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A+ Roundtable: Our Favorite Sex Toys

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Into the A+ Advice Box #76: JEALOUSY AND ENVY

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A+ Roundtable: That Could Be a Chart

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Into the A+ Advice Box #75: Is It Over?

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What Brought You Joy This Year?

against a cyber spacey background, a woman puffs up her cheeks in a look of awkwardness and boredom while holding a glass of wine and wearing sparkly holiday attire

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A+ Roundtable: Times That Bringing a Partner (or Yourself) Home for the Holigays Got Awkard

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A+ Roundtable: What We Love and Hate About Where We Live

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Into the A+ Advice Box #74: HOLIGAY ADVICE

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Our Hottest Takes About 2022 LGBTQ+ TV and Film

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Into the A+ Advice Box #73: Your Boyfriend Doesn’t Like Your Soft Butch Haircut

A green bag that says PROTECT BLACK PEOPLE, a trio of Fishwife tinned fish, a white Nike sneaker with a black check, two layering gold necklaces, House of Psychotic Women, a black stand mixer, and a woman wearing a shiny red lingerie set

Holigays

Hi Gay! It’s Time for Autostraddle’s Ultimate Team Holigay Gift Guide 2022

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Into the A+ Advice Box #72: FAMILY ISSUES

Six babes with baseball bats from this list. Top, L to R: Beyonce, Renee Montoya, Harley Quinn. Bottom, L to R: Waverly Earp, Jo DeLuca, Cristina Yang

25 Babes With Baseball Bats, Ranked by Lesbianism

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Into the A+ Advice Box #71: So You Keep Falling For Your Friends

a queer couple holds each other, a more masc person with short hair kissing a femme person on the street

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Into the A+ Advice Box #70: LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIPS

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Into the A+ Advice Box #69: What If You Have a Stalker?

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A+ Roundtable: What’s In Our Fridges?

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A+ Roundtable: Our First Times Having “Queer” Sex

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Into the A+ Advice Box #68: HAIR

two queer femmes sit on a bed, looking like they are in the aftermath of a fight or in a breakup. they both have dark hair and bangs. One of them has tattoos. Across the image, text reads Into the A+ Advice Box

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Into the A+ Advice Box #67: Surviving the End of a 9-Year Relationship

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A+ Roundtable: Our Writing Routines

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A+ Roundtable: Our Celebrity Crushes

two white lesbians with short, queer haircuts, get ready in front of a bathroom mirror in the morning. they are smiling and happy

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Into the A+ Advice Box #66: SKINCARE

Photo 1: Anya Richkind as a young child in a Red Sox uniform. Photo 2: Katie Reilly as a young child holding a bat. Photo 3: Heather Hogan as a young child holding a bat in a Blue Angels uniform. Photo 4: shea wesley martin as a young child holding a bat. Photo 5: Stef Rubino as a young child holding a baseball bat. Photo 6: Drew Gregory as a young child on the baseball diamond holding a glove.

Sports

Turns Out a Lot of the Autostraddle Team Played Softball and Baseball — WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED?

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Into the A+ Advice Box #65: So You Think You Might Be Gender Fluid

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Community

Our Buttholes, Ourselves: An Anal August Roundtable

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Community

Disability Pride Month 2022 Roundtable: Care, Celebrate, Collective, Fight

Against a black backdrop are collaged two crossed tennis rackets, with a pair of sneakers hovering above them. Each corner is occupied by a basketball or a soccer ball, two of each.

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A+ Roundtable: Our Sports Stories

an interracial lesbian couple gets into a verbal fight in a kitchen. a redheaded white woman speaks in an exasperated and angry manner. A Black woman with long gold braids puts her palm to her forehead and looks down. On top of the image reads the text: Into the A+ Advice Box.

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Into the A+ Advice Box #64: BREAKING UP

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A+ Roundtable: Coping with Climate Change

Culture

Here Are Our They/Them Summer Mood Boards

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Into the A+ Advice Box #63: What If Other People Think You’re “A Lot”?

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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #42

Roundtable: Enemies - an Angry Sphynx or hairless cat glowers at the viewer against a black background

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A+ Roundtable: Dealing With Our Enemies

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Into the A+ Advice Box #62: WELLBEING

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A+ Roundtable: The Things We Carry

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Into the A+ Advice Box #61: When Should a Person Cut Off Given Family?

UVALDE, TEXAS - MAY 26: A memorial is seen surrounding the Robb Elementary School sign following the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 26, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas. According to reports, 19 students and 2 adults were killed, with the gunman fatally shot by law enforcement. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

“I’m Angry and Sad and Scared and I Know Nothing is Going to Change”

Crissa sits on the floor, in front of her burnt orange leather sofa, with her mouth agape. She's wearing a pair of overalls, a tie-dyed shirt and a denim bucket hat.

TV Reviews

“The Circle” Is Here With Bisexual Chaos — and Spice Girls!

two femmes, one who has lighter skin and one who has medium brown skin, both with long balck hair, are wearing comfortable but lacy lingerie and spooning in bed, smiling warmly and playfully.

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Into the A+ Advice Box #60: SEX

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A+ Roundtable: Sex With an Ex

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Into the A+ Advice Box #59: You Love Her But There’s No Passion

Two mothers hold and laugh with their child. The mother on the left is Black and wearing a cap, glasses and black shirt with hair in long locs. The mother on the right is white with dyed strawberry hair. The child is a mixed-race toddler with curly dark brown hair.

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A+ Roundtable: Do We Have Kids? Do We Want to Have Kids?

In a collage against a pink background, left to right in the back row: Cheryl Dunye playing with her hat, Vanessa Friedman hugging friends, Audre Lorde in black and white, and Natalie Diaz smirking at the camera. Front row, left to right: Shelli Nicole as a little girl on picture day, Heather Hogan smiling in a tie, Malinda Lo looking directly into camera with an intense gaze, and Kayla Kumari taking a selfie with her phone. All of these photos are highlighted with background shadows in the color of the lesbian pride flag.

Community

Lesbian Visibility Week 2022: Where We Look For Lesbianspiration

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A+ Roundtable: Our Worst Roommate Experiences

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A+ Roundtable: Our Orgasm Thoughts

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Into the A+ Advice Box #58: Money Problems

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A+ Roundtable: Dealing With the Push To ‘Go Back to Normal’

Eight movies featured in this list: Turning Red, Brave, Tangled, Moana, Frozen, Mulan, The Incredibles, Dumbo

Movie Lists

Disney/Pixar Movies, Ranked by Mommy Issues

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Into the A+ Advice Box #57: Can You Ask Someone Out While They’re Working?

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