Results for: love is a lie
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You Oughta Know: The Letters to Our Exes We Won’t Send
But we will show you!
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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 101: February 2023
Can we open it with “The Paris Review can blow us” and then just like…not explain?
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Into the A+ Advice Box #35: Summer 2021 Dating Edition!
For the first themed A+ Advice Box in our new themed series, you asked questions about dating yourself after having a kid, dating your partner after lockdown, using dating apps when you are tired of screens in general, getting into casual dating, dating again after time periods ranging from 7 months to 4 years, whether love is a lie, and more!
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Editor’s Notes: Divorce Week
Being engaged, planning a wedding, being a newlywed — all welcome topics of conversation! Divorce? Not so much!Â
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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 93: June 2022
“i just think patty melt IS a gender tbh”
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 86, November 2021
What terrible advice would you give your 16-year-old self just to see what kind of hell you could unleash on the world?
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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #45
“Goblincore is in and we’re embracing being the spooky cryptid who lives in the swamp! (Dewy skin amirite? Clammy even).”
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 76, January 2021
That’s actually the cutest thing i’ve seen since that video last week of the puppy falling asleep on the goose.
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Anonymous Sex Diary: Happy Bisexual Awareness Week
“My friend in the red shirt says that she thinks you’re really attractive.” A bisexual takes us through a week of polyamorous dating, sex and a little bit of drama.
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Anonymous Sex Diary: She Wants More
“My partner and I have an open relationship. While we used to be really honest about things, when I met someone I actually liked, E, they decided they didnt want to know about it.”
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Into the A+ Advice Box #93: How Can You Tell If She Has A Crush On You?
How do you build chosen family? Should you consider pursuing romantic connection when your friends have become more distant? And do we have ideas for your anniversary celebration? (We do!)
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Anonymous Sex Diary: A Couple Rekindles Their Sex Life with “Intimacy Boot Camp”
We’re both trying to avoid the lesbian bed death trope, hoping to be remembered in history as lovers, not “really good friends.”
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 77, February 2021
“Unless one of you all sent me a mesh shirt that said Pizza Slut???”
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Love In A Sinking City: A Queer Timeline
“Today I am 28. It is 2023. In Nigeria, it is illegal to do the things I did freely at the beaches in Toronto; watch my queer friends kiss under the eyes of a cloudy sun, hold hands with a woman on a rain-less night intoxicated by wine and wishfulness. I lie to a taxi driver, tell him that I have a fiancé. I show him a picture, a man. My cousin doesn’t know how often his image has saved me from lecherous men. Here, fiction can be a raft in a sea…”
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Anonymous Sex Diary: Shibari and Stolen Privacy
“I’m not in a place where coming out to my family is a reasonable option. Fortunately, I have a husband who is more than happy to cover me during my prolonged phone conversations with other partners.”
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Into the A+ Advice Box #91: Why Do Your Dates Always Turn Into “Just Friends”?
How social media is a lie, how to dress for a Catholic wedding, and is that girl who’s currently in a relationship into you?
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Lying’s the Most Fun a Girl Can Have
“I identified as a heterosexually-inclined bisexual when I started giving hand jobs for money, and I left more or less a lesbian. It wasn’t the only factor in that transformation, but boy was it a major one.”
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Things I’ve Never Asked My Girlfriend About Wildflowers, Baby Names and Time Travel
“Why do you think it took us so long to get together as girlfriends considering we’ve been friends for almost a decade?”
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A+ Sex Diary: So This Is What It’s Like To Live With Your Girlfriend
“When we get home I beg to go down on her — I know you’re tired, I say, I know it’s a work night, but please…”
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The Price of Perfectionism: Chronic Illness, Unemployment, and Starting Over
“I could start a Youtube channel or a blog about disability rights and monetize it. FUCK. I don’t know how to turn it off.”