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Halloween

Your Best Halloween Costume Ever: Ridiculously Easy Ideas For Lazy, Broke or Busy Queers

Don’t spend more on a costume than you’d spend on a forty, and only wear what you’re willing to get stained.

Kate October 26, 2012 70 Comments
Halloween Recipes

Get Baked With A Tiny (Trick Or) Treat

A small thing you can make for your Halloweening experience. Let them eat teeny tiny cake!

Vanessa October 24, 2012 25 Comments
Halloween

Your Best Halloween Costume Ever: 90’s Television Nostalgia Edition

Costume ideas that would impress both your childhood self and your 90s lesbian brethren. Who doesn’t want to be Carmen Sandiego, really?

carrie October 22, 2012 53 Comments
Holigays Shopping

The Discerning Butch: A Gift Guide for the Masculine-of-Center Person In Your Life

What to get the queer who has everything. Or what to get yourself because hey, you deserve a present today.

Kate August 24, 2012 90 Comments
Holigays

Mother’s Day Cards for All Kinds of Mothers

Rachel’s Team Pick: Mother’s Day cards that are a little more inclusive than we’re used to.

Rachel May 10, 2012 9 Comments
Holigays

You Need A Mother’s Day Gift for Your Mother

Mother’s Day is almost upon us. What are you gonna buy? Maybe something gay.

Lizz May 10, 2012 37 Comments
Jewish Holidays Recipes

Get Baked: Matzo Pizza

Some people will tell you to just slap some sauce on a whole piece of matzo and stick it in the microwave. Some people would be wrong.

Lizz April 12, 2012 11 Comments
Holigays

Happy President’s Day! 50 Pictures Of First Ladies Being Awesome

Hey-o, nobody knows how to rock a pantsuit like a first lady.

Riese February 20, 2012 40 Comments
Valentine's Day

It’s Not What You’re Like, It’s What You Like: A Valentine’s Day Roundtable

This Valentine’s Day, we’re discussing the things that our loved ones must learn to appreciate in order to appreciate us.

the team February 14, 2012 100 Comments
Valentine's Day

Ten Ways To Celebrate Valentines Day That Don’t Suck

Just because you’re single doesn’t mean this won’t be the best Valentine’s Day ever.

Lizz February 13, 2012 57 Comments
NSFW Sunday Valentine's Day

Gift Guide: 10 Lesbosexy Valentine’s Day Things For Weirdos

Superman underpants, Rachel Maddow soap, spanking powder, boob-shaped pans and other very very very sexy Valentine’s Day themed objects.

Guest February 4, 2012 27 Comments
Holigays

New Year’s OPEN THREAD: What We’ll Leave in 2011

While everybody is deciding what they’re going to do in 2012, we tell some things / thoughts / feelings / behaviors of 2011 to go fuck themselves.

the team December 31, 2011 178 Comments
Christmas

Listling Without Commentary: Responses From AS Writers to “What Was Your Best X-Mas Gift Ever?”

“A used, tag-less shopping bag from the ’80s wrapped in an empty used candy box wrapped in trash.”

Laneia December 27, 2011 63 Comments
Christmas

10 Crazy Cheap Things You Could Get Today Without Getting Off Your Ass

This article exists primarily for me to tell you about Dr.Quinn and Head Massagers.

Riese December 26, 2011 34 Comments
Christmas

Christmakwanzakah Open Thread: Well, Happy Holigays Bitches

Merry Happy Festival of Things That People Either Believe In or Don’t! Let’s talk some shit out, yeah? a/s/l?

the team December 24, 2011 316 Comments
Holigays

Eight Last Minute Menorahs for Eight Crazy Nights of Chanukah Crafting

I’m no Martha Stewart, but I make a mean menorah.

Lizz December 20, 2011 15 Comments
Christmas Playlists

Playlist: Happy Holigays

105 hours of holiday music.

the team December 20, 2011 39 Comments
Food and Drink Thanksgiving

Get Toasted with Autostraddle: The Holigay Drinkstravaganza

As the sign outside a metro Boston liquor store once said, “Because holidays are for family.”

the team December 15, 2011 30 Comments
Christmas

Listling Without Commentary: Sh*t Your Family Said Last Christmas

“What’s the next thing you’re gonna be telling us? That you’re a serial killer?”

Riese December 14, 2011 104 Comments
Christmas Shopping

Autostraddle’s Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide 2011: What Your Girlfriend Or Otherwise-Inclined Pal Wants

This annual gigantic gift guide features all our wants, needs and desires. Or some of them, at least.

the team December 12, 2011 49 Comments
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