Results for: queer parenting
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F*ck It All Fall
Let’s do it, queers. Let’s embrace our seasonal chaotic energy and manifest it into long-term, healthy decisions!
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10 Self Help Books Whose Titles Healed Me Without Having to Actually Read Them
Is reading nonfiction case histories of women who love too much really what I want to do with my one wild and precious life?
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Autism Is Not a Trend, but There Are Problems With How It’s Discussed Online
Health conditions and disabilities are more than how many views a 20-second clip gets or the number of comments under a post. It’s real-life shit that can affect the core of who somebody is.
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Alyson Stoner on the Power of Movement and Queer Joy
“One of the most beautiful things, especially in the queer experience, is joy.”
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8 Coping Hacks For the Neurodiverse Baddies
Needless to say, I own a few slimes.
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How to Meal Plan Without Hating Your Life and Your Self
Preparing a meal does not have to be an elaborate situation.
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Unlearning Shame, Relearning Pleasure: Resources on Healing From Purity Culture
Reflect on the ways in which you’ve internalized purity culture’s messages about sex, love, and what is “good” and what is “bad” or shameful in your own life
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So You Want to Try Sex Therapy
Sex therapy is one of those things that sounds simple on the surface, but is really much more widely encompassing that one might originally suspect.
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You Need Help: How Do I Become the Protagonist of My Own Life?
Who were your fictional heroes? What were the stories that were told to you in the songs that you played on loop? Who were the artists who sang them, and how did their lives – so close to fiction anyway, by virtue of Hollywood tabloid culture – create stories for you? What did you imagine for yourself, as a teen?
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I Want You to Touch Me: Skin Hunger and Digital Dysphoria in a Pandemic
Chances are, you know someone who is quarantining alone right now. Maybe even you, yourself, are alone, and have been for the past several weeks. If so, it’s important to learn how this extraordinary circumstance might be effecting your mental, emotional, and physical health – and what steps you can take to mitigate and reduce that harm.
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The Invisible Addicts: Addiction and Treatment in Black LGBT Communities
In my own struggle to get sober, I would spend days telling myself that my bottoms were “not that bad.” That the next day I would drink lighter, drink less, have water between glasses. For black gay addicts, we’re pressured at both ends. One of the reasons I’m sober today is because people around me talked about it, they extended their hands and hearts to me without knowing it.
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Future Present: Change Happens When We Are Embodied
I knew we all wanted justice, ease and wellbeing, and that our anger was a manifestation of our love for each other. But I also watched as my own fight or flight response kicked in in group dynamics, as I felt habitually roped into defensive positions that felt out of my control. I couldn’t reconcile this big gap between intention and action, so I knew I needed to withdraw not out of avoidance but out of commitment to my own healing. In retreating to understand my own depletion, I discovered somatic practice.
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The Autostraddle Guide To Queer Mental Health
An epically organized guide to some of our best work on topics including depression, anxiety, grief, eating disorders, substance abuse and other legitimately important topics.
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A Therapist on What You Need to Know About Your Own Mental Health in the Time of COVID19
We all must do the internal work of unpacking how the harms of our social structure have become internalized, have lived in our bodies, have shown in our relationships. We must allow ourselves to feel the weight of it.
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Bearing Life With and Alongside: On Masculinity, Pregnancy, and Medical Trauma
I hadn’t experienced transphobic violence in medicalized form before. But I’d experienced it in many others: in punches and pushes, through threats with weapons, or by being run off the road by cars while I was on foot.
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9 LGBTQ People Speak Out About Pre-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder
The following are stories from LGBTQ people living with PMDD — how it manifests for us, what helps and what doesn’t help, and any challenges or opportunities we have found in seeking help.
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Tattoos and Disability: Surviving An Experience Not Everyone Can Handle
“I made a choice about how I would look, and didn’t realize until I’d done it how unprecedented that was.”
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What Planned Parenthood Means to LGBT Women: The Roundtable
Autostraddle and A-Camp staff and family members are here to talk about what PP means to us as LGBT folks, and why we need it to be around for a very, very long time.
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Gal Pals, Community, Money, Marriage, Bike-Riding and Acceptance Make LGBTQ Women Feel Healthier
Welcome to the first in a series of exciting discoveries from our survey of over 4,000 Autostraddle readers over the age of 29.
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We Went to the Moon; Why Can’t We Make A Baby from Two Eggs Yet?
In the early oughts, Dr. Orly Lacham-Kaplan got pretty close to figuring out how to turn two human eggs into a baby — something a lot of lesbians want to see happen very soon. What happened?