Instead of opening up these First Four match-ups to the whole wide web, as we usually do, we’re going to start here… with the members who power this community year-round.
Our fingers are ready! (To answer your questions!)
What do you call someone who witnesses a robbery at the Apple store?
“Christina is, energetically, equal parts over-the-top gay man and elder straight woman.”
Can we open it with “The Paris Review can blow us” and then just like…not explain?
Join us for a Q&A with author M. Crane! Right now! See you there?
“You and I are family.”
What type of music is scary for birthday balloons?
I don’t know who needs to hear this today, but I dreamed that the New York Times put a paper grocery bag of 9 kittens on every doorstep to promote subscriptions.
The vibes are So Off.
I saw a microbiologist yesterday.
Should you forgive an abusive parent? What should you do with a conflict between your ex girlfriend and a friend? And more!
In which we talk for a weirdly long time about who does laundry but also Yellowjackets, why a punk cover of “Mambo Italiano” is “our song,” and our sex drives.
How do you make holy water?
Writing Yourself Home is a special generative workshop for writers of all ages that honors the complexities of what constitutes “home.”
We had a kickball game and I said, “if we win, we can talk about what this is. And if we lose, then we continue hooking up and we don’t have to talk about it.”
I recently went to the “World’s Tiniest Wind Turbine” exhibit.
Plus self-harm scars and dating, crushing hard on your married coworker, learning to celebrate yourself and more!
“what if autostraddle just became a mariah carey fansite”
Head’s up! There’s a hell of an editor’s note in here, so gird those loins.