feminism Tis the Cozy Games Season When the leaves start changing, I wrap myself in the warm embrace of a cozy game
flytrap fridays Death Becomes Her The lesbian ultraviolence of "Camp Miasma" pulls at the threads of queer desire.
ATF Ask the Flytrap: I Got Sick and My Friends Ghosted Me I want to meet new people, but how can I know whether they're trustworthy?
Paid-members only sex work Loose Women Deserve Their Flowers When a woman has too much desirability, too much beauty, too much pleasure in being seen—she is too much woman.
flytrap fridays Worst Vacation Ever Underneath every quaint small town, there's class war. It's just a little more literal in some.
ATF Ask the Flytrap: Feeling Catty Must I suffer my friends' horrible nicknames for my cats in silence?
Paid-members only fashion The 'MAGA Makeover' is Over, and Its Replacement is (Even More) Terrifying Fascists are using fashion to normalize radical perspectives and groups into normie society.
books The WNBA Was Supposed to Give Queer Players a League of Their Own In this excerpt from ‘The W: A History of the WNBA,’ Tamryn Spruill explores how she came to love a league shaped by athletes who refused to separate politics from sports.
ATF Ask The Flytrap: How Do I Emotionally Escape My Hoarder Parents? I moved time zones away, but I can't find emotional distance.
Paid-members only books Striking Out the Stigma of Self-Publishing From the Brontes to 'communist gay wish fulfillment,' writers taking control of their own work is having a(nother) moment. And we like it that way.
ATF Ask The Flytrap: Should I Give My MAGA Grandma One More Chance Before She Dies? She said something horrible to my spouse.
Paid-members only music A Los Abandoned Gig Made Me Realize Being Old Is Cool As Fuck Aging is a truly disorienting experience, but standing in a dark room surrounded by strangers and singing along to Los Abandoned somehow made the passage of time disappear.
Meet a Founder Meet a Founder: Nicole Froio I see cultural criticism as a way of saving our brains from the stasis the overlords obviously crave for us.
ATF Ask The Flytrap: Should We Get Married for the Bureaucrats? Getting married would save money and logistics, but I feel a little cold doing it for technical reasons.
Paid-members only Brazil Come to Brazil (with a "Z")! How imperialism turned Brazilian culture into a commodity.
ATF Ask The Flytrap: Do I Need New Friends? I need real support from my people, not heart-emoji reactions.
disability Sometimes You Need an Apocalypse to Survive A summer of unrelenting pain revealed the disaster that is being disabled under late-stage capitalism.
books On Maintenance and Momfluence In this excerpt from ‘Femmephilia: Love Letters to Trans Mermaids, Queer Mothers, and Marilyn Monroe,’ Sophie Lewis examines what maternal memoirs say about the complexities of motherhood.
ATF Ask The Flytrap: Am I Living in a Romance Novel or Do I Need a Reality Check? After 20 years in the closet, I finally realized I'm a woman. Is my new flirtation with a fellow trans woman the real deal?
Paid-members only television Un-Loving ‘Love Island’ The messy discourse around Season 8 of Love Island USA exposes reality television’s deeply entrenched anti-Blackness.
FlytrapxBitch 25 Years Ago, “Josie and the Pussycats” Predicted the Reigning Tyranny of Our Time “Josie and the Pussycats” is a film that, in satirizing history, became a precursor to our surveillance future.
ATF Ask The Flytrap: I'm Here, I'm Queer, and I'm Trying to Live My Best Poly Life ... with Long Covid The plague really fucked my shit up.
Paid-members only AI The Slop Machine is Taking Down the Pop Machine Technofeudalism has stripped pop music of much of its potential for meaning.
