Going Home To My Ghosts: A Photoessay
The entire story of our entire trip from California to Michigan and also all the bigger stories and the smaller ones, too.
The A+ Bee Issue 26: Book-It!
Get ready to cuddle a book, learn what Harry Potter artifact you are, write a haiku about your favorite book and be puzzled. This issue has it all!
Love & Canada: Whatever Happens, This Wedding Is Happening
“This week has involved a lot of needing to let go of all the things I can’t have total control over and I’m not good at that and I don’t like it but also maybe that’s okay.”
Love & Canada: How Is This Wedding In A Week?!?
“Fuck flowers. Fuck everything. We’re ordering about a hundred LED twinkling lights and I’m gonna stick gold washi tape on ’em and sprinkle them everywhere and call it a night.”
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue Fourteen, August 2015
“Four dollars and a Chipotle gift card to the person who can tell us the name of the vegan Ireland Baldwin met!”
A+ Podcast Episode Five: OMG SHUTUP!
Autostraddle senior editors and Everyone is Gay gave advice to live audience members at A-Camp 2015. Listen to their hilarious and thoughtful words of wisdom to queer girl problems!
The A+ Bee Issue Twenty-Five: Bee My Gal Pal
This issue has a playlist of songs for kittens at the spa, an amazing Haiku by Lydia and the triumphant return of both Mystery Solvers and Laura and Luna.
Love & Canada: Immigration Station
“I’ve never had a move that felt so little like being jolted from one space to another and so much like something clicking into place.”
Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #1
Where can I hang out with other queers in Portland? Is it okay that I was drunk when I filled out my A+ survey? Skins Fire: why? Why do straight people wear lesbian footwear? These questions of yours and more are answered in this here post.
Love & Canada: No Admittance Except On Wedding Business
“There’re only 135 hours or so until I get to Los Angeles and I can feel every single one.”
Interview With My Ex-Girlfriend: Mila
“I sent you a text overnight like, “I know this has been really hard but I’m gonna be home soon and I love you and it’s gonna be OK.” I woke up and you were like, “I can’t be your girlfriend,” and I… I was just blindsided.”
Love & Canada: A Little Less Conversation, A Little More Action
“I am still crying an amount that for me is significantly higher than average, what’s up with that?”
Gal Pal Chronicles: Rachel and Lizz Have Been Obsessed With Each Other Since Roughly 2008
Rachel: “The writing & philosophy class I was required to take freshman year mostly sucked. But there was this one girl, Lizz, who seemed cool. She wore comic book tshirts and had beautiful shiny hair. One day after class, I announced to a friend, ‘Lizz is not straight. I can just tell.'”
Lizz: “There was something about Rachel that I just couldn’t shake. She spent a lot of time quoting feminist theorists who I’d never heard of and she had what I would later come to call ‘Congenital Gay Face.'”
The A+ Bee Issue Twenty-Four: Y’all Ready for This?
This issue will make you want to take a Gal Pal tour around some tropical shit, go back in time and go to every Pride ever with the adorable Straddlers of this here nation, and hope with all hope that the Museum from Gaydventure will be a real place one day.
Love & Canada: Just So Much Canada
“After explaining who Shannon was in relation to me, we were let in to go through airport-like security around 7:40, I was handed a laminated piece of paper with ‘Applicant 1’ on it and an accompanying feeling of having won at waiting in line, and we were let up to the floor for the interview at 8.”
22 Excerpts From Laura’s Misanthropic Teen Diary, 2000-2003
“I became defensive and snappish and surly. I continuously blew him off and disagreed with everything he said. He called me closed-minded and I said, ‘ok.’ So he put headphones on and looked glumly resigned after having failed EVERY possible conversation topic, ruining everything.”
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue Thirteen, July 2015
“I asked Riese if she thought I would ever have sex again if I started wearing kaftans from World Market and she said no.”
Goodbye, California
“The threat to move to Michigan was always made in a specific context: some element of my life fell apart and I didn’t know how to fix it or myself.”
The A+ Bee Issue Twenty Three: Free to Bee You and Me
This issue is chock-full of vitamins, minerals, proms, plutos, Lauras, Lunas, and many more adventures!
Love & Canada: Life Finds A Way (To Get In The Way)
“I spent a few minutes wondering whether that means we should be married faster, i.e., the day after whenever I get there, and then I looked at the calendar and realized the timeline is as tight as it can be (and maybe too tight as it is) and I took a really deep breath and anyway it’s probably going to be fine. But it was one of those moments where it felt a little more like leaving Canada is giving something up.”