Results for: queer parenting
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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: Reflections on Being 19 From 2019
“I hadn’t yet come to terms with being a lesbian, so I also spent a lot of time making excuses not to have sex.”
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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.”
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Monday Roundtable: Since You’ve Been Gone
These are the things that are gone from our lives now but we still think about and miss all the time.
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A+ Roundtable: Forgiven but Not Forgotten
Forgiveness may be an attribute of the strong, but we also have the memory of an elephant.
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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: The First Gay and Trans People We Knew
“Sipping coffee in their sunny drenched kitchen was the first time I really saw myself. I could imagine it. I could see how I could be gay and still… be me.”
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Monday Roundtable: Our First Protests
What did we first take to the streets about?
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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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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: The Real and Fictional Couples Who Inspired Our Very First Relationship Goals
Whether we saw them on screen or in real life, we took notice of these dynamic couples and their undeniable chemistry and love.
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Monday Roundtable And New Year Open Thread: Let’s Shape 2019 With Our Words
Tomorrow is a brand new year! Here are the words we’re thinking about when we think about 2019. Tell us the words you’re claiming in the new year! Tell us what you’re doing for New Year’s Eve! Tell us all your hopes and dreams! Tell us everything! We love you! Happy New Year!
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A+ Roundtable: Internalized Homophobia and Other Endearing Forms of Low-Key Self-Hatred
Unpacking internalized homophobia (and lesbophobia, and biphobia, and transphobia, and misogyny, and MORE) is hard, but for you we did our best!
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Monday Roundtable: Hey Bad Spender
“I think I’m willing to do this because I’m constantly aware that death awaits us all and I’m more inclined to want to heighten an experience if I can.”
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Monday Roundtable: Our First Online Communities
“I also spent some time writing an intentionally awful Snape/Dobby/Giant Squid love triangle short story because sometimes you have to make your own fun.”
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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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A+ Roundtable: The Sex We Just Can’t Get Into
Sex: it’s complicated! Some people like some things and other people like other things and some people love things other people do not like at all!
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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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Monday Roundtable: Feels Like the First Time
Here are first time experiences that seem mundane to everyone else but were truly special for us.
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Monday Roundtable: What Reality Show/Game Show Would You Destroy?
“Does anyone at the CIA who is for sure reading this want to hire me?”