Results for: queer parenting
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Into the A+ Advice Box #36: How Do You Become the Mean Femme Top of Your Dreams?
The Autostraddle team offers advice on a relationship crisis, dealing with the fact that your ex has moved on quickly, a friend who is less interested in rekindling the friendship than you are, commitment and marriage and more!
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Becoming Myself Post-Divorce Through Drag
“Po’Chop asks us to list adjectives we associate with masculinity. I think of men I want to emulate — Stanley Tucci, Mandy Patinkin, my dad. We pace and pose with these adjectives in mind, cheer each other on through acting out these poses. It’s the most I have thought about existing in my body in a long time, and the awkwardness starts to give way to appreciation, and even a bit of confidence.”
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Interview With My Partner: Gerrie
“The playlist that was basically titled: ‘I know I said I’m not into a relationship, but I love you.'”
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Chris Belcher Talked With the A+ Book Club About Academia, Memory and More!
“LOL yeah, I lusted for those spencers sex toys so bad”
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Into the A+ Advice Box #67: Surviving the End of a 9-Year Relationship
Looking for children’s books with queer moms, binding as a cis woman, communications issues in relationships, and more!
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Into the A+ Advice Box #81: So You Want to Act on Your Celebrity Crush
Advice for breakups, libido gaps, waffling on HRT, dealing with BV and more!
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S L I C K: Home for the Holidays
Our narrator recalls the time she finally hooked up with her best friend. “In just a few moments, Winnie had confirmed two suspicions I’d had for years: Winnie was a top and Winnie was little spoon.”
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Interview With My Ex: Courtney
“Isn’t it funny how much Facebook used to play a role in flirting?”
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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!
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What If It’s a Woman?
“We spoke up. Hell, this was post-#MeToo era. We were heroes. I was… a hero. So, why did I feel so much shame when, a year later, a woman sexually assaulted me?”
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I Confronted My Girlfriend About Cheating On Me, She Responded By Coming Out as Poly
Is this ever an okay way for a poly relationship to begin?
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Anonymous Sex Diary: Shibari and Stolen Privacy
“I’m not in a place where coming out to my family is a reasonable option. Fortunately, I have a husband who is more than happy to cover me during my prolonged phone conversations with other partners.”
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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 94: July 2022
“We were just kissing ON THE MOUTH and you wanna know if we are SISTERS?!”
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​​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.”
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Into the A+ Advice Box #84: Cheating With a Guy While Having Gender Feelings
If a date doesn’t suggest a meetup, does that mean they’re not interested? Should you break up over differences in how you relate to sex and desire? What’re tips for coping with treatment resistant ADHD? And more!
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Into the A+ Advice Box #76: JEALOUSY AND ENVY
“That’s what envy’s like. Not just wanting what other people have, but becoming so consumed by it that you end up casting yourself as a supporting character in their story, instead of inhabiting the full and wondrous world of your own story, where you’re the main character.”
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The Autostraddle Team Maysturbation Survey Results Are In!
Our favorite fantasies, how often we masturbate, unexpected items we do the job with, and more!
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Into the A+ Advice Box #86: Your Fertility Journey and Complicated Feelings About Straight Friends
Signaling that you’re queer, the importance of friends in dating, a-traditional proposals and more!
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Into the A+ Advice Box #74: HOLIGAY ADVICE
Coping with fatphobia and QAnon relatives, hosting your first party, regifting and more!
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Into the A+ Advice Box #89: Your Date’s Always Late, Should You Break Up?
Getting out there after separating from your cishet husband, mixing masculine and feminine style, asking people at the bar to kiss you on your birthday, and more!