DIY Soy Massage Candles For The Holigays (and Beyond)
Pour hot wax on your partner! The perfect activity for chilly winter nights.
You’re Throwing the Legendary Theme Party of Your Dreams (with This Guide)
“Don’t half-ass a themed party. No one will ever trust you to throw a party again.”
2017 Black Friday Deal Guide To Black Friday Deals You Can Get Without Getting Up This Black Friday Sale Day
Black Friday Wildfang! Black Friday Deals J Crew! Black Friday H&M Deals. Black Friday Shopping Deals. Wow Black Friday deals for queers right here, what a day we are all having right now, what a time to be alive, what a time to go shopping!!!!!!
OPEN THREAD: Your Internet Friendsgiving Extravaganza
Whether you need company today, solidarity when it comes to family, or just someone to share memes with, we’ve got you covered. Get in here!
Holigay Gift Guide: Trusting Gender Traitors Is Never Dangerous
Take your gender treachery to the next level with these gifts for watching, reading, playing, and giving.
Friendsgiving Challenge #3: Let’s Talk (Not) Turkey
You’re looking for an impressive quick-cooking, small-scale main dish that was chosen just for you by Cat Cora her very self? WELL THAT’S THIS.
Holigay Gift Guide: Queer Comic Book Movies and the Queer Comic Book Ladies In Them
We’ve seen a lot of canonically queer women in comic book movies lately; here’s the gift guide for those who are thrilled about that development.
Six Tips for Dealing with Your Difficult Family Members Over the Holidays
I’m sharing tips and techniques that have been useful to me in the face of conflict for those of you who’ll need to advocate for yourselves in difficult conversations and fight the good fight this holiday season. We can do this. Hopefully one day we won’t have to.
Holigay Gift Guide: You’re Just Really Into Books
Gifts for people who are super into books that aren’t, y’know, books. And also some that are.
Autostraddle’s Ultimate Team Holigay Gift Guide 2017: Everything We Want Besides World Peace and Impeachment
Find out what the entire Autostraddle Team wants for the holigays, and nab a couple of sweet gift ideas for you and your loved ones while you’re at it!
The Most Wonderful Time Of Year: Holigay Meet-Up Season!
It’s the most wonderful time of year so let’s spend it with our chosen family!
Friendsgiving Challenge #2: A Dessert You Can Also Eat for Breakfast
Vegetarian with allergies to nuts, coconuts, and sesame seeds? Well Julia Turshen has a delicious warm dessert (or breakfast!) for you!
Exploring the Messy, Imperfect Joy of Queer Foster-to-Adopt Parenting
“And then she told us there was another child — a baby — at a nearby hospital. Were we interested? We said yes even though we had a thousand questions and just as many concerns (why was he in the hospital? Where were his birth parents? Who was holding him when he cried?). That baby turned out to be our son.”
Friendsgiving Challenge #1: Real Friendship is Working Around Everyone’s Dietary Restrictions
Kyle’s created a full Friendsgiving menu that accommodates about a dozen dietary restrictions, and she’s used an impressive graphing system to make it happen.
Holigay Gift Guide: The World of Queer Geekery
There are lots of great things about being a queer nerd, but maybe the best is that you get to be friends with other queer nerds. They’re really the best people. And they make great merch.
Holigay Gift Guide: Artsy and Handcrafted Items Made by Women and Queer People
These are all gifts made by women and queer people, each one personally hand-crafted or designed, that you can gift to the discerning artist types in your life.
Holigay Gift Guide: I Saw Mommi Kissing Santa Claus
To all of our mommis, mommi fans, confused bystanders watching this all go down, as well as those thinking about dabbling: this one’s for you.
Three Masculine of Center Workout Looks for Hitting the Gym in Style
I love going to the gym, but finding comfy activewear that also reflects my gender is not easy.
Femme Brûlée: Pumpkin Pie
Despite all the potential for error, I do genuinely think it’s still worth it to make pies.
5 Ways To Fight Back Against Seasonal Affective Disorder
I’ve been dealing with SAD all my adult life, and especially since I moved to the northeast where daylight lasts about as long as my lunch break from November to March. I’ve learned a lot about coping, and about making things easier on myself by noticing and addressing my symptoms before I’m in the midst of a full-blown depressive spiral. SAD isn’t fixable for me, but here’s how I’ve learned to fight back against it.