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a soft butch woman with a short haircut is set against a light blue background. text reads: into the A+ advice box

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

2 years ago 41 Comments

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

2 years ago 8 Comments

an angry woman in glasses and a red sweater raises her hands as though to clench them and grinds her teeth. There are lavender expressive marks around her to emphasize her frustration and the text reads "Into the A+ Advice Box"

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Into the A+ Advice Box #72: FAMILY ISSUES

2 years ago 3 Comments

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

Sports
TV Feature

25 Babes With Baseball Bats, Ranked by Lesbianism

2 years ago 28 Comments

two queer people flirt heavily. both appear to be people of color, one with long hair and one with a mohawk. they are smilling. text reads: into the A+ advice box

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

2 years ago 10 Comments

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

3 years ago 12 Comments

The feature for Into the A+ Advice Box shows a stock photo of a woman in the foreground on her cellphone with a blurry mysterious figure of a man stalking her from behind. They are both Asian humans.

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

3 years ago 12 Comments

a very cute image of a dog smiling and looking into a refrigerator with a variety of foods in it. the photo is taken from inside the fridge, facing out so as to have a perspective facing the cute dog.

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A+ Roundtable: What’s In Our Fridges?

3 years ago 21 Comments

two women with long hair kiss in front of a sunrise that is obscuring their faces with bright golden sunbeams. they are mostly in shadow

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

3 years ago 11 Comments

a hairdresser does the long, straight hair of a woman of color in a hair salon. the text on the image reads: into the A+ advice box

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Into the A+ Advice Box #68: HAIR

3 years ago 10 Comments

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

3 years ago 33 Comments

a variety of women models of various races and ethnicities are seen collaged together, writing

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A+ Roundtable: Our Writing Routines

3 years ago 3 Comments

an image featuirng looks from christina ricci, sara ramirez and queen latifah on various red carpets

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A+ Roundtable: Our Celebrity Crushes

3 years ago 20 Comments

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

3 years ago 17 Comments

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?

3 years ago 13 Comments

a nonbinary Black person smiles a small smile against a colorful glass artwork backdrop. text reads Into the A+ Advice Box

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

3 years ago 26 Comments

Against a white background, two peaches emerge side by side from the bottom right corner of the image.

Community

Our Buttholes, Ourselves: An Anal August Roundtable

3 years ago 9 Comments

A watercolor of a turquoise blue sky with dark blue clouds and a white textured page. In front of it are the words "Disability Pride Month Roundtable" in all caps and "care, celebrate, collective, fight" in stamped black lettering.

Community

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

3 years ago 7 Comments

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

3 years ago 5 Comments

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

3 years ago 1 Comment

a globe of the earth is set afire against a black backdrop in this featue image

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A+ Roundtable: Coping with Climate Change

3 years ago 10 Comments

Culture

Here Are Our They/Them Summer Mood Boards

3 years ago 27 Comments

a person leans against a doorframe and cries, her hand up to her lips, a tissue grapsed in her hand. on top of the image reads the text "into the A+ advice box"

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

3 years ago 21 Comments

Anya, Riese, Carmen, Laneia, Kayla, Heather and Nicole are all floating heads behind laptops in this graphic

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

3 years ago 13 Comments

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

3 years ago 6 Comments

Text reads Into the A+ Advice Box in front of a stock photo of two women. A Black woman in a mustard turtleneck leans back on a couch laughing while a white woman with red hair lies in her lap. They touch each other affectionately.

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Into the A+ Advice Box #62: WELLBEING

3 years ago 50 Comments

a hand against a black background gently unfolds, palm up. the palm is illuminated. above the palm floats a single tube of Burt's Bees chapstick

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A+ Roundtable: The Things We Carry

3 years ago 30 Comments

a young lesbian woman stands pensively in front of a bunch of trees. She has her arms folded and is wearing a jean jacket. Text on the image reads "Into the A+ Advice Box"

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

3 years ago 33 Comments

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)

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

3 years ago 24 Comments

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!

