer or Bisexual Celebrities We Remember Being Out Back Then

On our recent survey of Autostraddle readers over 29 we asked “who was the first lesbian or bisexual celebrity/public figure you remember being aware of?” These are the scientific results…

Riese —

Mar 10, 2015

adele

ani difranco

playlists

Playlist: You Can Go Home Again

Here are some songs to help get you there.

Cara —

Nov 19, 2012

dorothy allison

Going Down (South)

first person

How The South Made Me A Queer Feminist

In the rural South, the word “tomboy” is basically a euphemism for “She’s genderqueer, and she may or may not grow out of it. Hell if we know.”

fonseca —

Aug 7, 2012

ani difranco

dar williams

issues

Playlist: Just A Girl In The World

Songs about places. So many places to sing about, like Ohio and Carolina and Georgia and London and Nashville and New Orleans and New York and California and you’ll see!…

Riese —

Mar 5, 2012

adele

bob dylan