Nico Hall, Author at Autostraddle

Nico Hall

A+ & Fundraising Director

Joined A-Team: November 2019

Articles written: 179

Nico Hall's Featured Posts on Autostraddle

That Time I Binged Freaks and Geeks While My Stalker Ex Held Me Captive

Between Orbits: Two Manipulators, Pulled Out of Abuse and Back

Pay Attention to the Light Source

15 Things I Drank in My Year of Not Drinking

At One Point It Saved My Sanity

9 Holes in My Haunted House, Ranked by Lesbianism

All Posts on Autostraddle

Two white queer humans with tattoos and short brunette hair, one in a pixie cut and one with bangs, caress and smile with each other in bed.

The Cozy Under-The-Covers Sex You’re Having This Fall, According to Your Zodiac Sign

Mal from the Ultimatum Queer Love sits next to a door, The Ultimatum Queer Love Season Two is casting now, and there is a stick figure drawn over the image that says "this could be you"

TV News & Trailers

Want to Break Up on TV? Ultimatum: Queer Love Season Two Is Casting!

Untethered: Vol. 6. A glass of cranberry juice against a lime green background with yellow-green blobs.

First Person

Untethered: In Pursuit of Abject Sluttiness

Carmen, a Black woman with glasses, and Nico, a white brunette genderqueer person also with glasses, are smiling for a camera over a table with two laptops open.

Identity

Bisexuality, Queerness, Labels, Perception: A Conversation Between the EIC and the HBIC

a Victorian couple walking on a cobblestone path

Comedy

Weird Things the Victorians Did, Ranked by Bisexuality

UNTETHERED: A sealed moving box against a neon blue background with neon green blobs

Untethered: On Miss Havisham-Style Decision-Making

A makeshift memorial for environmental activist Manuel Teran, who was deadly assaulted by law enforcement during a raid to clear the construction site of a police training facility that activists have nicknamed "Cop City" near Atlanta, Georgia on February 6, 2023.

Politics + Activism

61 People Allegedly Associated with the Stop Cop City Movement Indicted on RICO Charges

Environmental activists hold a rally and a march through the Atlanta Forest, a preserved forest Atlanta that is scheduled to be developed as a police training center, March 4, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. Intent upon stopping the building of what they have called cop city, the environmentalists were evicted from the forest in January, resulting in the killing by police of Manuel Teran, a young activist and medic.

Politics + Activism

“We Don’t Want To Live in a Police State”: Stop Cop City Still Needs Your Help

two creepy twins with weird hair contort on the ground in this black and white photo

Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

Questionable Life Choices You Can Make During Tomorrow’s Blue Supermoon

UNTETHERED: VOL. 4 featuring a plate of red jello and yellow and pink blobs

First Person

Untethered: The Gelatinous Descent

a Black stud with tattoos wears a black sports bra and has outstretched arms while looking at the camera

Identity

Founder Esther Godoy on the Evolution of Butch Is Not a Dirty Word

an ice filled lemonade with a straw against a blobby background and the words UNTETHERED VOL. 3

Untethered: In Pittsburgh Everyone Knows Everyone and I’m Sure I Do Too

a transmasc person of Asian descent takes a selfie while laying on a couch

Dating

You Need Help: I’m Afraid of Feeling Like Less of a Trans Man for Not Dating Men

Ken (Ryan Gosling, in the Barbie movie) wears dark sunglasses and a white fur coat, open with his chest exposed and a silver chain. He looks smugly at Barbie.

Can You Feel the Kenergy?

A pink sky with sparkles and zodiac signs, floating in the sky are the following Barbie characters: Margot Robbie as Stereotypical Barbie, America Ferrera as Gloia, Issa Rae as President Barbie, Michael Cena as Allan, Hari Nef as Doctor Barbie, and Kate McKinnon as President Barbie

Barbie-ology: Your “Barbie” Character, According to Your Zodiac Sign

Untethered vol. 2 against a blobby yellow and pink neon background with a giant raspberry

First Person

Untethered: Turning Dancing, D&D, and Body Piercings Into Friendships

A+ Member Sale - 40% off everything in the autostraddle store - feature image shows both Viv and Kayla modeling Autostraddle gear, specifically the Gay Chaos tank and the Build Queer Futures tee

A+

A+ Members Get 40% Off For Our Hot Summer Sale in the Autostraddle Store!

a group of coworkers of various genders and gender expressions sits around a table. a speech bubble reads "this nonbinary data is fascinating"

