Results for: no fucks to give
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Golden Animals in Manland: The Strange Place Queer Women Occupy in Bushwork
Bushwork — work done in the backcountry, often off-grid — offers a kind of freedom difficult to find in modern life. It is also a culture steeped in toxic masculinity in which queer women do not have a place.
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The Land Dykes Of Southern Oregon Saved My Life
In the summer of 2014 I was broken. Living in community with my queer elders put me back together.
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Toward an Applicable Theory of Just Not
On refusal, rest, and resistance.
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Finding My Innate Rage, Inner Peace and Worship in Osun
Somewhere at the back of my mind, I’d convinced myself that attempting to pull my slightly overweight and totally out of shape ass across the seven levels that made up the gigantic waterfall was an impossible dream…
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Going Outside with Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
Maybe if trans women can redefine what it means to be close to nature we can also redefine what it means to be close to each other.
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PHOTOESSAY: Merqueen of the Springs
Dive into this fantasy based world where the merqueen of the springs spreads her wings and takes up space.
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The Gayest Shit I’ve Ever Done in the Great Outdoors
“When was the last time you saw a straight person in a bog? That’s what I thought.”
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This Year Is Gonna Be a Good One: Birthday Diaries, 2001-2018
17 years of birthday diary entries.
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Perfectionism and the Art of Rock Climbing
As a perfectionist, I’ll always be more comfortable sharing my shiny conclusions than my messy processes. And the best thing about climbing, for me, is that it’s pure process.
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Chasing Amy
Birthdays are weird when you have a dead mom.
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Dykes Rule the Night
Lesbian bars may be dying, but lesbian nightlife is more alive than ever
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Monday Roundtable: Our Saturn Returns
Your late 20s/early 30s are thought by many to mark your Saturn Return, when Saturn circles back around to the placement it was in when you were born, and generally fucks everything up. Here’s how that went for us!
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Who Do You Meet On the Greyhound?
A teen dyke wanders around the country in the early 2000’s, armed with an Ameripass and a journal.
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Unlikely Hikers: Creating Space For Everyone On The Trail, One Group Hike At A Time
“I can’t explain how unreal it felt to be able to let my guard down with a big group of strangers on a hike.”
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The ‘M’ Word
Every birthday after I admitted to myself that I am queer has been a celebration of that fact. A celebration that I listened to myself, that I am not currently trapped in a marriage I don’t want, a marriage slowly draining me of life and hope.
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Nancy Meyers But Make It Gay: Wearing a Chunky Beach Sweater When Your Life Is Falling Apart
Sometimes you just have to let out your inner Connecticut divorcée on a beach.
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Monday Roundtable: Sign of the Times
Nothing stays the same forever, and that includes our bods; here’s the Autostraddle team talking about how they’ve noticed their bodies aging and what that’s like.
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On Shopping in Public
“Here I am, gaslighting myself, and all I want to do is buy some clothes.”
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Monday Roundtable: What’s Your Age Again?
“I used to lie about my age to get deals off the kids’ menu. Like, why would we pay an extra five dollars when we all know I’m about to get chicken tenders and it’s only an appetizer if I’m over twelve??”
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What If This Was a Celebration
“I knew if I could exert most of my energy in the painful icy parts of life, I could certainly make my way back to celebrating the good.”