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“Wait, Is This a Date?” Podcast Episode 101: Believe People Are Into You
“I’m really hoping throughout this podcast, you start dating like crazy, and maybe I settle down? Who knows what could happen?”
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It’s Your Anniversary: Craig David’s 7 Days Is Really About Lesbian Dating
“I’m sure Mr. David didn’t set out to write a Black lesbian dating anthem but this is where we are — where I am — in regard to this timeless banger.”
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“Wait, Is This a Date?” Podcast Episode 107: Love Is Not a Lie
Wipe away those break up tears because we’re going to show you that love is not a lie! This week we have Autostraddle editor and all around icon Heather Hogan talking about her 11 year(!!) relationship with her wife and all things long term relationships.
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“Wait, Is This a Date?” Podcast Special Episode: 2021 Mailbag
Happy holidays! And by “happy” I mean, things sure feel really bad right now?? But luckily our gift to you is a virtual one AKA our long-awaited mailbag episode!
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You Need Help: Why Do I Keep Crushing on Straight White Guys?
The dynamic between white men and Asian partners is uncomfortable. There’s always a worry that they’re interested in what you represent, not who you are.
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You Need Help: How to Be Gay In Public
Being gay in public can be daunting, and it is not only because PDA discourse is fraught with questions of respectability and modesty. No, for us in the LGBTQ+ community, it can be a matter of life and death, so I completely understand your confusion and possible hesitance around showing PDA to your partner.
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A Very Sensible, Queer Guide to Sending the First Message on Dating Apps
14 first messages that will have you burning up your matches list (with queer pop culture references!).
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Sadomasochism & Mental Health: Self-Expression
“When I was diagnosed, and realizing how it affected me outside of the way that I eat, it’s these processes throughout my day or the way that my personality functions. It isn’t that disruptive, but having the framework helped. Finding kink, having the words for it, helped contextualize the sex that I like to have, the friendships that I like to have, the dynamics that I like to have and the relationships in general.”
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We Hosted a Virtual Workshop on COVID-19 and Queer Sexual Health!
Last week, we partnered with Rainbow Health to host a virtual workshop on COVID-19 and queer sexual health. Here’s a complete transcript of what went down!
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“Wait, Is This a Date?” Podcast Episode 104: Sexting or Something Like It
“Challenge. Sext in strictly second person.”
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5 Good Reasons to Just Fart in Front of Your Partner Already
Consider this your invitation to stop hiding, loosen your cheeks and let your sphincter siren sing for the one(s) you love.
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Four Months
“This was after that night, when I moved into the guest room with the little bathroom, when I moved my toiletries onto the shower floor, when I moved all the books I was reading, and my perfume bottles, my department-store boxes filled with eyeliner and lipstick. And I texted my spouse that we were separating and that I had moved into the guest room, and they called me and wanted to come back to the house and I said, ‘No, no, don’t, I don’t want you to,’ and then sat on the front porch smoking, waiting, as I had set the stage for another cinematic moment to happen. And my spouse did not come home.”
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Dating Download: Three Lesbians Try Bumble and Date On a Deadline
“Bumble gives you two free filters. Usually filtering paidbut I def liked picking and choosing which ones to turn on and off. I fucked around a lot with the star sign and height — I can no longer allow Libras to disturb my peace.”
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#PolyamoryProblems: How to Deal With a Closeted Partner
Feeling made invisible by your own partner’s choices to not come out as both queer and polyamorous is tough. This edition of #PolyamoryProblems dives into how to deal with a partner who is living in a double closet.
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Here’s Your Full Video Workshop Breaking Down Everything You Need to Know for Strap-On Sex
The latest in Queer Sex 101, our series of real live queer people teaching you everything you need to know about real queer sex continues, with a one-hour workshop from sex educator, Autostraddle writer, SLICK editor and More, Please! editor Ro White on strap-on sex.
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Your Lesbian Aunt Who Loves You Writes Your Dating Profile
Lately I’ve been joking that I am everyone’s lesbian aunt (or grandfather, depending on whether or not I am offering encouragement or once again scolding half of our team for not having flashlights in their apartments!). And so I thought, what if I just embraced that vibe and put it to work.
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The Complicated Nature of Sex for Asian Women
Our trans subject editor Xoai Pham speaks to Jayda Shuavarnnasri, Thai-American sexuality educator and resident #SexPositiveAsianAuntie, about sexual violence, myths about polyamory, and what it means to take up space as Asian women.
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Pushing Daddy Harder: What Being a Bisexual Sugar Baby Has Taught Me
Dancing around his apartment with a bottle of Dom Perignon in hand, I learned I couldn’t speak for anyone but myself.
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S L I C K: Duckling
First I became a cloud-woman. Min had always liked watching them as a child, one of her only good memories from that period. I lifted up my skirts, let her lap up my water. Her mouth was covered in dew when I kissed her.
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S L I C K: Wanna Cyber
Mostly I had chalked my ambivalence up to stifling antidepressants and emotional avoidance. Was I gutted of desire or was this a case of under exposure? Or was I supposed to own my simpleton truth and scream from a cliff, “I just want to dim the lights and be pegged, goddamnit!”