Holigay Gift Guide: 5 Perfect Presents For All 5 Love Languages
Whether your person prefers quality time, physical touch, words of affirmation, receiving gifts, or acts of service, we’ve got some gift ideas for them!
Take Autostraddle’s Very Exciting LGBTQ+ Travel Survey!
If you’ve got 15-20 minutes to tell me how and why you travel and where you go and what you do there and how you feel about it on a few different levels, it would be so great. Note: this is not the same travel survey we told you about last week!
Host A Cozy Holigay Meet-Up, Meet Straddlers, Spread Cheer!
If you want to host a Cozy Holigay Meet-Up, here’s what to do.
Bearing Life With and Alongside: On Masculinity, Pregnancy, and Medical Trauma
I hadn’t experienced transphobic violence in medicalized form before. But I’d experienced it in many others: in punches and pushes, through threats with weapons, or by being run off the road by cars while I was on foot.
Raising Baby T. Rex: How We Learn “Good” and “Bad”
“Good” and “bad” in a very bad world, fall fun, toddler logic, echolocation, fall fun, adults-only Halloween, and a requested cat + baby update.
Queering the Jewish Holidays: How I Celebrate Shabbat
Last week’s Shabbat was a tragedy. Let us make this week’s Shabbat a space for mourning, for healing, for connecting, for resisting, and for peace. Shabbat Shalom.
Happy Halloween 20GAYTEEN, Here’s Your Community Costume Photo Gallery
Happy Halloween! Y’all impress me with your costumes every year and 20gayteen is no exception.
15 Times Your Favorite TV Characters Dressed as Your Favorite Feminist Icons for Halloween
Nakias and Supergirls and Wonder Women, oh my!
VIDEO : Make Me Feel with This Janelle Monáe-Inspired Halloween Look
Can you believe it’s already Halloween?! Check out this RAD last minute makeup look inspired by Janelle Monae’s “Make Me Feel” video!
The Second Annual LGBTQ Outdoor Summit: A Magic Alternate Reality Where Everyone in the Outdoors is Queer
The second annual LGBTQ Outdoor Summit in California was full of panels, workshops, discussions, opportunities to talk to representatives from the outdoor industry — and a place for LGBT members of the outdoor community to share what it’s really like, and what’s really needed.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Tell Me Your Spookiest Stories!
It’s the Friday before Halloween and I want to know your spookiest stories!! ??
10 Halloween Couples Costume Ideas For You and My Dog
What if you’re a eucalyptus tree and your dog is a baby koala! Wouldn’t that be cute?
Do The Monster Mash: Binder Halloween Costumes with GC2B
gc2b grabbed some fabulous models and used their binders to create Halloween costumes on a budget using items you can find at a craft store, your local Halloween pop-up, and your own closet! This is for every queer who’s ever wanted to prance or parade around in their binder in public without putting a shirt over it.
Halloween Is the Holiday of Our People, Submit Photos for Our Community Costume Gallery
Send me photos of yourself in costume! Send me photos of your pet in costume! I’m making us a family photo album and I need your help!
Throw the Ultimate Queer Halloween Party!
Whether you’re a seasoned monster masher looking for new ideas or hoping to throw your first Halloween bash, there’s something in these three detailed party planning prompts for everyone.
Raising Baby T. Rex: The Soft Underbelly of a Hard Femme Mama
I love how soft I am postpartum. It’s a reminder of how my body stretched and grew and changed to grow a tiny human. I didn’t know I could be that strong and that soft simultaneously. I didn’t know my softness could be my strength.
55 Fictional Witches, Ranked by Lesbianism
Once I saw Heather Hogan stop a man who had been calling her “doll” in his tracks by asking him “What’s your name, buddy?” and that’s the same energy as Endora refusing to remember Darrin’s name correctly.
Halloween Is for Fanficking
A night to level the scales.
Size Matters: How the XO Flo Mini Menstrual Cup Saved My Vagina Feelings
The incredibly true adventure of one woman just trying to find a fcking menstrual cup that would work with her vagina. (Spoiler: she found one!)
Zumba Sisterhood of the Traveling Hips
In short, Zumba is a dance fitness class set to popular Latin music but honestly, for me, Zumba is more than just that, it’s given me life.