Holiday Merch Alert: Safe Space Sweatshirts, Throwback Tees, New Enamel Pins and MORE!
We’re bringing back some old favorites in new colors, some fresh tees and sweaters, and a ton of colorful enamel pins to decorate yourself with! Get in here!
Holigay Gift Guide: Support Nonprofits And Celebrate Your Loved Ones
Give your friends and family a gift that will make a difference in the lives of people most likely to be affected by a Trump-Pence administration by supporting a worthy nonprofit or activist organization in their name.
Holigay Gift Guide: Seasonally Relevant Things for People in Warmer Climates
How do I embrace all the things about the season that I love in a place where sometimes I don’t even remember the leaves change color? Obviously by conning one of you into buying me this sh*t.
Drawn to Comics: Gifts to Impress Your Queer Comics Crush
In light of this acceptance that I’m attracted to nerds, and with the understanding that there are probably lots of you who are attracted to nerds too, I decided that I’d put together some suggestions for gifts you can get for that special nerdy crush in your life.
20 Christmas Candy Recipes For When You Get Tired of That Bowl Full of Jelly
It’s almost Christmas! Still doesn’t feel like it, though. But maybe that’s because we’re not eating enough homemade seasonal candy, y’know?
Holigay Gift Guide: Gear For The Traveling Photographer
Cameras and bags and tents and lenses and cameras and cameras and cameras.
How to Make People With December Birthdays Feel Special
If you’ve got a non-December birthday, then listen up — you’ve got it made! Your birthday is not eclipsed by holiday cheer, capitalism, Santa and Jesus. So why don’t you help make our neglected birthday special?
Follow Your Arrow: How LGBTQ Youth Activist Tabby Besley Built a Sustainable Non-Profit
“Why do I do this? Because it needs to be done. Our schools and communities need to be safer for our young people, we are losing too many of them. I’m not going to sit and wait with naivety that our government or schools are going to lead that.”
Holigay Gift Guide: What to Buy for Your Work-from-Home Pal
Even the most organized freelancers could probably stand to be a little more organized.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.”
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.