Annotated: Julia Nunes, “All The Same”
“Hi, I’m Julia Nunes and I’m a recovering people pleaser.”
“Hi, I’m Julia Nunes and I’m a recovering people pleaser.”
“It was a predatory smile that he flashed at us, the rest of his pack, expecting us to become predators with him and start howling along.”
Welcome to Poly Pocket, a new series showcasing polyamorous and ethically non-monogamous relationships. Here’s how a married kinky butch/femme couple does poly.
Which Autostraddle staffers have which of these tattoos? Are you familiar enough with their personal brands and/or Instagrams to guess? Or maybe psychic? Let’s find out!
It was a real treat watching her learn to love the series too, and so when she was all finished, I called her up on the phone and talked to her about her magical journey.
“i’m stepping down from autostraddle
bye
you’ll miss calling me out when i give my body to the sea so”
With illustrations!
“Rather than the ‘Irish goodbye’ where you slip out without telling anyone the ‘lesbian goodbye’ is to have a sort of intense breakup and then continue to sleep in each other’s beds.”
Grieving a friend lost to suicide in childhood, the effects of harmful compulsory masculinity, and looking around at a life that could just barely have been imagined then.
“Today in the bisexual celebrities beat, I have fucking died”
Get ready for a moon puzzle, coloring page, playlist and SO MUCH MORE.
Autostraddle staffers opened their bags — you’ll never believe what happened next!
“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.”
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!
“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.”
A vintage Father’s Day celebration, with photos!
*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?
Our number one feeling is always Alex Vega.
This issue includes an out of this world playlist, a coloring page featuring Sally herself, a constellation by number and so much more!
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.