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.
You Need Help: Coming Out as Non-Binary at Work
Our gender is not a burden, the binary mainstream society is. You are wonderful, I’m so proud of you for reaching out. Take what works from my suggestions, and know I’ll be hoping it all turns out for the best.
Autostraddle Roundtable: All About Our Mental Health
A lot of the requests from readers for advice and for personal writing are about mental health, so today we thought we’d share with you about our brain situations, what helps, what doesn’t, and what we’re still working on.
Community Photo Gallery: You All Looked So Good On Halloween
This community gallery is filled with 200+ photos of you queerdos looking very spooky, very sexy, very gay, and all around very, very good!
Did You Dress Up This Halloween? Send Us Photos For A Community Gallery!
Did you dress up for Halloween this year? Send me a picture of yourself in costume so I can put together the family photo album of our queer dress up dreams!
You Need Help: Your Therapist Is Clueless About Disability
Yes, helpful therapists exist! Yes, they are worth it! And yes, they are very hard to find! Stay with me.
Roundtable: Our Spookiest Real Ghost Stories
Turn on all the lights in the house and come read about the Winchester Mystery House, haunted cabins, songs playing from beyond the veil, and our deeply unsurprising number of experiences with ghost cats.
This Queer House, Vol 7: Halloween Decorations on a Budget
Get ready to get spooky.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: ‘Tis the Season to Be Spooky
It’s Friday, the week is winding down and we’re headed into one of the most important times of the gay holiday calendar: the weekend closest to Halloween.