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Hi Gay! It’s Time for Autostraddle’s Ultimate Team Holigay Gift Guide 2022
When you shop using this guide, you’re also giving the bonus gift of support for queer indie media!
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Into the A+ Advice Box #77: Should You Co-Parent With Your Queer Friends?
Plus self-harm scars and dating, crushing hard on your married coworker, learning to celebrate yourself and more!
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Holigay Gift Guide: What To Buy the Muscle Masc in Your Life
I’m including some tighter budget items and more size-inclusive options as well, because I don’t think anyone should be kept from being their best self in the gym just because of finances or lack of available larger sizes.
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Queering Wealth: Examining Our Attachment to Nonprofits
How can we move away from a colonizer, savior mindset when it comes to supporting our community with money, and move into a more collective-centered mindset?
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So You’re Hosting Your First Thanksgiving: Tips for Crushing it From a Seasoned Pro
As someone who has been hosting Thanksgiving on and off for the last 11 years, I’ve learned a lot.
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What Should Your Questionable New Year’s Resolution Be, According to Your Sign?
Let’s all agree to make THIS year call us “Daddy.”
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Healing After Top Surgery: Expectation vs. Reality
What’s it like to walk down the stairs with nothing bouncing? What’s it like to feel a seatbelt flat against me? What’s it like when my girlfriend lays her head on my chest, REALLY on my chest, closer to my heart than ever?
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8 Coping Hacks For the Neurodiverse Baddies
Needless to say, I own a few slimes.
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Holigay Gift Guide: 10 Gifts With Daddy Energy for the Masc Top in Your Life
If you’re looking for a gift that says, “Spank me, Daddy,” I’ve got you covered.
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Holigay Gift Guide: Dark Christmas Aesthetic Edition
We have a candle for those who want their place to constantly smell like they’ve just cracked open the grimoire.
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A Really F*cking Honest Breakdown of My Nighttime Routine
My real, true nighttime routine as a queer person in night school with various medical and mental health issues.
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What Do the Signs REALLY Want for Valentine’s Day?
No matter what zodiac sign(s) are your sweetie(s)’s, it’s probably a good idea to butter them up with what they really, really want for Valentine’s Day.
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Ways To Truly Support and Celebrate Queer Parents During the Entire Holiday Season
The parents in our LGBTQ+ community deserve some rest and celebration.
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How to DIY a “Yellowjackets” Halloween Costume
A little fake blood goes a long way with these cannibalistic gay group costume ideas.
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You Have Long Covid and You Don’t Know What to Do, Let Me Help
I wish I could give you a checklist of things to do and treatments to try; unfortunately, Long Covid is so many things, and it manifests differently in everyone. What I can do is give you a list of more efficient ways to seek answers, and some ideas about how to manage while you look for them.
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Holigay Gift Guide: What To Buy for Your Grad School Friend Who’s Too Busy To Read This
Ah, the holidays. A time for failed gingerbread assembling attempts and corny Hallmark Christmas films. Also, NO SCHOOL!!!
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Michelle Tea’s Queer Pregnancy Memoir Is for Everyone — Not Just People Who Want To Become Parents
For most of my life, I was convinced that some day, somehow, I’d be a parent.
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EXCERPT: In “Thin Skin,” Jenn Shapland Considers What It Means to Live a Childfree Queer Life
In an excerpt from her new essay collection Thin Skin, Jenn Shapland examines childfreedom.
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Holigay Gift Guide: Gifts for Your Favorite Dapper, Transmasc Queer
Dapper, transmasc queers thrive year-round, but in my opinion, we shine brightest in the winter.
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Holigay Gift Guide: For the Queer Always Talking About Their Fur Babies
One of the ways to my heart is truly through my dog, and I bet you have someone in your life who’s the exact same way. Why not get them something for their furry friends this season?