Results for: Feel good
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I Almost Didn’t Write It
I don’t want to write about it for any other publication. I barely want to write about it for myself.
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The #1 Thing That Keeps Me Up At Night
Along with pencil-thin ties over white tank tops and suspenders, I want unsustainable work habits to be something we leave firmly in the past.
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This Is a Highly Serious Post
Who wouldn’t love to see the AS senior staff sit in a bathtub of cold legumes, just for the sheer hell of it?
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Queerness Is Messy, I Am Messy and That’s a Very Good Thing
It would have been impossible for me to write the novels and stories that I’ve created without the help of Autostraddle.
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Stacks of Boxes and a Bottomless Inbox: A Day of Work
It felt like this kind of thing came so easily when I was 25!
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I Focused My Time on Proving Her Wrong
“I remember telling my girlfriend at the time, ‘I’m going to write for them some day,’ to which she replied, ‘You can try but it’s pretty competitive. I don’t think you’ll ever be good enough to write for them.'”
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Your Comments Showed Me I Wasn’t Alone
“Sharing my stories with that audience never felt right — I always felt like I was explaining, never that I was just telling my truth.”
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Do You Love Queer Books?
I want fewer queer books slipping through the cracks.
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A+ Platinum Has a New Lineup of Queer Books
Platinum is kind of the opposite of that — an option for those of you who want to give more than our current levels allow and really level up the number of times in any 24 hour period you’re reminded that they’re an A+ member!
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I am a Sucker for Romantic Comedies
“The dapper Black girl that danced and sang about the future had led me to a new corner of the universe and I was smitten.”
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Writing for Autostraddle Helped Me Find the Words for My Real Coming Out
“To come into myself, to really integrate my queerness as an essential part of myself, I needed to start telling the stories I had been holding in for so long.”
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No One Else Is Going to Look Out for Us
“‘You realize you’re taking away the jobs and the health insurance of five people at the start of a pandemic and you don’t have to, right?’ She looked at me with her blue eyes, hands clasped to her heart and told me, ‘I have to do this for me.'”
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Where We’ve Come From, Where We’re Going: Autostraddle’s Editorial Growth and Goals
You may have noticed we’re fundraising again! We’re here to tell you about what we’ve done with your support since our last fundraiser, and what we’re planning to accomplish if we continue to survive thanks to your support.
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I Said It Was Time To Quit
It wasn’t the first time or the last time I declared it Time to Quit, a statement I always throw around a bit too carelessly.
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STILL HERE AND QUEER AFTER ALL THESE YEARS — Queer Media Needs Your Help!
“This is the most urgent I have ever felt”
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How To Blow Up Your Life
I thought that by 35, I’d be married. I thought by 35, I’d have kids. I thought I’d be straight.
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June Town Hall Transcript
The transcript for the June Autostraddle Town Hall is now available!
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Being or Becoming Real
“I felt disconnected from my art because I had part time and full time jobs that took up most of my time in the world. I wrote on scraps of paper during lunch breaks and tried, at the end of the day, to have an hour or so of “creative time” for myself.”
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I Missed a Lot of Deadlines, a Lot of Family Movie Nights
My work days got longer and I started saying, “Wait, just give me one second” to my kids a lot more.
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One Foot in Guilt, One Foot in Gratitude: A Day of Work
I asked her if I could have a human-sized cat cone, the one that makes it looks like your head is poking through a piece of toast. Sadly, I cannot — but I can get the brace I need in Tennessee Lady Vols orange, so at least I can support my favorite team while also making sure the top half of my body is the color of a construction cone so I don’t get hit by any cars.