Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #41
“I just learned the word “Swiftgron”!!!! ?! Taylor Swift + Diana Agron as a maybe couple at some point ??!”
A+ Roundtable: Our Worst Roommate Experiences
“The day I moved in she put one of those HRC equal sign stickers on the fridge lol. So performative!”
Between Orbits: Two Manipulators, Pulled Out of Abuse and Back
Or, the queer urge to almost form a cult with a straight woman.
A+ Roundtable: Our Orgasm Thoughts
“Controversial and brave of me to say but I love orgasms lol.”
Into the A+ Advice Box #58: Money Problems
Dating with different incomes, saving to buy an apartment, being exhausted by constantly living under capitalism — and more!
A+ Roundtable: Dealing With the Push To ‘Go Back to Normal’
“I try to take my Covid guidelines from the immunocompromised people in my life — not the government.”
Into the A+ Advice Box #57: Can You Ask Someone Out While They’re Working?
Is it bad that your type is queer mascs / butches, are you burnt out, and how do you move on after your partner cheats on you with your best friend? The team answers all these questions, and more in our members-only advice column!
The Autostraddle Insider Issue 90, March 2022
“currently googling disobedience + spit”
Things I’ve Never Asked My Girlfriend of Three Years About Age Gaps, Topping, and Our First Date
In part two of their intimate interview, Autostraddle Managing Editor Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya asks her girlfriend Kristen Arnett to define being a top and what she remembers about their first night together at a hotel bar.
S L I C K: Read Me
A bookstore employee who’s crushing on her hot, older boss, finally tells her how she feels (and finds out how her boss feels, too)! “Our moans were call and response, our bodies constellations.”
The Autostraddle Senior Team Hang on Our A+ Pop-Up Discord is NOW!
Help us close out our 13th Birthday celebration and the pop-up discord server with our senior team!
A+ Roundtable: The Keepsakes We Just Can’t Let Go Of
What keepsake do you hold onto that nobody else would understand?
Join Us on the 13th Birthday A+ Pop-Up Discord Server!
It’s finally time!
Into the A+ Advice Box #56: IMPOSTER SYNDROME, SELF-SABOTAGE, and SELF-DOUBT
A lack of focus, the road not taken, fear of dating — the team tackles these topics and more!
A+ Members: Join the Selection Committee for Autostraddle’s 2022 March Madness Contest
Want to revel in everything Gigi? Drag her relationships with Bette and Dani to the top of the Generation Q region. Did you share the internet’s disdain for Miranda and Che? Drop them to the bottom of the Grown region. Make whatever choices for whatever reason seems right to you.
A+ Roundtable: 13 and Mortified
Being 13 is somehow this pure, unending, embarassing hell. Even still, some moments from our 13-year-old pasts stood out to us as particularly cringeworthy.
I Was Supposed To Be Good At Math
For a split second, I thought about her racial calculations, not because I felt I needed to know, but because maybe, finally, someone might be like me. I knew our skin colors carried the weight of the same questions.
S L I C K: Thank You, Mistress
“It’s not about causing the most pain or smacking as hard as I can. It’s about getting a reaction out of you and guiding you gently, but firmly, to your limit.”
Things I’ve Never Asked My Girlfriend of Three Years About Her Childhood and High School Years
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya asks Kristen Arnett juicy questions about queer desire, secret high school girlfriends, and more in this new A+ series in which we ask people we’re close with questions we genuinely don’t know how they’ll answer.
Our 13th Birthday A+ AMA is NOW!!! Ask Us Anything!
We’re experts in money stuff, sports, queer TV, dating, monogamy and marriage, mom stuff but like tired, and more! A+ members can ask us anything today!