Results for: dead to me
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A+ Roundtable: Our Favorite Mistakes
“I don’t really view those choices and connections as mistakes, because anything I did that I overall don’t regret isn’t really a mistake.”
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Monday Roundtable: Still Holding On
We’ve packed and unpacked these items through several apartments, hung them up with care, and regularly touch the sleeves contemplatively although today could be the day. Reader, it’s not going to be the day! The day is not coming. Yet we can’t let go of these garments. Why not!
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Monday Roundtable: Queer Culture We Just Can’t Get Into
“Look, I’m sorry! Every year the concept of pride sounds great in theory and then when it actually rolls around, it’s like New Years Eve on acid.”
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Monday Roundtable: What Kind of Bitch Are You?
I can and will figure out a way to do everything by myself to keep from having to be nice to someone I don’t want to be nice to. I don’t want to be nice to a lot of people.
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Monday Roundtable: Say My Name
“The thing is, if the people in your life respect you, they’ll give you the space to figure out where you’re comfortable. It’s YOUR name. You’re the person who has deal with it every second of your life.”
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Monday Roundtable: Our Most Incorrect Childhood Beliefs
“I thought the Alicia Keys poster on my wall could see me, which I think had something to do with internalized homophobia.”
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Monday Roundtable: How Do We Live with Ourselves?
Everyone has some things that make them hard to live with — like, literally, like in the same apartment as them. Here are ours.
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Monday Roundtable: Very Superstitious, Writing’s on the Wall
Do you pick up pennies for good luck? Does part of you still think stepping on a crack will break your mother’s back? Did you know that apparently “to kill an albatross is to cause bad luck to the ship and all upon it”? Bummer!
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Monday Roundtable: Introverts and Extroverts and Our Myers-Briggs Personality Types
“Apparently INFJs operate more off feeling, and I would say that intuition very much commands my brain/heart ship, so it’s an accurate assessment. How’d this bitch know that I’m soft-spoken though?”
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A-Camp 2018, We Hold You In Our Hearts: The Autostraddle Roundtable
“I feel like this camp everyone really got to be their best, most honest and weirdest selves — for instance, and bear with me, when Sam and Riese and I created an intense trivia experience centered entirely around cults, true crime and murder and not only did people show up but many of the questions were TOO EASY FOR THEM.”
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Monday Roundtable: They Would Never Have Guessed
“People are usually surprised to hear things about my past, like how I was a cheerleader, and in a sorority, and a dancer, and in musical theatre.”
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A+ Roundtable: Our First Time Watching Porn
Here’s all the good, bad and the ugly about our first time viewing porn. Remember VHS tapes? Were we ever so young?
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Roundtable: Our Spookiest Real Ghost Stories
Turn on all the lights in the house and come read about the Winchester Mystery House, haunted cabins, songs playing from beyond the veil, and our deeply unsurprising number of experiences with ghost cats.
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Monday Roundtable: How We Knew We Were In Love
Here’s when we knew deep in our bones we were goners.
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Autostraddle Roundtable: The Lesbian Sex Scene That Changed My Life
“The violins kept getting more and more excited and so did I and by the end of that three-minute scene I was gay.”
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An Autostraddle Extra Feelings Roundtable: When’s The Last Time You Cried?
Tears are rain upon the blinding dust of earth or whatever.
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Roundtable: Our Long and Winding Career Paths
“When I was 10, I wrote a letter to Disney asking them what I should do to become an imagineer.”
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A+ Roundtable: The First Time We Kissed A Girl
“There were all these fairy lights and we drank and were drunk and everything felt warm and easy.”
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Monday Roundtable: I Was Not Myself Those Days
We all have periods of time in our lives when we find ourselves conforming to an identity or a style that isn’t quite… us.
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Are You Ten Years Ago: We Remember Tegan & Sara’s “The Con,” Which Changed Our Lives
“I was nineteen when The Con came out, and boy did I ever feel her in my heart.”