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.
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.
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
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.”
Gal Pals, Community, Money, Marriage, Bike-Riding and Acceptance Make LGBTQ Women Feel Healthier
Welcome to the first in a series of exciting discoveries from our survey of over 4,000 Autostraddle readers over the age of 29.
Missing Someone Gone While Raising Someone New
They call a child born after a loss a rainbow baby. The storm left a devastating aftermath, but this rainbow is bringing us daily joy.
Trick or (Pet) Treat: A Halloween Costume Shopping Guide for Furry Friends
Enter at your own risk! Things are about to get adorable.
Working On It, Week 15: Taking A Hike
Hiking amidst fears of spiders the size of fists and also, separately, golf clubs.
The Big Queer Guide to IUDs
We’re here, we’re queer, we’re getting an IUD.
Wild Child West: The End of the Road
Now I start over, and rebuild, and confront fear and learn to drive alone and figure out how to secure Eli in the loft so I can still snuggle with him at night. Now I have to hang the art I’ve collected from friends over the years, find a place for my autographed Eileen Myles books, and learn to do yoga. Now I need to meet all the versions of myself hiding in this city and make friends with every single one of them.
10 Ways Educators Can Make Schools Safer for LGBT Youth
We’re participating in GLSEN’s Ally Week and talking about how K-12 educators can become better allies to the LGBT youth in their schools.
Business Of Art Fix #14: Ad-Blockers Could Force Most Indies To Consider Paid Content
Topics include even MORE important thoughts on ad-blocking, how your XoJane confessional sausage gets made, Ann Friedman’s personal branding quest, the most hated beauty brand on the internet, advice for sending overdue e-mails and more!
10 Super-Successful Lesbian, Bisexual & Queer Celebrities With Depression
Famous people: when it comes to mental health, a lot of them are just like us!
Working On It, Week 14: Easy As Falling Off A Paddle Board
Fruit, blogilates, and paddleboarding, oh my!
You Need Help: You Cry Much More Than You’d Like To and Feelings Are Really Hard
Why are you crying again? How are you supposed to handle this? What are feelings and why do you keep having them? Let’s find out!
How to Deal With Credit Card Debt and Not Totally Ruin Your Life Forever
We’re here to talk about how to get out of credit card debt or, if that feels too big right now, how to manage your debt in such a way that it doesn’t keep you awake at night. Because neither you nor I are going to win the lottery tomorrow.
Follow Your Arrow: Blacksmith Willow Zietman on Returning to her Craft
“The one thing that is ‘typical’ about a day at the forge is that there is a lot of mess and noise, and that I sweat buckets and come home very dirty.”
Wild Child West: Into the Great Wide Open
“In the two weeks I’ve been on the road I’ve learned to be silent and reverent in the face of nature, to see myself in mountains and peel away the layers that tug me toward them, to feel at home in endless waves of grain, to become someone new in every new place.”
Working On It, Week 13: Leaving It All Out on the Ice
In which ice skating is attempted and sugar is avoided.
How to Stop Biting Your F*cking Nails
There is a world in which your nails do not bleed onto paper and you don’t want to cry from how much it hurts to do anything with your hands (which is a lot of things), and it is a world you could most definitely come to live in in time.