Queering the Jewish Holidays: How I Celebrate Passover
In a couple of weeks I’m hosting my very first queer Seder. Let’s talk about how we celebrate Passover!
Valentine’s Day Cards For Queer Women, Pt. 2
Send a little cutie to your cutie.
Kristen Kish’s New Cookbook Helped Me Wine and Dine My Valentine and So Can You
“I almost fainted when I tasted it. Do I really need to say more? Go get this book, make everything in it, and proudly display your new membership to the Kristen Kish fan club this Valentine’s Day.”
Valentine’s Day Sex Toy Gift Guide For Even Hotter Lesbian Sex, If You Can Believe It
Sometimes Valentine’s Day is a patriarchal capitalist scam and sometimes you just want to eat some candy hearts and buy balloons and make out and unironically get into it.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD & ROUNDTABLE: It’s Gonna Be A Happy New Year!
We’re over New Year’s resolutions – here’s what we’re looking forward to in 2018. What about you?
POST-HOLIDAY MERCH SALE: 20% Off Everything In the Autostraddle Store
You deserve it.
OPEN THREAD: Another Year, Another Christmakwanzakah
Can we just put on holiday themed pajamas, sit by the fire place, and open gifts together? The gift can be a conversation or a hug or a puppy, I’m not picky.
Holiday Gift Guide: Last Minute Subscription Boxes for Last Minute Babes
If you’re a last minute giver, give the gift that keeps on giving with these groovy subscriptions!
Four Things We Can All Learn from Queering Kwanzaa
Spend the last days of the year with queer community celebrating Kwanzaa this year.
Holiday Gift Guide: For the Queers in the Kitchen
It would be the sweetest thing to gift your culinarily skilled loved ones with new swag for their kitchen.
Holigay Gift Guide: New Year, New You!
Two Things: First, I want nothing more than for you and your loved ones to start off 2018 being your best selves. Second, I checked this list. I checked it twice. Everything on it can still be delivered by December 25th (in case you are as much of a procrastinator as I am. No judgement! 2017 was hard, after all.)
The Top 11 Gayest Christmas Songs
Ring-a-ling-a-ling-a-#dingdong-ding!
Lavender Menace Gift Guide: For Passionate Feminist Lesbians and Herstorical Queers
Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. Happy holidays!
Holigay Gift Guide: Perfect Presents for Sporty Queers and Gym Rat Gays
’Tis almost the season for gift-giving! Here are some suggestions for the fitness-focused cuties in your life. Happy shopping, and enjoy the benefit of all those post-exercise endorphins!
Holigay Gift Guide: Take a Picture, It’ll Last Longer
I have a fear that all we as a people are going to have in 20 years are lost phone photos and a terrifying facebook/tumblr archive SO here are some things to help you and yours document whatever is important to you right now.
Holigay Gift Guide: The Hottest Hot Takes of All
Jem and the Holograms (2015) is a great movie and these are great gifts.
Holigay Gift Guide: Advice for My Mother on What Flannel to Buy My Butch Fiancée
“Can you sneak into her closet and take a pic of the ones she has (just side on hanging up is fine).”
Holigay Gift Guide: Haunted Dolls For Your Spooky Loved Ones
Also, look, I’m a POC, I don’t mess around with haunted dolls, but maybe you do.
Gifts To Help You Win at Dirty Santa (Which, Yes, Is a Competition)
The only thing standing between you and that sweet, thrilling thrum of victory is finding the perfect ridiculous gift.
Femme Brûlée: Dark Chocolate Candy Cane Brownies
Brownies are fudgey and cakey, good warm or cold, you can put basically anything in them, they travel nicely, and go with everything from coffee to ice cream to emotional breakdowns when your party ends and you see all the cleaning that has to be done and need edible support. Perfect.