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

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

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

AF+ Meet-Ups / Events

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

AF+

The Autostraddle Insider Issue 97: October 2022

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

AF+

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

AF+

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?????”

a queer couple holds each other, a more masc person with short hair kissing a femme person on the street

AF+

Into the A+ Advice Box #70: LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIPS

The team answers your questions about keeping those fires burning!

a collage featuring soulless rows of diverse women working at vintage computers and answering corded phones, as well as a computer screen being broken by an office chair. in large font on top of a wripped shred of paper read the words "Fuck You."

AF+

Anonymous Job Confession: My New Corporate Job Is Better Paid and Easier Than Any Job I’ve Ever Had

For most of my adult life, I’ve simultaneously held at least three jobs. Now I make more money doing one. And it’s easier!

a teacher leans over two students, instructing them in the use of a tablet

AF+

Member2Member Advice: This Post Is a Space for Educators

Share resources, swap advice, get temp checks on what you’re doing, and find support.

The feature for Into the A+ Advice Box shows a stock photo of a woman in the foreground on her cellphone with a blurry mysterious figure of a man stalking her from behind. They are both Asian humans.

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Into the A+ Advice Box #69: What If You Have a Stalker?

Supporting a partner with an HIV diagnosis, dating anxiety, dressing while pregnant, and more!

a collage on a bright red background. the collage has a rotting, sliced apple on it, an old-fashioned classroom transparency projector, rusting scissors, a chewed pencil, a pile of old files, scribbles on a chalk board, a ruler, and the screaming face of a white man in black and white

AF+

Anonymous Job Confession: My Boss Was an Egotistical, Predatory Dictator

“Cee showed me an audio recording she secretly took when she was alone with him.”

a collage showing Anya, a white woman with long brown-blonde hair smiling in an orchard and balancing an apple on her head, Kayla a South Asian woman with glasses and long brown hair smilign with a jack o lantern she carved that says gay with her partner Kristen in the background, a white butch human with long brown hair that is holding up a jack o lantern that is smiling, then there is a photo of viv with their sisters and family dog and they are all asian humans, sitting outside in fall weather, and finally, there is a photo of nico and their partner sadie outside of gertrude stein's birth home in the autumn. nico, a white human with bleached hair wearing fall clothes and a beanie is kissing the head of their partner, sadie, a white gender non conforming woman wearing a beanie and coat

AF+

REMINDER: Submit to the A+ Member 🎃 Autumnal Photo Gallery 🎃

Get those photos in!!!

an image of the cover of All This Could Be Different as well as an author photo of Sarah Thankam Mathews, a young South Asian woman, and in the center, against a black background, are white chat boxes representing chatting together with the author on discord

AF+

Sarah Thankam Mathews Chatted With Us About Collectivism, Spreadsheets, Queer Sex Scenes and More!

“I really wanted the movement of the novel to start with an I and end with a We.”

a collage oc casey's, sa'iyda's, laneia's tracy's, drew's, kayla's, carmen's, and em's insider photos

AF+

The Autostraddle Insider Issue 96: September 2022

“Is “Puzzle Box” central to Hellraiser?”

a very cute image of a dog smiling and looking into a refrigerator with a variety of foods in it. the photo is taken from inside the fridge, facing out so as to have a perspective facing the cute dog.

AF+

A+ Roundtable: What’s In Our Fridges?

“The Trader Joe’s tilapia actually slaps I highly recommend!”

a collage of Robyn on the left, a white trans woman with hair dyed black and pink, in the center, a photo of Artemis an angry gray cat, and to the right, Yashwina, a South Asian person with tattoos, brown hair, who is wearing overalls

AF+

Things I’ve Never Asked My Friend Who I “Married” in Kindergarten About Queer Horror, Books!

“There’s a certain point of friendship at which it becomes a blood pact. Certain things, we take to the grave.”

a collage with a red background bringing together elements of an Ameican flag, two broken cell phones, a weeping Mary statue, a United States representative (you cannot identify her) leaning grumpily in front of a podium dressed in blue, the White House, a house of cards, and Rosary beads

AF+

Anonymous Job Confession: A “Progressive” Non-profit Turns Out To Be Less So

“Whenever I wanted to post something supporting Black Lives Matter, talking about racial justice, or supporting LGBTQ rights she asked me why it was relevant.”

AF+ Meet-Ups / Events

Today’s A+ Read a Fucking Book Club Starts In 20 Minutes!

Come join us!

four abstractly illustrated figures engage in a celebratory kinky dance. from left to right we have someone with top surgery scars wearing assless chaps, connected bvia a pair of cuffs to a person who is blindfolded and wearing cut out underwear, who is dancing next to someone in a mask and what appears to abe a full body rope bind, and followed by a person in a fishnet, corset and ballgag waving a flogger above their head. The figures are featureless and hairless and purple and the kink elements are red

AF+ Love + Sex

How to Find Local Kink Community and Also How to Hire a Sex Worker

“There’re contingencies of queer freaks everywhere, sometimes it just takes a little more effort.”

a collage in tones of red, black and beige with office supplies, a broken keyboard, a person wearing a shirt made of computer keyboard keys sipping a straw from a cup full of them with a monitor for a head, a hot pot of coffee pouring down onto old school computer programming paper and leaving a stain, a catholic Mary's heart, a stapler, and a nightmarish looking excel spreadsheet

AF+

Anonymous Job Confession: A Hot Barista and Nightmare Spreadsheets

“It became what I thought was just a one-sided crush — a nice thing to daydream about while I was filling out the most horrendous, huge spreadsheets I had ever seen.”

two women with long hair kiss in front of a sunrise that is obscuring their faces with bright golden sunbeams. they are mostly in shadow

AF+

A+ Roundtable: Our First Times Having “Queer” Sex

“Her moaning kind of disappeared into the expanse of the ocean and the sand, and I remember thinking it was the coolest thing that ever happened to me.”

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