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Hair

Meet the Instagram and TikTok Sensation Creating Gender-Affirming Haircuts

“I want to get all my queer and trans people feeling as good as they can and very proudly be able to present themselves in defiance.”

Elyssa Maxx Goodman December 18, 2024 3 Comments
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Hair

I Asked a Bunch of Queer People About Their Pubic Hairstyles — Here’s What They Said

It turns out that queer and trans people are pretty utilitarian when it comes to crotch maintenance.

Ro White January 18, 2022 19 Comments
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Reine #3: How To Style Short Hair

Step 1- Put 5 pounds of glue on your head. Step 2- ???

Ren Strapp December 28, 2019 3 Comments
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Hair

Queer Sex Coven: How to Cast Spells with Your Hair Color, NBD

Can blue hair help you chill out?

Sophie Saint Thomas July 26, 2019 20 Comments
Breakups Hair

How To Change Your Hair Dramatically After a Breakup

Seize control of your image! Be hot as a form of revenge! Do it for you! Just feel good about something in a time when it’s so easy to feel bad about everything!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya April 29, 2019 17 Comments
Culture Hair

The Bisexual Bob: A Bold Haircut for a Beautiful Future

Since 2016, the bisexual bob has been taking the bisexual world by storm. But where did this alternative lifestyle haircut begin? And where, pray tell, is it going?

Riese November 27, 2018 67 Comments
Hair

86 Truly Innovative Ways You Gays Described Your Haircuts

“Occasionally I wake up looking like a teen heartthrob on the cover of Tiger Beat circa 1997, like a Home Improvement-era Jonathan Taylor Thomas”

Riese November 12, 2018 31 Comments
Hair Issues

Monday Roundtable: Our Worst Haircuts

“I’m adult and I’ve never cried over a haircut before and I don’t usually call my mom when I’m sad or frustrated or mad. She asked to see a photo of it. I sent her one and she asked me if the man hated queers, because this was clearly a hate crime.”

the team November 12, 2018 60 Comments
Hair

Roundtable: The Haircut That Changed It All

In tribute to Lena Waithe, a few Autostraddle staffers got together to share the moment when they decided to cut their hair short.

Adrian August 21, 2018 26 Comments
Hair

7 Stylish Queers Share Their Short Hair Secrets

Whether you just got a short haircut, you’ve had one for many years, or you’re thinking about a change, this post might help you make sense of your mane.

Baylea Jones December 18, 2017 36 Comments
Hair

You Need Help: Hair Drying, With Haste

Here’s how to dry it before running out the door.

Nora August 24, 2017 39 Comments
Hair

Autostraddle Readers Get The Six Queercuts You’re Going To Want This Fall

Pixies and side shaves and short bangs, oh my!

Nora August 17, 2017 34 Comments
Hair

Shonda Rhimes Gives Butch Barber Kylee Howell the Dove Real Beauty Treatment

At Friar Tuck’s, Kylee wants to help everyone who walks in the door — and all genders are welcome — become the most authentic version of themselves. It’s rad as heck to see a major beauty company with a huge advertising budget like Dove honoring that. 

A.E. Osworth July 26, 2017 6 Comments
Hair

Hey New Yorkers, Want A Free Haircut?

If you live in the NYC area, I WANT YOU to play hair model for a future Autostraddle post!

Nora June 20, 2017 7 Comments
Hair

Did I Ever Look Straight Once In My Life?

Ever?

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya June 19, 2017 31 Comments
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Listen,

“See now I’m performing emotional labor.” – Rachel, Managing Editor

Laneia March 8, 2017 68 Comments
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You Need Help: What To Do With Your Gay Hair In Trump Country

I think you could style your hair like Dolly Parton and people on Kentucky front porches and in Kentucky truck beds would still call you a dyke in that horrible ugly tone that only bigots can growl with.

Adrian November 21, 2016 54 Comments
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3 Alternative Natural Hair Looks For Scissor-Shy Curly Queers

It ain’t easy being natural, but it feels good.

Hannah Hodson March 11, 2015 20 Comments
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This Shit Rules: Soft Skin and Rapunzel Hair

Shampoo bars, a life-changing clay mask, and a bunch of things to make your skin shiny and glowing like a spaceship.

Rachel December 15, 2014 32 Comments
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This Shit Rules: Curly Haired Goddess Products

Pair with a solemnly regal air and flashing eyes that strike fear into the hearts of men.

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