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“And Just Like That” TV Team Roundtable: On Che’s Comedy Concert, Miranda’s Queer Awakening, LTW’s Jumpsuit and More!

The TV Team weighs in on all our feelings about Sex and the City reboot And Just Like That’s first season: the good, the bad and the Che Diaz.

The TV Team —

Feb 4, 2022

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Roundtable: Is There Anything Hot About the Holidays?

Many of us associate the holiday season with Very Unsexy Things. Is there anything we can do to make the holidays hot? Here’s what Autostraddle writers and editors have to…

the team —

Dec 7, 2021

family

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identity

Do You Know Where Your Straight People Are?: Interviews With Allies (Including Two Cats)

In honor of our biannual Straight People Day, we interviewed two heterosexual friends, two cishet cats, and one past self.

the team —

Oct 12, 2021

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culture

What’s The First Gay Thing You Saw on the Internet?

Also my username was topangaisdabomb6 out of reverence for, yes, Topanga Lawrence from Boy Meets World, so my overall Neopets presence screamed closeted angst.

the team —

Oct 9, 2021

baby-sitter's club

read a f-cking book

literature

‘We Are the Baby-Sitters Club’ Succeeds in Both Praising and Critiquing the Books of Our Childhoods

No topic is off limits in this guide about the young adult book series that shaped the way so many of us interacted with our worlds as children, and the…

the team —

Jul 6, 2021

kink

pride 2021

Photo by Bromberger Hoover Photography/Getty Images. The photo is vintage, in black and white, and is of a person, o-ring around their neck, in front of the US capitol building, and pulling back their shirt to reveal an exposed breast. Autostraddle had to cover up the nipple to abide by social media guidelines, so we used a lavender star.

af+

Love (and Leather) Wins: A Kink at Pride Roundtable

“THAT! That is the kind of queer love I want!”

the team —

Jun 30, 2021

gender identity

genderqueer

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gender

A Gender by Any Other Name: What Does the Term Genderqueer Mean to Us in 2021?

“I feel like people started enacting these borders around it and categorizing it, and that felt so bad and wrong, and the antithesis of everything that it should be. Then,…

Archie —

Jun 24, 2021

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master of none

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“Master of None” Roundtable: Sparks of Queer Black Brilliance in an Unsatisfying Story

“All around I wanted something sweeter. We so rarely see two BLACK women loving each other I was hoping it would be triumphant. I get that love and relationships are…

The Speakeasy —

May 27, 2021

covid-19

quarantine

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first person

What a Long Strange Year It’s Been: A One-Year Quarantine Reflection Roundtable

We were hoping not to have occasion to revisit this conversation as a one-year anniversary, but we do, so here we are, exploring the question: What do you feel like…

the team —

Mar 26, 2021

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community

Happy Birthday to Us! Here’s What We’d Say to Our Tween Selves

“In the future, there will be so many women’s basketball games on TV that you won’t even be able to keep up with them!”

the team —

Mar 9, 2021

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breakups

How to Honestly Tell When It’s Time to Break Up

Sometimes it takes an outside perspective and an objective read on what’s going on to tell whether it’s healthiest to separate — which is why our team is here to…

the team —

Jan 21, 2021

covid-19

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love + sex

What We’ve Learned About Dating & Relationships During the Pandemic

“As a broody, miserable bastard, I’ve obviously spent some time pondering past relationship failures and wondering what a functional relationship would look like for myself in the future.”

the team —

Jan 21, 2021