What’s In Your Bag?
Autostraddle staffers opened their bags — you’ll never believe what happened next!
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 24, June 2016
“I hope you gave birth to a swan, invented a new way to eat pineapples, started recycling or used a cucumber as a dildo after your dog ate your dildo. I hope only good things for you.”
The A+ Bee Issue Thirty-Nine: Bee Cool, Soda Pop
This issue contains a haiku about Sarah, our new Design Director, a word search AND a mystery solvers, and a guest playlist about cats. Get in here!
Annotated: Jenny Owen Youngs “Fuck Was I”
“Everyone I had dated or made out with (or even thought about making out with) in the past year thought it was about them. At the time, I was certain they were all wrong — except, you know, one of them.”
Have the Coolest Father’s Day With Our Cool Dads
A vintage Father’s Day celebration, with photos!
A+ Inbox LIVE #9: Who’s Cleaning Up That Whipped Cream?
*Available to all A+ members, including Cobalt and Bronze.* On this week’s show, we discuss underwears and the personal evolution thereof, crushing on your bestie roommate, and how you’re feeling about this redesign. Also, hey, what was the Saved By The Bell of your generation?
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 23, May 2016, Alex Vega Tribute Edition
Our number one feeling is always Alex Vega.
The A+ Bee Issue Thirty-Eight: Ride Sally Ride
This issue includes an out of this world playlist, a coloring page featuring Sally herself, a constellation by number and so much more!
A+ Inbox LIVE! #7: I Didn’t WANT a Vanilla Latte
We discuss what to do with your social media pics that include your exes, what to do when your weird is showing, and how to deal with mansplaining dorks who happened to be married to your BFF, with a guest appearance from a new Staff Writer! Are you not INTRIGUED.
Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #8
Come on in!
Have the Coolest Mother’s Day
A vintage Mother’s Day celebration, with photos!
A+ Inbox LIVE! #6: Two to Three Seconds Between Pops
It’s a special *Voicemail Only* show and we’re discussing sandwiches (but not really!!), beginning to make friends after depression and with anxiety, and the joys of a world that looks and acts just like A-Camp. Special guest barks: Tungi!
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 22, April 2016
“it’s amazing how much more grownup writing a column on the internet makes you seem.”
A+ Inbox LIVE! #5: It Was a Wild Summer
On this week’s show, we discuss deciding not to date someone who doesn’t believe in evolution,me being hypnotized ,and how all those U-Haul jokes fuck with our concept of “too soon” when it comes to, well, U-Hauling.
The A+ Bee Issue Thirty-Seven: I Bee-Lieve in a Thing Called Love
This issue has a magical haiku by the equally magical Audrey, a very gay Eye Spy, an A-Camp confession AND SO MUCH MORE. Get in here and get reading.
Annotated: Margaret Cho’s Moving Tribute To Anna Nicole
In a new column just for A+ subscribers, some of our select favorite musicians will walk us through the creative process behind their favorite songs. We’re kicking off Annotated with Margaret Cho, who wrote a funny/heartbreaking tribute to Anna Nicole Smith for her new album American Myth.
18 Excerpts from Maddie’s Babyqueer Diary, 2005-2007
“I don’t especially want to be gay, but If I was, no big deal, and who knows?”
A+ Inbox LIVE! #4: It’s An Elusive Soup
On this week’s show, we discuss lightening the weight of confessing a crush, some cocaine stories (??), soups galore, and Vapid Fluff as legitimate, interesting and well-written fun. Plus there’s a special guest! Genuinely not sure whose dog is barking in this one.
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 21, March 2016
“I will probably be Connie Britton Editor from now on. Also heading up our Star Witness Akita division.”
A+ Inbox LIVE! #3: I Am Really Fond of Mermaids
Autostraddle’s senior editors are answering more of your Priority Inbox questions in another episode of A+ Inbox LIVE! This week’s topics include profile pics, avoiding the role of experimental queer gateway drug, passive aggressive co-workers, space and even more puppy barks.