3 years ago 2 Comments

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

3 years ago 14 Comments

two women's hands reach for each other across a neon-lit night club background, their fingers intertwining

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A+ Roundtable: Sex With an Ex

3 years ago 9 Comments

A woman leans he head back against a wall, her face furrowed in frustration. On top of the image, text reads: Into the A+ Advice Box

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

3 years ago 44 Comments

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?

3 years ago 88 Comments

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

3 years ago 13 Comments

A mirror image of two open doors, and behind them each an open door, and behind each of those open doors, another. The effect of the image is relatively sinister.

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A+ Roundtable: Our Worst Roommate Experiences

3 years ago 24 Comments

A vintage black and white photo of a woman is set against a black background. The only visible color is red. She is wearing red lipstick and a red patterned dress. She has a black bar across her eyes and is holding a giant, half as big as her, vibrator.

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A+ Roundtable: Our Orgasm Thoughts

3 years ago 13 Comments

In this stock photo, a Black woman looks over a bunch of one and five dollar bills that are half obscuring the lower half of her face. Text reads: Into the A+ Advice Box

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Into the A+ Advice Box #58: Money Problems

3 years ago 35 Comments

A field of neon "open" signs sits in a grid on a black background. Just one of them is replaced with a neon "closed" sign. The image is meant to evoke the sense of 'the world opening up' during the 'push to go back to normal' during the ongoing pandemic.

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

3 years ago 37 Comments

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

3 years ago 22 Comments

A latine queer person with short curly hair that is bleached on top, wearing glasses with light brown skin, and rings on their fingers, smiles birghtly and pours a drink while working at a bar. They are also wearing flannel. The text on the image reads Into the A+ Advice Box

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

3 years ago 16 Comments

A treasure chest with glowing yellow light coming out of it, set against a black background.

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A+ Roundtable: The Keepsakes We Just Can’t Let Go Of

3 years ago 5 Comments

This reads: "Into the A+ Advice Box" Then there are two hands holding a little fluffy unicorn mask

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Into the A+ Advice Box #56: IMPOSTER SYNDROME, SELF-SABOTAGE, and SELF-DOUBT

3 years ago 22 Comments

A vintage looking illustration of a woman screaming on the left, and a jagged-edged speech bubble on the right which says "Mortified" in it. There are various doodles in the background.

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A+ Roundtable: 13 and Mortified

3 years ago 10 Comments

The feature image for our Ask Us Anything Announcement Post! The whole thing has an early high school vibe. In script-like handwriting at the top it says "Ask Us Anything!" followed by "At our 13th birthday AMA. There are photos of each of our team members who are participating inside of polaroid-esque photo frames. These team members are, from left to right: Shelli Nicole, Meg, Casey, Heather, Kayla, Nicole, Carmen, Riese, Vanessa, Laneia, Dani, Em, and Drew. There are also doodles of a heart, an eye, and a ghost!

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Our 13th Birthday A+ AMA is NOW!!! Ask Us Anything!

3 years ago 440 Comments

Feature image for "On Our Chests A+ Roundtable" It has a background of a bunch of doodles that look straight out of a 13-year-old's notebook. There are 2 illustrations, one of a woman playing tennis whose skeleton is visible and one of a woman wearing a bra and smiling softly

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A+ Roundtable: On Our Chests

3 years ago 19 Comments

Two women cuddle and laugh. Text reads: Into the A+ Advice Box

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Into the A+ Advice Box #55: So You’ve Developed Major Feelings for a Friend

3 years ago 8 Comments

Anya, Riese, Carmen, Laneia, Kayla, Heather and Nicole are all floating heads behind laptops in this graphic

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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #40

3 years ago 33 Comments

on top of a black brick background sits an illustrated rendering of the stomach, liver, pancreas, large intestine and small intestine with little lines coming off to indicate excitement

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A+ Roundtable: Gut Feelings

3 years ago 17 Comments

two women sit on opposite ends of a bench, facing away from each other, in conflict. One of them has dyed red hair, is wearing a leather jacket and hoodie and is white. The other has curly natural hair, is wearing a denim shirt and pants and a faded salmon colored jacket. She is Black / mixed race.

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Into the A+ Advice Box #54: FRIENDSHIP DRAMA

3 years ago 4 Comments

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