Results for: meet up
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Straddler Nation: We Built This Meet-Up on Rock ‘n Roll (And Baked Goods)
In which Claire and Whitney talk to folks who have planned or hosted meet-ups and ask them for tips and tricks they’d pass along to others. Also, there’s a lot of dreaming big in here. Get into it!
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Straddler Nation: We Started Meet-Up Groups and You Can, Too!
Welcome to Straddler Nation, a brand-spankin’-new series in which two rockstar meet-up group captains talk to folks building Autostraddle communities IRL around the world. For their first installment, they talked to some folks who started or are taking the reigns over their local groups.
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Raising Baby T. Rex: Temper Tantrums and Dinner Dance Parties
Dealing with a toddler having a temper tantrum is a lot like putting out a fire, plus mom bod nudies, Remi’s fav song for dinner dancing, cat baby watch update, and more!
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These Shirts Were a Choice
The kind of miniseries that seems like a great idea when your fever is at its highest, truly.
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Raising Baby T. Rex: The Soft Underbelly of a Hard Femme Mama
I love how soft I am postpartum. It’s a reminder of how my body stretched and grew and changed to grow a tiny human. I didn’t know I could be that strong and that soft simultaneously. I didn’t know my softness could be my strength.
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Shibari 101: Hogtie
Here’s how to put a few basic shibari ties together so you can hogtie your rope bottom!
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AM/PM: The Start of Shoot Day
“I take my coffee either black, or chock full of sugar and half and half. Today was definitely a light and sweet day.”
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Queer Crip Love Fest: Love Is Showing Up
For the final installment of Queer Crip Love Fest, we turn the cute up to 11.
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Poly Pocket: Figuring Out Where To Start
How a single 31-year old pansexual non-monogamous Black woman living in Los Angeles is starting to explore poly.
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Queer Crip Love Fest: Nobody Can Go Through This World Alone
In the spirit of gathering our strength and resisting the living hell out of these next four years, I bring you our sweetest installment to date — along with some notes for the revolution.
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Poly Pocket: Balancing Comfort and Desire
How a 23-year-old bisexual polyamorous nonbinary femme xicanx in two very loving relationships does poly.
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Bottoms Up: You Are Not My Dom
Somehow, self-identifying as a submissive makes some potential doms think I am their sub.
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Queer Crip Love Fest: Parenting at the Intersections
“Before becoming a parent, I looked at parenting through rose-colored glasses — with an able-bodied person’s perspective. It was drilled into my head by other people, well-meaning as they were, that I probably shouldn’t have children.”
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Poly Pocket: Polyamory and Recovery
How a a 28-year-old white genderfluid bisexual in recovery from an eating disorder/anxiety/depression does polyamory.
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Queer Crip Love Fest: Nana’s Stories and Ginger Loaf
“I think for many of us as disabled folk, we’ve come to terms with what we experience — but Nana’s experience of dementia is sort of different in that she doesn’t always know what’s happening or who and what she can trust. We can be empowered about disability at the same time as acknowledging that some of it really, seriously fucking hurts.”
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Poly Pocket: Wholeness Doesn’t Mean One Thing
Here’s how a 23-year-old mixed race Asian genderqueer polyamorous bisexual femme who just moved to Brooklyn does poly.
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Poly Pocket: Polyamory As All Possibility
Here’s how a 23 year old polyam queer femme living in Long Beach, CA, in a long-term relationship does poly.
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Queer Crip Love Fest: More Seen Than I’ve Ever Felt
An A-Camp love story to help ease your comedown!
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Feelings Rookie: Hopping Off the Plane at L.A.X. With a Dream and a Cardigan
Fitting into Los Angeles wasn’t going to happen for me. Or so I thought, until I stopped trying.
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Straddler Nation: Building Safe(r) Spaces for Queers IRL
How do real-life communities based off of online ones maintain safe and inclusive spaces? Let’s talk about it!