Results for: meet up
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We Have To Take Care of Each Other: Mutual Aid for COVID-19 and Beyond
We don’t know the answers to most of our questions about COVID-19 and this specific moment in history. But we do know this: together, we can take care of each other. We have no other choice.
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Wow Happy Birthday to Us: Here’s How Our A+ Birthday Membership Drive Went!
Yesterday’s Advice-a-Thon was beautiful!!! A+ Members got advice on friendship, family, dating, peoples’ jobs and work, gay weddings, just navigating queer life — we are receiving word from our correspondents that one reader even told her girlfriend she loved her after getting advice about it!
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How to Take Care of Each Other: Community Care In Times Of Crisis
“When we’ve all broken past the fear of being burdens on others, when we as communities learn how to ask for and give help and support, we’ll be able to take care of each other.”
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8 Books to Read if You Loved the Queer Community of “Stray City”
Have you read Stray City by Chelsey Johnson? It’s got great authentic representation of supportive queer community. Here are eight more books featuring queers who show up for each other!
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Straddler Nation: We Built This Meet-Up on Rock ‘n Roll (And Baked Goods)
In which Claire and Whitney talk to folks who have planned or hosted meet-ups and ask them for tips and tricks they’d pass along to others. Also, there’s a lot of dreaming big in here. Get into it!
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Straddler Nation: We Started Meet-Up Groups and You Can, Too!
Welcome to Straddler Nation, a brand-spankin’-new series in which two rockstar meet-up group captains talk to folks building Autostraddle communities IRL around the world. For their first installment, they talked to some folks who started or are taking the reigns over their local groups.
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Spend the Holigays With Your (Queer) Family: Host an Autostraddle Meet-Up This Season!
Let’s make the season gayer than ever by spending it with our chosen queer families — our partners, our gal pals, and our fellow ‘straddlers!
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I Get Bi with a Little Help from My Friends
In general, my bi friends understand the alienation, erasure and self-doubt that comes with being bisexual in a “can’t you just pick one” world. By seeing and believing each other’s negative experiences, we help each other reduce the harm of those things.
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Meet Me at Cuties: The Queer-Owned LA Coffee Bar that Puts Community First
I sat down with Cuties founders Iris and Virginia to talk about finding community, running a commercial space, and how to hold community members accountable.
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Break Out the OJ: Autostraddle International Brunch Weekend Is Coming Right Up!
International Autostraddle Brunch Weekend will be on August 20 – 22. You should host one! You should go to one! You should eat every last piece of toast in the building!
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It’s Autostraddle Babe-B-Q Season Again!
You’ve got one wild and precious life to live. Why not spend a day of it with a spatula in your hand while someone else preps the Tofurkey sausages and then sit back in a lawn chair and put some coleslaw in your face surrounded by a bunch of people you’ll soon find yourself hopelessly in love with?
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Be The Change: 5 Tips to Plan a Damn Good Activist Meeting
How to organize a meeting that won’t result in headaches, boredom, or existential dread.
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Damn The Man: Autostraddle’s International Meet Me At The Record Store Day Is Back!
Come for the Bowie reissues, stay for the Rockabye Baby covers of Creedence Clearwater Revival. Also, meet-ups!
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Be the Change: Take Care of Your Community, Take Care of Yourself
When our communities are strong, we are strong. Let’s talk about supporting ourselves to support each other and vice versa.
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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Inner Child to the Rescue
I’ve been resuming a lot of childhood activities recently: going to concerts, playing video games, reading books for hours, spending time outdoors, shopping in the boys’ department at Gap Kids. Anyone else? Get in here and tell me about it!
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Straddler Nation: Building Safe(r) Spaces for Queers IRL
How do real-life communities based off of online ones maintain safe and inclusive spaces? Let’s talk about it!
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How We’re Planning to Stay Strong, Defend Community While Resisting Donald Trump
“I’m ready to have an open heart and open mind and be ready to participate and show up for my community.”
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The A+ Bee Issue 32: That’s Her
This issue has it all — a winter themed Eye Spy, queer cheer, straddlers meeting up and being cute, the continuing gaydventure, and yet another Tarot for the Fortnight.
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We Are One In the Same: Experts Explain What Self-Care and Community Care Really Look Like
We all know self-care is important, but what does that actually mean? I talked to four experts in mental and social health care to find out more about the nuts and bolts of what self-care and community care look like for queer communities.
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LGBTQ People Can’t Have Safe Spaces But We Still Need Community
“Our community is at once intimately connected and hopelessly far-flung, legitimately linked by no more than three degrees of sex partners on a worldwide daisy chain and profoundly lonely. I only had community last weekend because I’d flown three hours to get it.”