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Shame as a Black, Autistic Queer Elder
“Toward the end of our stay in Mississippi, a 24-hour crisis line started up. I called them almost every weeknight.”
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If I Didn’t Initiate Sex in My Marriage, We’d Never Have Sex — Is This Normal?
Advice for a reader who’s frustrated with initiating sex, plus upper lip hair removal, and tips for sharing an apartment with a partner queerly and successfully.
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Into the AF+ Advice Inbox #97: F(ix) My Life
A troublesome group chat, a moldy shower, being autistic at work, moving cities, and more!
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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 87, December 2021: Sarah Sarwar Tribute Edition
“i don’t care about this at all except i would like to request hot pictures of the lesbians involved for a feature”
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Into the A+ Advice Box #78: Forgiveness and Accountability
Should you forgive an abusive parent? What should you do with a conflict between your ex girlfriend and a friend? 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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The Flood Came Later
“I’ve always loved the water. Before top surgery, when my discomfort with my body was at an all time high, swimming was the one thing I could do that gave me a sense of freedom. It felt safe to connect to my body in an environment where I could be weightless and enjoy moving with ease. I could be held by something when I was too self conscious to be touched by other people. I learned to swim in the pool at a hotel gym near the house I grew up in. My father taught me…”
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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #45
“Goblincore is in and we’re embracing being the spooky cryptid who lives in the swamp! (Dewy skin amirite? Clammy even).”
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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!
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Into the A+ Advice Box #79: Dating Women Who’ve Previously Only Been With Men
Advice for coping with your partner’s internalized fat-phobia, wedding vows, navigating social situations and friendships as an autistic person, and more!
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Into the A+ Advice Box #55: So You’ve Developed Major Feelings for a Friend
Bed death, wanting to be told you’re beautiful, HOW do you date, dealing with two friends who started dating and more!
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I’m Masculine, I Strap, I Love Being Called “Sir”… Am I Trans or a Masc Lesbian?
In this week’s AF+ Advice box: trying to figure out if you’re trans or a masculine lesbian, finding good lesbian love poems for a wedding, complicated feelings about an ex and group chat drama.
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Not Grateful Enough
“Thank you for pushing me down a ramp so quickly that I slammed into a wall.”
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Anonymous Sex Diary: Don’t Be Scared to Touch Me
A nonbinary person finally receives an endometriosis diagnosis that explains their pain. As ey begin exploring treatment options that mitigate the pain, ey and their partner decide to try having sex again.
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How Do I Re-Friend-Zone My Friend After the Worst Sex of My Life?
Advice on how to stay friends when the friend you hooked up with wants more, flagging with carabiners, and whether it’s okay if your wife is your only IRL friend.
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Member Meet and Greet With Our New CEO Kylo Freeman: Transcript and Recording
Thank you for being members!
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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us: #48
“I want you to know that three different people in my life sent me this video the day it dropped. I have not been the same since.”
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Into the A+ Advice Box: Should You Be Dating After an Assault?
“It is essential that we do name rape in our LGBTQIA+ communities.”
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Into the A+ Advice Box #75: Is It Over?
Career anxiety, dating after sexaul assault, consent and polyamory and more!
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Into the A+ Advice Box #80: GENDER FEELINGS
We have 26 whole questions on all things gender! From parenting to transition to clothing to inclusion and exclusion in queer spaces, and more!