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VIDEO: Queer Mama Episode Two — How We Got Knocked Up
“There were good reasons we hadn’t started trying. But the bigger reason, which came out right there in a flood on cobblestones in the French Quarter, was that Simone wanted me to carry her baby, and that was maybe going to be impossible to achieve.”
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Here’s To Your Health: 5 Ways Bisexual Women Can Pursue Better Health & Wellness
Compiled from the wisdom of numerous reports, online resources and experts, here are five ways that you can take care of your own health, even in the face of high risks, economic pressures and often incompetent care providers.
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A+ Valentine’s Day Roundtable: From The Mouths Of Our Babes
In which our loved ones have something to say about the words we write.
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You Need Help: Your AD(H)D is F*cking Up Your Focus
Here’s what you do first: Close all those browser tabs besides this one, set aside all your other devices, and watch as I lay out these simple techniques to help you learn to rule the world (in easy-to-digest list form).
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Pretty Much Every Manischewitz Product, Ranked
“It’s like biting into a decorative soap. Whoever decided this was an acceptable form of dessert was a sadist of the highest order. If anyone ever offers you one of these items, escape immediately; this person is trying to kill you.”
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10 Tips For Surviving Your First Family Holiday After Coming Out
So you’ve recently come out to your family, and it’s the first time you’ve been to holigay dinner since it happened. Autostraddle is here to help you through it.
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Be A Person Who Gets Shit Done: A Gentle Guide
No new apps, intense #lifehacks or complicated productivity systems here — just solid habits to get into for an ass-kicking 2015.
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Holigay Party Time: Let’s Get Dressed!
Holigay time means good food, good friends, and hopefully bearable family, along with approximately a million and one parties of differing fanciness levels. I’m going to take you through a few different outfits so that you’re gonna be the best dressed queer at every party you attend!
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THANKSGIVING OPEN THREAD: Who Wants a Holiday Hug?
After you eat your turkey and drink your eggnog, come on in and cuddle up.
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“This Is A Book For The Parents Of Gay Kids”: A Coming Out Conversation with Bruce and Phyllis
I emailed my dad, Bruce, and my grandma, Phyllis, and asked if they’d like to have a three-generational conversation inspired by the book. They agreed, and so we all read it and converged on my dad’s house to discuss.
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You Need Help: You’re Not A Loser, Baby
We’re all striving for something — and that’s actually totally okay.
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10 Queer Feminist Icons You Can Be This Halloween
These costumes will make you look real smart and cool, even though you may have to keep describing who you are all night, but that’s OK.
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Queer Girl City Guide: Salt Lake City
“Gayest City”… not so much. But we’re cooler than you think!
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Ginger Ale, Outlets, and Crying: Our Travel Rituals in Roundtable Form
From packing to arrivals and back home again, we’ve all got our own way of doing things. In this roundtable, some of Autostraddle’s finest editors share theirs.
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Top Ten Ways For Non-Canadians To Celebrate a Gay Canada Day
There is so much LGBTQ Canadian awesomeness in this post that we can hardly believe it exists (there’s a PLAYLIST, even!), but that doesn’t mean we don’t need some more Canadian feelings from you.
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Sober in the City: Redefining My Queerness On Fire Island
Other than partying, what did we like, what were we good at, what defined us? One area that many LGBTQ individuals, including myself, struggled with was redefining what it meant to be queer. But, if being queer was synonymous with getting drunk, then how would I ever be able to define myself as anything other than a drunk?
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Getting Health Insurance: A Thing You Have A Few More Days To Do
“It hadn’t hit me until then how awful it had felt to be without insurance — like my life and health had been worth less than other people in this country. I didn’t even know how much of that I’d internalized until I had the stupid little card in my hand, and when it all went away.”
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Queer Girl City Guide: Charleston, South Carolina
Get to know the Lowcountry!
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It’s A Boy*!
It’s a boy, until and unless he tells us otherwise, I thought. It’s a boy who will be raised without gender roles. It’s a boy who will be defined by their heart and mind, not by the organs that happen to be between their legs. It’s a boy who will be loved wholly, deeply, and completely by the two women who created him.
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Top 10 Things I’d Rather Do With Tampons Than Put Them Inside Me
I dare you to walk into a Build-A-Bear with two large cartons of tampons.