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

The AS team talks finding queer community with your lesbian sister, coping with a harmful mother-in-law, feeling ignored by your parents because you’re childless and more!

A collage of three photos. On the left, a young Carmen smiles outside. In the center, Nico and Carmen post for a photo opp outdoors in Buffalo, arms outstretched, and to the right, adult Carmen poses in a flowing white dress and Birkenstocks outside

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Things I’ve Never Asked Carmen About Growing Up in a Theater Family, Her Dating Habits, and More!

We talk tattoos, 9/11 and Carmen’s high school activism, spirituality, what L Word character Carmen is most like, being a die-hard femme and more!

AF+ Puzzles

A+ Crossword That Did the Reading

Come for the gay clues, stay for the brief cultural history lesson.

a charcoal life drawing of a pair of human legs, the torso is just out of frame. behind the legs is a blackened expanse of charcoal. the drawing is dark and moody

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How Art Modeling Carried Me Through an Abusive Relationship

“I wanted to be a landscape or a place that couldn’t be contained.”

three photos of tracy and mia. In the center photo, Tracy is a half-Filipina woman with short, dark hair. Mia is a white woman with short gray hair cut in a short bob. Tracy wears a tee shirt and stands with arms folded. Mia wears a black three quarter sleeve shirt and stands with hands in her jean pockets. To the left is an old photo fo the couple from their younger years, smiling inside of a photo booth. To the right is also an older photo of the couple kissing outside. Mia is wearing a white tank and Tracy a striped tank.

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Interview With My Wife: Mia

“I know, now the thought of sleeping in is just as exciting as a full blown affair to me.”

AF+ Puzzles

A+ Crossword for Forward-Thinking, Nostalgia

A larger crossword that’ll challenge you AND get a song stuck in your head for the rest of the day!

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

Feeling bad because of TikTok, boundary setting during sex, what your porn preferences mean, and more!

the autostraddle senior team: riese, carmen, kayla, laneia, nico, heather, anya and viv smile against a spacey background, planets around them

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Right The Heck Now: You, Us, the A+ Pop-Up Discord?

Join us! Plus there’s a hang with the senior team on Friday!

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Should We Have an A+ Meetup in Providence, RI Next Week? Discuss!

On Monday???

a collage of drew, carmen, heather and kayla's insider images

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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 97: October 2022

“Extremely weird that there are two queer media subjects named TAR right now.”

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Editor’s Notes: On Horror Is So Gay

Before I tell you about all the things that were done right with Horror Is So Gay, let me tell you about the things I did wrong.

black and white photos of the autostraddle team are set against a lime green backdrop and behind negroni spagliattos. riese is a white woman with blonde hair and is holding a water bottle and smiling. Carmen is a Black woman with her hair up in a wrap drinking from a water bottle and smiling. Viv is an Asian human with short hair drinking from a glass water bottle and looking serious. Anya is a white woman with long brown hair and glasses drinking from a mug with a cat on it. Laneia is a white woman with short dark hair in this photo drinking from a giant jar of something which is maybe tea. She also has glasses. Nico is a white genderqueer human drinking from a coffee thermos and wearing glasses. Their hair is bleached and short and shaved on the sides. Kayla is a South Asian woman with long brown hair and glasses who is smiling over a cute little cocktail and heather is a soft butch white woman with short hair and glasses holding up one of our PRAY THE GAY TO STAY fundraiser mugs

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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #44

“Ok someone had previously asked if Autostraddle was going to write a piece on How To Build a Sex Room and I did not realize it was a SHOW I just thought someone was requesting extremely specific DIY content?????”