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Christmas Community

Come Gather, All Ye Gentlequeers: It’s Autostraddle Holigay Meet-Up Season!

I am determined to find joy and then somehow figure out how to make it contagious in an attempt to heal the world! I’m also here to enlist you in said mission by encouraging you all to get into the spirit and host some holigay meet-ups!

Carmen November 30, 2016 89 Comments
Christmas Sex Toys

Holigay Gift Guide: Sex Toys for Trans Women

Obviously, a lot of toys you’d buy for a cis woman are great, but also, let’s be real, trans women have some special needs and desires.

Mey November 30, 2016 8 Comments
Christmas

Autostraddle’s Ultimate Team Holigay Gift Guide 2016: What We Want Besides A Revolution

It’s that time again! For the EPIC ENORMOUS gift guide in which all of us tell you what we want and then you go get the things for somebody else.

Carmen November 29, 2016 43 Comments
Holigays Parenting & Family

Holigay Gift Guide 2016: New Parents of Human Babies

Did your friend/relative/coworker have a baby recently? Give a gift that shows you see how exhausted they are and you care.

KaeLyn November 29, 2016 9 Comments
Christmas

Gift Guide: What to Ask For if You Want Your Friends to Be A Little Scared of You (In a Fun Way)

Being a little scary is such a great look. It’s why so many people are into Scorpios and Slytherins.

Mey November 25, 2016 24 Comments
Holigays

12 Incredible Black Friday Sales That’ll Make Your Head Pop Right Off Your Body!

If you’re going to shop on Black Friday, for the love of goddess, do so from your couch in your pajamas. It’s nasty out there.

Riese November 25, 2016 4 Comments
Thanksgiving

OPEN THREAD: Thanksgiving 2016 Family Togetherness Time Right Here Together

We’re spending Thanksgiving together as a family; you don’t have to dress up but it would be nice if you tried the mashed potatoes. Get in here!

the team November 25, 2016 118 Comments
Holigays

20% Off EVERYTHING In The Autostraddle Store Including New Gal Pal Hoodies!

OH MY GOSH LOOK AT THIS! IT’S A MAGICAL SALE! Plus we have black Gal Pal hoodies and a Black Gradient Scissoring Tee and more cool new shit on the way!

Riese November 25, 2016 19 Comments
Christmas Sex Toys Sponsored

Holigay Gift Guide 2016: Buying Someone A Sex Toy? Start Here.

Whether you want to say “I love you,” “I have a crush on you,” or “I genuinely want you to be happy and maybe have a lot of orgasms,” we’ve got the sex toys for you.

Ryan Yates November 23, 2016 15 Comments
Recipes Thanksgiving

How To Cook Vegducken (Or: How to Spend Thanksgiving Heartsick and Far From Home)

“I get up off the floor, reach for a long, heavy leek and a cutting board and my favorite knife, its weight in my palm like an amulet. I feel like a stranger in my own life, but I have seven hours and eight dishes left. There is work to be done.”

Maree November 22, 2016 29 Comments
Christmas Shopping

Aggressively Adorable Gifts to Make the Long-Distance Dating Struggle a Little Easier

Ease the sting of distance with these mostly practical (but yes, some are sappy… DISTANCE IS HARD, y’all) gifts.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya November 22, 2016 9 Comments
Thanksgiving

How To Be Alone on Thanksgiving

So, you’re spending Thanksgiving 2016 alone. I’m here to let you know that spending Thanksgiving alone is not only just fine, it’s also damn fun.

Ari November 21, 2016 31 Comments
Queer Fashion Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving, Be The Raging Feminist Killjoy Your Family Fears with FASHION

Why not bring the fight to them? Wear your heart and your guts and your politics on your sleeve. And across your chest, and on your head.

Laneia November 16, 2016 30 Comments
Health

There Will Be Blood, the Bike Ride: Cyclists for Menstrual Cycles

How the Sustainable Cycles bike collective is making menstruation products accessible and fighting stigma.

Liza Mcdonald November 14, 2016 4 Comments
Health

Feelings Rookie: Coping Skills

Coping is a huge part of our lives and we all have our schemes, whether they’re conscious or not. In this particularly troubling time, it’s more important than ever.

Molly Priddy November 11, 2016 22 Comments
Coming Out Holigays

The 11 Best Holidays For Coming Out To Your Family and Friends

Here’s what you do: write “I’m Gay” (or trans or bi or queer or whatever) on a piece of paper and put it inside an Easter Egg for the Easter Egg Hunt. Someone at your family gathering will find it, and it will lead to mass confusion as everyone tries to figure out who the “I” is referring to in the note. Now your Easter party is a Mystery party!

Mey November 11, 2016 48 Comments
Money + Work

50 Blogs and Books and Podcasts That Inspire Queer Entrepreneurs

The internet is full of resources to help you start and run your business. These are some of our faves!

Beth November 3, 2016 10 Comments
Halloween

PHOTOESSAY: West Hollywood’s Halloween Carnival Is Really Bonkers

Protip: leave around the time you see clowns passed out on the floor.

Molly November 2, 2016 6 Comments
Geekery Halloween

Drawn to Comics: Six Spooky and Fun Comics Perfect for an All-Ages Queer Halloween

Halloween is a great time for queer people. We get to explore weird stuff, we get to dress however we want, we get to try new things. We also get to tell stories. We get to tell stories that show just how weird and different and, yes, sometimes creepy, our worlds and our lives and our selves are.

Mey November 1, 2016 1 Comment
Book Lists Halloween

Normal Blood Feelings: 5 Dark (and Sometimes Sexy) Queer Vampire Stories

If witches are a way to tell stories about women and power, vampires are a way to tell stories about women and sex.

Ryan Yates October 28, 2016 13 Comments
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