Data Party! Insights into Nonbinary Readers from the 2022 Reader Survey

three athletes lift weights against the background of a nonbinary pride flag

Getting Strong: A Conversation Between Two Nonbinary Humans About Weight Lifting

against a blobby background, a single pink skate floats. across it, in rough script, reads: Untethered: Vol 1

Breakups

Untethered: After a Breakup, Spinning Out of Control (Literally)

Samantha Allen, a blonde white woman, in a black and white photo, is superimposed over the cover of her book which is repeated three times. the book is patricia wants to cuddle and it has a sasquatch arm on it holding a tiny woman doing her makeup

A+

The A+ Book Club Talked with Samantha Allen About the Symbolism of Sasquatches, “The Bachelor” Gossip and More!

A feature made up of the author's photo in between two cover images of Patricia Wants To Cuddle by Samantha Allen which features a furry arm with painted red nails holding a white woman with blonde hair, sun hat, and sunglasses who is taking a selfie. The author's photo shows Samantha a white, blonde woman in black and white. she is standing in front of a tangle of tree roots and smiling

RIGHT NOW! Log Onto Discord to Chat With Samantha Allen

A feature made up of the author's photo in between two cover images of Patricia Wants To Cuddle by Samantha Allen which features a furry arm with painted red nails holding a white woman with blonde hair, sun hat, and sunglasses who is taking a selfie. The author's photo shows Samantha a white, blonde woman in black and white. she is standing in front of a tangle of tree roots and smiling

Meet-Ups / Events

TOMORROW! A+ Book Club Chats “Patricia Wants to Cuddle” with Samantha Allen

four friends celebrating gay Pride and laughing, surrounded by shiny lips, a blue boombox, an X balloon, and a disco ball

How Is Your Zodiac Sign Celebrating Pride This Year?

A+

The A+ Book Club Talked Tarot Reversals, Pop Culture Witches and More with Meg Jones Wall

A+

HAPPENING NOW: A+ Book Club for “Finding the Fool” with Meg Jones Wall

A feature made up of the author's photo in between two cover images of Patricia Wants To Cuddle by Samantha Allen which features a furry arm with painted red nails holding a white woman with blonde hair, sun hat, and sunglasses who is taking a selfie. The author's photo shows Samantha a white, blonde woman in black and white. she is standing in front of a tangle of tree roots and smiling

Meet-Ups / Events

A+ Read a Fucking Book Club is Talking “Patricia Wants to Cuddle” with Samantha Allen

a pin that says ALL VAMPIRES ARE GAY, a single black doc marten boot, an array of spiked goth jewelry including a cuff, a spiked choker necklace, black cherries, and a spiky leather jacket. a femme in a black sheer buttondown shirt, a masc with bleached hair in a black open leathery box-fit short sleeve buttondown and black shorts with white athletic socks and black slides, a femme with short choppy black hair in a black tight strapless bodysuit with a leather look, and a masc in a black cropped tee with black pants. everyone has vampire fangs with blood dripping from them.

Comedy

Caught Dead: Style Tips for Nonbinary Vampires

an ms paint depiction of nico in three different portraits. in one they have blonde hair and are wearing a loud hawaiian shirt. in another they have pink hair and are wearing a collared shirt and a single dangly earring. in a third one they have brown hair and are wearing a sweater and are smiling with their arm up which also shows their tattoo sleeve. they are white and wear glasses and their hair is always cut in the same style with the sides shaved. money rains down in the background.

Thank You Thank You Thank You – Today Is Our Last Day of the Fundraising Drive

Politics + Activism

Conservatives Will Try to Paint Trans People as Violent Extremists, We Cannot Let Them

a gorgeous layout of the Finding the Fool book which is a gradient blue to purple with moon phases on it, set against a background of color coordinating tarot cards and crystals

Meg Jones Wall on Queer, Expansive Tarot

against a spooky backdrop of winter trees, the words in collegiate yellow font read: 2 yellowjackets watch-alongs

TONIGHT! Watch the Yellowjackets Premiere With Us

a rainbow background covered in a chaotic amalgamation of ms paint style dogs and cats and chicks with a cat sleeping on an open laptop that is open to the autostraddle website

Straddleverse

Together, How Far Can We Go?

five femmes are hanging out at a gorgeously set table, smiling and taking a group selfie

Last Chance to Sign Up for In-Person Meetups: Chicago, Columbus, Orlando and Pittsburgh!

