A graphic designer and a coffee roaster get frisky at their company’s holiday party. “Somehow, her thigh had found itself between my legs. Leaning in closer, she whispered, ‘I want to see how wet you are for me, babe.'”

“and my agent was like what the f*ck?”

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!

I did not have a waffle maker. But now I do. And the only option for waffles in my house is Skull Waffles. (Happy Halloween!)

Can we open it with “The Paris Review can blow us” and then just like…not explain?

Today you’re getting our entire team’s spiciest takes about 2022 LGBTQ+ TV and film, something I was only able to convince people to participate in because Nico said we could keep them safely tucked within A+.

“I identified as a heterosexually-inclined bisexual when I started giving hand jobs for money, and I left more or less a lesbian. It wasn’t the only factor in that transformation, but boy was it a major one.”

Advice for coping with your partner’s internalized fat-phobia, wedding vows, navigating social situations and friendships as an autistic person, and more!

“I was kinda scared of Barbie the way I was scared of all beautiful women…”

We have 26 whole questions on all things gender! From parenting to transition to clothing to inclusion and exclusion in queer spaces, and more!

“But I’d risk it all for her.” A young trans man in Johannesburg is sleeping with his straight boss in secret, and falling more deeply for her every day.

Coping with fatphobia and QAnon relatives, hosting your first party, regifting and more!

How to stand up to straight people wedding expectations, deal with disappointment around a potential sperm donor, decide whether or not to cut off given family, know whether you should ask your ex-boss out, and more!

In which we talk for a weirdly long time about who does laundry but also Yellowjackets, why a punk cover of “Mambo Italiano” is “our song,” and our sex drives.

Heather knows, she knows, how to connect with people through stories and writing, she knows how to make you feel seen, buoyed, valued, special, important, remarkable.

The AS team answers member advice questions — from dealing with workplace bullies to advocating for yourself in medical environments, and more!

The team gets into whether there’s something wrong with you if you’re not dating (no there is not), lube and Octavia Butler recommendations, taking care of your pit hair, not knowing why she broke up with you, and more!

“Is “Puzzle Box” central to Hellraiser?”

This is a book collection that’s used and loved, out of place and a little mismanaged — not for lack of care, but quite the opposite, due to an abundance of it. I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Career anxiety, dating after sexaul assault, consent and polyamory and more!