In which our team answers our members’ questions about the care and keeping of their skin!

“So many people struggle with getting out of their head and into their body during sex.”

Before I tell you about all the things that were done right with Horror Is So Gay, let me tell you about the things I did wrong.

“I want you to know that three different people in my life sent me this video the day it dropped. I have not been the same since.”

If a date doesn’t suggest a meetup, does that mean they’re not interested? Should you break up over differences in how you relate to sex and desire? What’re tips for coping with treatment resistant ADHD? And more!

It’s the second issue of the best little behind-the-scenes newsletter EVER.

“everyone act medium”

For a split second, I thought about her racial calculations, not because I felt I needed to know, but because maybe, finally, someone might be like me. I knew our skin colors carried the weight of the same questions.

“I really wanted the movement of the novel to start with an I and end with a We.”

“what if autostraddle just became a mariah carey fansite”

Big slut energy, a friend lying about traveling, how to get reading done, dealing with getting misgendered by coworkers, and more!

Getting out there after separating from your cishet husband, mixing masculine and feminine style, asking people at the bar to kiss you on your birthday, and more!

“no one gives you a free personal pan pizza when you do something you really, really don’t want to do! we live in a crumbling society”

“Ok someone had previously asked if Autostraddle was going to write a piece on How To Build a Sex Room and I did not realize it was a SHOW I just thought someone was requesting extremely specific DIY content?????”

I don’t know who needs to hear this today, but I dreamed that the New York Times put a paper grocery bag of 9 kittens on every doorstep to promote subscriptions.

This is a book collection that’s used and loved, out of place and a little mismanaged — not for lack of care, but quite the opposite, due to an abundance of it. I wouldn’t have it any other way.

“i don’t care about this at all except i would like to request hot pictures of the lesbians involved for a feature”

Traveling while queer / trans and pregnant, PDA at Disney, tick checks…and more!

Advice for coping with your partner’s internalized fat-phobia, wedding vows, navigating social situations and friendships as an autistic person, and more!

Coping with fatphobia and QAnon relatives, hosting your first party, regifting and more!