A+

The March 2023 A+ Pop-Up Discord is OPEN

a collage of the various fundraiser perks items along with cartoony illustrations of various autostraddle pets

Straddleverse

Save an Indie Queer Media Site, Get Cool Perks for Hot Gays

against a background of MS paint style autostraddle animals including Carol and an open laptop with a cat lying on it is a bunch of cartoon money. In a rainbow gradient, the words The Autostraddle Fundraiser 2023 are set large and centered

Straddleverse

We Need You To Buy Us Some Time Before Time Runs Out

a chaotic image with an ms paint style cat and two dogs on it - including carol. the cat is heather's cat dobby. there is a rainbow bar chart, illustrations of money, and several other mathematical looking charts.

Straddleverse

Yes, Fundraising Is Part of Our Business Model: Here’s Why

against a spooky backdrop of winter trees, the words in collegiate yellow font read: 2 yellowjackets watch-alongs

Meet-Ups / Events

TWO Yellowjackets Watch Alongs for A+ Members!

Meet-Ups / Events

A+ Book Club for Finding the Fool: A Tarot Journey to Radical Transformation

a collage of a photo of M crane wearing a collared shirt and smiling. they have long brown hair. The cover of I KEEP MY EXOSKELETONS TO MYSELF is to their left and features a warbly shadow on it. There is a small graphic of text message speech bubbles off to the right

A+

M. Crane Chatted with the A+ Book Club About Tragic Endings, Sports and Future Projects

five cans of retro Britney Spears Diet Coke against a purple and gray fuzzy background

First Person

On 2018’s Britney Spears Diet Pepsi Cans and the Most Intense Gaslighting of My Career

The book matchmaking in the Archive: 19 Conversations with the Dead and 3 Encounters with Ghosts

LGBT Book Reviews

“Matchmaking in the Archive” Connects Today’s Artists and Queer Ancestors

A woman looks on in delight and awe at the letters "AMA" in a glowing neon heart. they are set against a gradient pink and blue background with a cupcake on it. a glowing neon triangle and plus sign are in the bottom right corner

Meet-Ups / Events

Get Pumped: Our 14th Birthday A+ Ask-Us-Anything is on March 7th!

M. Crane is between two images of their book cover. The book cover is a simple plane of blue with a rippling human shadow on the cover and the title text I KEEP MY EXOSKELETONS TO MYSELF layered on top. M. Crane is smiling. They have long brown hair, tan skin, and are wearing a colorful button up shirt.

Right Now – A+ Read a Fucking Book Club: I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

Photo 1: an old white guy wizard in a white outfit gestures while lightning strikes behind him. Photo 2: a screencap of howl lying depressively on a brocade pillow. he is an anime guy with dark hair and an earring. Photo 3: a photo of a piece of wizard art on my sister's wall that depicts a wizard in a brown robe with long white beard sitting in a city apartment kitchen holding a beer with chips spilled at the bottom of his feet. Photo 4: a screen shot of merlin in disney's the sword and the stone dancing around in his vacation outfit which is a red baseball cap, rainbow tee shirt, florida shorts, and converse sneakers. he is giddily dancing. Photo 5: an image of Orko who wears a red hat and robe and purple scarf. his blue hands and ears are the only body parts visible and his glowing yellow eyes peer out from darkness. Photo 6: a purple wizard wearing a studded red outfit and cap reaches out toward the viewer. he has sharp nails and evil orange eyes and sharp teeth

Comedy

19 Wizards Ranked by How Well They Match My Gender Feelings

M. Crane is between two images of their book cover. The book cover is a simple plane of blue with a rippling human shadow on the cover and the title text I KEEP MY EXOSKELETONS TO MYSELF layered on top. M. Crane is smiling. They have long brown hair, tan skin, and are wearing a colorful button up shirt.

Literature

A+ Read a Fucking Book Club: I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

A kaleidoscope esque mirrored image of Sadie and Nico in N 95 masks and backwards hats, with wide eyes standing on ladders beneath a ceiling full of holes exposing the lathe behind the plaster. the vibe is chaotic.

Homo Reno: 13 Tips for Keeping Your 5 Year Queer Relationship Intact While Renovating the House You Live In

Sweetlust by Asja Bakić features a crashing wave in seafoam and pink shades

LGBT Book Reviews

Speculative Short Fiction Collection “Sweetlust” Disturbs and Delights

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