Results for: a camp
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Butch Please: Butch Goes Camping
Camp is family, after all.
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This One Time At Queer Writing Camp: All About the 2013 Lambda Literary Retreat
What I learned from a week on a hilltop with 50 queer writers.
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Trans Fiction, Trans Imagination: Notes on (AcroYoga) Camp
Sitting there, eyes closed, I could feel the subtle movements of the two people I was touching. To my right—someone I’d never met. I’d glimpsed basketball shorts, ragged tee, short hair. Muscular, athletic body. My hand on an unfamiliar, living knee.
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Untethered: In Defense of a Messy Bed
There’s a certain kind of comfort to me in dishevelment.
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Aunt Opal and the California Cabbage Fund
“When I asked her if I had to start praying for a husband, she laughed like a bark, like the boss.”
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Take Me Back to Standee’s
For many of us, Standee’s was one of the first public spaces where we could openly and comfortably share our most authentic gender expression.
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Untethered: Into the Woods
The woods are Escape. They have always held my personal ideal of “freedom” cradled in their branches.
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Untethered: On Miss Havisham-Style Decision-Making
My ex and I worked out a separation agreement over the course of those months and signed it in August.
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An Incomplete List of Things I Wish My Mother Would Do
46. Look at the menu beforehand.
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Untethered: Turning Dancing, D&D, and Body Piercings Into Friendships
One of the things about not having spent significant time being single is that my friends have often been tangled up with partners.
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My Girlfriend Installed My Bidet While I Cheered Her On: A Love Story
After the powerful stream of water was done ricocheting off my asshole, I turned the bidet off and gave my girlfriend a standing ovation.Â
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Untethered: The Gelatinous Descent
My therapist asked me to please read Unmasking Autism and referred me to someone who does ADHD and autism screening.
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I Spent the Summer Screaming in My Car, What About You?
When the sound of a scream leaves my throat, it is a choice. I am never accidentally screaming. I scream in the car and it is on purpose. Â
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They Should Have Sent A Poet
“I was around the same age as young Ellie when ‘Contact’ came out. The way she so clearly carries her childhood self with her made adulthood legible; it made time seem like less of an unknowable straight line and something more like a circle. Watching it as an adult I have that same feeling.”
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The Seduction of Aliens
When I saw a UFO, I was 18 and it was the night before prom.
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Goodbye to My Gallbladder
Happy Gallbladder Day on Autostraddle dot com! I’m glad you’re here and I’m glad my gallbladder is not.
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50 Questions I Asked Siri When My iPhone Was Joyriding Alone in an Uber All Day
“Siri, can you please lock me out of Twitter?”
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Here’s What I Learned By Choosing to Step Away from Productivity For a Whole Day
I did nothing “productive” for a whole day: no email, no phone calls, no work, no cleaning, nothing that fuels my inherent Capricorn desire to win at Capitalism. Here’s what happened.
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Change Is Magic: On Cooking and Bodies
Science fiction taught me that any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic. In the kitchen, my girlfriend is a witch.
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Slow Takes: A Tribute to Zoom Theatre
The story of how I joined theatre is like if the Disney Channel was dark and gay.