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The Starting Place: How an Unlikely Hiker Can Get Outdoorsy
A personal take on showing up, hiking through it, and knots and how to tie them.
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Tattoos and Disability: Surviving An Experience Not Everyone Can Handle
“I made a choice about how I would look, and didn’t realize until I’d done it how unprecedented that was.”
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You Need Help: Emerging From Your Hermitage
Like, I think about buying a coffee and then am like “no no self, you can’t do that – you would need to speak to a person.”
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The Grossest Tales Ever Told By Women On The Internet
You may have heard that somebody’s gynecologist found a cat hairball in her vagina. Why stop there? There are so many other wonderful tales to tell each other!
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Sleep Tips for Sleepless Queers
Sleep is a gift. A good night’s rest heals the body and soul and is glorious. So, let’s help each other sleep, yeah? I’ll share my tips and you’ll share yours. Then maybe we can have an international spiritual slumber party, but the kind where people actually slumber.
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What Planned Parenthood Means to LGBT Women: The Roundtable
Autostraddle and A-Camp staff and family members are here to talk about what PP means to us as LGBT folks, and why we need it to be around for a very, very long time.
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Here’s To Your Health: 5 Ways Bisexual Women Can Pursue Better Health & Wellness
Compiled from the wisdom of numerous reports, online resources and experts, here are five ways that you can take care of your own health, even in the face of high risks, economic pressures and often incompetent care providers.
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Sober in the City: A Feminist Walks into AA
“If a group I was attending was still printing, distributing, and teaching from a book that was blatantly racist or homophobic, I would get up and leave and/or advocate for change. I do not give special passes for misogyny and sexism, especially in my sobriety, because my self-worth is so integral to my complete recovery.”
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Our Embarrassing Sleep-Deprived Mess-Ups and Mishaps: A Roundtable
Lord knows the messes we get ourselves into when we haven’t gotten enough sleep. If you want to know them too, they’re all revealed in this roundtable!
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Sober in the City: An Atheist Walks into AA
“The fellowship said I was thinking too hard about it, that I was stubborn, and that I was not willing to admit that there were forces bigger than me. What they didn’t get was that I did believe there were forces beyond my control, powers bigger than me. Let’s just take gravity as one of many examples. I just don’t believe that praying to gravity or the radiator or the ocean would cure me of my alcoholism.”
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The ABC’s of Coping With SAD and The Bitter Reality of Winter
It’s getting colder and colder by the day, and I cannot help but remember how helplessly sad I was last time around. This time, I’m gonna try to nip it in the bud. Here are some ways to stave off your cold weather blues.
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You Need Help: Your AD(H)D is F*cking Up Your Focus
Here’s what you do first: Close all those browser tabs besides this one, set aside all your other devices, and watch as I lay out these simple techniques to help you learn to rule the world (in easy-to-digest list form).
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Our Streets, Our Selves: Tips for Post-Harassment Self-Care
“It’s important to remember that nothing you did caused your harassment. You are worthy of walking around in a world that loves and appreciates you in ways you want to be loved and appreciated.”
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Lesbian Obesity Study Misses the Point: We Don’t Care If We’re Fat
The NIH has spent millions to find out why lesbians are more often overweight than straight women. But is it a matter of public health, or a product of the accepting nature of queer culture?
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This Thing Bigger Than Us: Sexuality, Religion and Wellness
No matter the hate we have faced, we can reclaim our spirituality in a world where many people would call us sinners.
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Social Skills or Stereotypes? What My Autism Classes Didn’t Teach Me
“Social skills classes are particularly bad places to learn gender and sexuality lessons because they combine direct instruction with the neurotypical authority of telling us how to act. Socialization groups seem safer, but sometimes, gender and sexuality discrimination still subtly invade them. Where do we go from here? I believe the solution is multi-tiered.”
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Look What My Queer Feet Can Do: Running into 2014
It was time to try to trust my body and see what it would be capable of.
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Fat Liberation Is Totally Queer
“Social equality for all people, regardless of size, must become a goal of the queer movement.”
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Science Says It’s Time for Real Talk About Lesbians and Pap Smears
This study from University of Maryland tells us that 38% of lesbians aren’t being regularly screened for cervical cancer.
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Ten Ways to End Your Ugly Relationship With Stress
Spoiler Alert: They don’t ALL involve sex.