Bette and Tina from the L Word in couples therapy. Text reads: Into the A+ Advice Box
AF+

Into the A+ Advice Box #38: Repairing Relationships Can’t Happen Only From One Side

The team answers A+ member questions like: How do you reconnect with friends after not being in touch during COVID? Do you tell a friend where you’re going if you’re meeting someone from the internet on a date? How do you support your partner in speaking up against micro (and macro) aggressions at work? What do you do if you have a crush on a (maybe straight) coworker? How do you navigate a food-related relationship pickle? …And more!

cutouts of black & white prints of a flogger and a human hand on a black leather background
Lesbian Sex

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.”

A close-up portrait of someone cradling a very young baby, with the person's arms visible and the baby's bare feet up close to the lens.
Gender Parenting & Family

Nursing as a Nonbinary Person Was Hard; Getting Back to my Binder Was Harder

My intention was always to go back to my binders as soon as I was done nursing my son. But the longer I waited, and the longer they sat there in my drawer, tucked in with my socks and underwear, the more they became less a sense of self that waited to be reclaimed and more a lurking, almost ominous presence that filled me with anxiety every time I thought about going to put one on.