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Did You Dress Up This Halloween? Send Us Photos For A Community Gallery!

Did you dress up for Halloween this year? Send me a picture of yourself in costume so I can put together the family photo album of our queer dress up dreams!

Vanessa October 31, 2017 15 Comments
Halloween Straddleverse

FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: ‘Tis the Season to Be Spooky

It’s Friday, the week is winding down and we’re headed into one of the most important times of the gay holiday calendar: the weekend closest to Halloween.

Rachel October 20, 2017 58 Comments
Community Holigays

Bury Your Gays Merch Alert: Dead Lesbian Society Enamel Pins

Immortality, my darlings.

Heather Hogan December 7, 2016 51 Comments
Holigays Merch! Black Scissoring Tee, You Do You Shirts in Heather Grey and Blue, Queer Deer Tee, Enamel Pins (High Femme, Bi Bi Bi, Hard Femme, They/Them and She/Her Pronoun Pins) and the Safe Space Black Fleece Sweater!
Community Holigays

Holiday Merch Alert: Safe Space Sweatshirts, Throwback Tees, New Enamel Pins and MORE!

We’re bringing back some old favorites in new colors, some fresh tees and sweaters, and a ton of colorful enamel pins to decorate yourself with! Get in here!

Sarah December 6, 2016 52 Comments
Christmas Community

Come Gather, All Ye Gentlequeers: It’s Autostraddle Holigay Meet-Up Season!

I am determined to find joy and then somehow figure out how to make it contagious in an attempt to heal the world! I’m also here to enlist you in said mission by encouraging you all to get into the spirit and host some holigay meet-ups!

Carmen November 30, 2016 89 Comments
Community Travel

Get Out There: Ramble On, ‘Straddlers

I really hope that these challenges have helped inspire you to love your city and to realize that it’s a growing, ever-changing location.

Melissa Langley January 8, 2016 5 Comments
Community Holigays

POST-HOLIDAY AUTOSTRADDLE MERCH SALE BLOWOUT! TREAT YOURSELF!

EVERYTHING IS ON SALE! Discounts of 20% – 60% store-wide! We’ve got ‘zines, flasks, sweatshirts, hoodies, t-shirts, crop tops and so much more!

Riese December 26, 2015 5 Comments
Community Travel

Get Out There: Looking for Brunch, Coffee, and Queers In All the Right Places

“The drinks were flowing, the fake snow machine was blowing and I was giving my dollars away for a good cause. All was right in the world.”

Melissa Langley December 17, 2015 2 Comments
Community Thanksgiving

100 Things Autostraddle Staffers Are Thankful For This Year

“Autostraddle commenters! Autostraddle readers! THE PERSON LOOKING AT THIS RIGHT NOW, BASICALLY. Y’all are our lifeblood, and I love each and every one of you.”

the team November 26, 2015 33 Comments
Community Travel

Get Out There: Taking Local Transit To Tex-Mex Town

I checked out Austin’s brand-spankin’ new local transit system and then ate some breakfast tacos. What’d y’all get to exploring in the last two weeks?

Melissa Langley November 19, 2015 12 Comments
Community Travel

Get Out There: From Local Parks to Local Politics

A bunch of us went out over the last two weeks to see historic places and explore local nature. Come see what happened when we #GotOutThere and find out what challenges we’re doing next!

Melissa Langley November 5, 2015 8 Comments
Halloween Straddleverse

Friday Open Thread: IT’S HALLOWEEN

I will carve a pumpkin, dammit.

A.E. Osworth October 30, 2015 123 Comments
Community Travel

Get Out There: Let’s Explore The Heck Out of The Places We Live

I’m back in Austin after a few good years spent abroad, and I’m making it my mission to see adventure in my everyday life. I want to find people here who are my people, and get to know my city — and I’m challenging all of you to join me!

Melissa Langley October 22, 2015 59 Comments
Parenting & Family Straddleverse

Call For Submissions: Brand New Queer Mamas

We’re looking for a columnist who’s a new mom and wants to write about that experience right here! RIGHT HERE ON THIS WEBSITE.

the team February 4, 2015 111 Comments
Community Holigays

New Year’s OPEN THREAD 2014: Braver / Bolder Edition

Here’s how we’re gonna be brave and bold in the new year. What about you?

the team December 31, 2013 77 Comments
Christmas Straddleverse

Here for the Holigays: Brand New “You Do You” Zip-Up Hoodies

This is the softest comfiest hoodie in the whole world!

Alex December 13, 2013 37 Comments
Christmas Community

New Autostraddle Merch for the 2013 Holigay Season: Hoodies and Flasks

New merch alert! We’ve got soft-as-hell A-Camp pullover hoodies and… wait for it… YOU DO YOU FLASKS.

Alex November 25, 2013 46 Comments
Community Halloween

Family Photo Album: Childhood Halloween Costumes, Thematically

There will never be anything better than Laneia as Wednesday Addams, I’m positive.

Hansen October 28, 2013 56 Comments
The Scene Travel

Queer Girl City Guide: Sydney, Australia

After a four-year stint in Autostraddle’s top American lesbianish city, I thought I had developed impossibly high expectations for every future place I’d inhabit. Then I found Sydney.

Jen August 15, 2012 47 Comments
Camp Travel

Call For Submissions: “On Camp” and More Queer Girl City Guides

We need more city guides! Also, our April theme is “On Camp”!

Riese March 26, 2012 95 Comments
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