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How REI Prepared Us for the Zombie Apocalypse and Built Community in the Woods at A-Camp
“I was so excited to see REI was a sponsor for A-Camp, as it confirmed for me they put their money where their mouth is, doing actual work to support and include communities we don’t often see represented in the outdoor space.”
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OneTable and A-Camp Team Up to Create a Meaningful Shabbat Experience for Queer Jewish Adults
If you want to build community with Jewish queers by hosting a regular Shabbat dinner practice, OneTable is a non-profit organization that can help you achieve your dreams!
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REI Gave Us The Gift of Giving This Holigay Season
REI brought some extra joy to our writers’ lives by opening up their catalog and letting us choose gifts to give each other!
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City Queers Went Outdoors With REI And Naturally — It Was a Blast
We partnered with REI to encourage queer folks to explore their cities and move their bodies all while meeting new local queers!
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Mondo Fetiche Doesn’t See Why Queer Porn Can’t Also Be Arthouse Cinema
Billed as artcore fetish film and “a creative love affair between modern kink and vintage cult cinema,” Mondo Fetiche’s popping color palettes and self-aware cultural pastiches add a fascinating new layer to the vintage leather aesthetic many of us associate with queer kink. There’s plenty of leather, don’t worry about that – and there’s also babygirl femme tea parties, lesbian soccer scenes on a DIY field, and queer porn tributes to the femdom art of Namio Harukawa.
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The LGBTQ Outdoor Summit Centered Queer and Trans Joy in the Outdoors
For a brief moment, we were part of a temporary but powerful queer community in the woods.
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Trick or Treat Yourself: 8 All-Black Sex Toys for Your Spooky Season
‘Tis the season for black bats, black cats, and maybe a few adventures designed to give you goosebumps. Enjoy these all black everything offerings from Eve’s and let them keep you up through the witching hour and beyond!
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Holigay Gift Guide: Gear and Gadgets for Wilderness Survival
Have a queer survivalist friend who needs some new gear to round out their “get up and go” kit? Or a friend who just likes hiking and/or being outdoors but isn’t sufficiently prepared for the possibility of something going wrong?
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Behind the Scenes With REI’s Force of Nature Initiative
REI is doing so much to change the reality of being a human outside! Including sponsoring this very issue! Here’s everything you ever wanted to know about their Force Of Nature initiative and so much more!
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We Took REI’s Extended Sizes Apparel Out for a Hike, a Zombie Attack, and a Photo Class — Here’s What We Learned
REI invited Abeni, Vanessa, and Heather to choose one of the zillion classes they offer and sent them some apparel from the extended sizes line to test drive. Afterward they got together to talk about the gear, the outdoor sessions, extended sizing in general, and what it’s been like to work with REI at Autostraddle over the past year.
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QUEER IRL PHOTO GALLERY: PRIDE!
It’s Pride month; have you heard? Have you danced in the streets, wearing a rainbow flag, surrounded by topless women, shouting your queerness and here-ness, maybe honking a horn or ringing a bell? Here’s hoping!
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Join Autostraddle and Olivia For A-Camp-Style Fun In Mexico This November!
Olivia invited us on a trip and that’s cool because we really need a vacation, y’all. Maybe you do too? Get in here to find out how to hang out in Mexico this November with Autostraddle, Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, Cameron Esposito, Rhea Butcher and Julie Goldman! Also butch yoga.
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In Which We Go To Ixtapa With Olivia Travel, Give Ourselves To The Sea
In November, Team Autostraddle went on their very first Olivia Travel vacation and it was really awesome and this is their story.
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GFW’s Long Sleeve Button-Down is a Good, Solid Shirt (With a Surprise Secret Button)
This is a good solid shirt, with a surprising (and surprisingly effective) secret button.
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Top Ten Things You’ve Already Gotten Out of BlogHer Without Even Attending (Imagine What You Could Get Out of It If You Went!)
BlogHer is currently going through an EVOLUTION and CHANGE, with new owners and a more diverse group of presenters, and there’s never been a better time for you to be a part of it. Also: you could win a free ticket to #BlogHer15!
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Sleep Tips for Sleepless Queers
Sleep is a gift. A good night’s rest heals the body and soul and is glorious. So, let’s help each other sleep, yeah? I’ll share my tips and you’ll share yours. Then maybe we can have an international spiritual slumber party, but the kind where people actually slumber.
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Our Embarrassing Sleep-Deprived Mess-Ups and Mishaps: A Roundtable
Lord knows the messes we get ourselves into when we haven’t gotten enough sleep. If you want to know them too, they’re all revealed in this roundtable!
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How My Motherhood Made My Mother Accept My Lesbianism
She didn’t say “I have suspected this for years and I still love you.” It went more like a Scared Straight kind of thing but instead of scaring me about drugs and a life of crime, she wanted to scare me straight, straight. “Just Say No to Lesbianism” straight.
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Defining For My Own “Right” Way To Be A Mom
“As a lesbian mom, it was especially hard to fight the urge to do the “right” thing, however slippery a concept that was, because I was representing a community, not just myself, I thought.”
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Custom Fit: Getting Fit
In this special edition of our o.b.® tampons-sponsored “Custom Fit” series, we go over how to fit a workout into all kinds of lifestyles! Also, we have a big announcement about our special o.b.® brand dedicated page!