Autostraddle #3
172 x 254 mm, 200 pages
New York, US
Quarterly
First published in 2025, online since 2009
Editors-in-chief: Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Riese Bernard Hansen
Art director: Arsh Raziuddin
Launched as an online networking platform for lesbian, bisexual, queer, non-binary and trans people in 2009, the debut print edition of the ‘politically progressive feminist media source’ Autostraddle was published in 2025. Covering everything from long-form interviews and features to personals pages, crosswords, quizzes and book reviews, it’s an exciting DIY directory for New York’s queer community and beyond.
This latest edition for Fall 2026—themed ‘Be Gay. Do Sports’—leads with a cover story profiling The Texas Elite Spartans, an American Football team made up of predominantly queer players, delving into their growing success on the pitch, as well as the lack of funding for women's football that means they’re still not getting paid. Divided into categories such as ‘How to Live’, ‘Love & Sex’, ‘Lit’ and ‘Funnies’, readers can expect a plethora of features including a candid first person account from Tilly Bridges on finding queer community through Roller derby, an illustrated guide to what your drink order says about you, and a comprehensive analysis of queer cheerleaders—or ‘Queerleaders’—in film and TV, touching on everything from the 1999 cult classic ‘But I’m a Cheerleader’, to the 2022 music video for ‘American Teenager’ by Ethel Cain.