Christmas

Holigay Gift Guide 2015: Bring on the Flannel, Hold the Shirts

If you want flannel boxers to wear under your flannel dress and then later inside your flannel sleeping bag, it’s all here.

Money + Work

The “Who Pays Writers” Conversation Needs a Little Nuance

Holding The Rumpus to the same standards as The Huffington Post is ridiculous.

Community Travel

Get Out There: From Local Parks to Local Politics

A bunch of us went out over the last two weeks to see historic places and explore local nature. Come see what happened when we #GotOutThere and find out what challenges we’re doing next!

Money + Work Music

Follow Your Arrow: Musician and Furniture Maker Sean Desiree on Small Steps Towards Big Dreams

Musician Sean Desiree — who alone makes up all parts of the indie band bell’s roar — explains how they juggle being a musician by day with running a furniture-making business by night, how they learned to deal with rejection, and what’s it’s like being a queer person of colour in an industry and genre dominated by straight white men.

Halloween Straddleverse

Friday Open Thread: IT’S HALLOWEEN

I will carve a pumpkin, dammit.

Money + Work

This Business of Art Fix #15: A Day Late and $30 Million Dollars Short

Time buys xoJane and HelloGiggles, NEWS FLASH women’s media has a better chance of getting funded when a man owns it, more news from the facebook apocalypse, and a 700-word apology for being late.

Community Travel

Get Out There: Let’s Explore The Heck Out of The Places We Live

I’m back in Austin after a few good years spent abroad, and I’m making it my mission to see adventure in my everyday life. I want to find people here who are my people, and get to know my city — and I’m challenging all of you to join me!

Halloween

Alien Actualities: A Halloween Makeup Tutorial

Hello spooky babes, resident alien Tayler Smith here to bring you an affordable look for Halloween that’ll have you lookin’ outta this world.

Money + Work

Follow Your Arrow: Writer Alexandra Franzen on How Words Change the World

Over the years, I’ve gotten emails from people who have said things like, “You inspired me to quit my job and pursue my real passion.” I want everyone on the planet to experience that same feeling — that feeling of knowing, “I matter, I am helping, I am making a difference,” whether you’re connecting with an audience of 1 person or 10,000.

Halloween

One Black Unitard, Three Badass Lady Costumes

Don’t get caught rocking the same costume during this entire month of mischief.

Halloween

11 Witch Costumes That Skip the Pointy Black Hat

I’ve got witches from folklore and myth, witches from TV and movies and even witches from real life, and none of them are wearing pointy black hats.

Halloween

Be a Good Guy or a Bad Guy With These Nerdy Halloween Costumes

If being the hero isn’t your style, you can always be the villain.

Health

What Planned Parenthood Means to LGBT Women: The Roundtable

Autostraddle and A-Camp staff and family members are here to talk about what PP means to us as LGBT folks, and why we need it to be around for a very, very long time.

Halloween

9 DIY Superheroine Costumes For Halloween Heroics

From DC Super Hero Girls to Arrow to Agent Carter, a list of DIY costume tutorials for your favorite TV superheroines.

Parenting & Family

12 Ways I’m Still a Total Punk After Becoming A Mom

I hold on to those principles of starving artist days past and strive to integrate them into this new realm of diapers, strollers, and temper tantrums

Food and Drink Money + Work

Follow Your Arrow: Coffee Roaster Tara Brown on Courage, Connections and Simple Pleasures

“A-Camp was sort of a turning point for me. We were talking about building a year-round Autostraddle community and it was decided that I’d be the coffee roaster. I was like, ‘Well, guess I better get good at this coffee roasting thing.’ You can’t have mediocre coffee in a queer commune. I started actually writing a business plan the next weekend.”