Results for: Feel good
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You Need Help: Getting It On After Hip Replacement Surgery
The good news is: your wife’s new hip will probably make your sex life even better! Here’s some tips for easing back into it.
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All of the Ultimate Back-To-School Advice for College-Bound Queers
There is literally no incorrect way to do college and Autostraddle staff are the proof.
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You Need Help: People Are Nosy About Your Binder
What to do if your friends and family start asking about that new binder you’re wearing.
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You Need Help: So Your First Girlfriend Broke Your Heart — Now What?
In which we discuss the concept of safer dating.
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Y’All Need Help #2: You Can’t Avoid Your Ex Forever
Quick and dirty advice for a brand new lesbian in Chicago, a small town bird who’s ready to be in the same room with her ex, and someone who’s tired of being The Gay One. Get in here!
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You Need Help: Charm Your New Gal Pal With The Perfect Gift
You think someone is cute, and they think you’re cute, and you want to make them happy but preferably without being an awkward overeager weirdo. I feel you.
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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.
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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.
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You Need Help: Starting Over at Thirtysomething
You just broke up with your partner, you’re buying IKEA furniture, moving into a share house and you’re sad — how do you become a functioning adult again?
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How to Get a Credit Card and Not Totally Ruin Your Life Forever
All credit cards are not created equal. Here’s what you want to look for in a new card or your very first card.
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The Story of “No”
This year, from April 20th until June 12th, I made some variation of “no” my Facebook status every day. It was just something I found vaguely funny but by the end it was something that I could count on for strength.
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You Need Help Helping Your Parents: Cis People Teaching Cis Parents To Be Trans Allies
It will take time. It will take a lot of patience. It will be worth it.
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This Shit Rules: Damage Control
“I really couldn’t tell you what monoi oil is, but I like to imagine it is suckled from the nipples of woodland nymphs.”
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A Guide To Great First Dates for Gals Seeking Pals
Let’s help each other find love, or at least have a decent time with another human for 2-5 hours!
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No White Tears: A Non-Guide on Dealing with Microaggressions from Your White Partner
This is not a how-to guide; there’s no right way to navigate these situations. Let’s share instances of microaggressions and some ways to deal in the hopes we’ll all be able to make it out alive, looking sexy and loving our hardest.
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You Need Help: You Think You’re Bad At Sex
“Forget all your ideas about what the person across the table from you might want until they tell you so you can actually listen when they do.”
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You Need Help: What’s My Label?
“We want these labels to tell us who we are and what we want because figuring out who we are and what we want in a big expansive lawless space is HARD.”
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7 Ways to Not Get Murdered By a Bear
With summer (and A-Camp) fast approaching, I think it is a good time to remind ourselves how to not be a bear’s dinner.
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You Need Help: Your Girlfriend Has Body Issues And You Want to Initiate Sex
If you wait until your girlfriend with body issues is feeing just really attractive and good about herself to approach the idea of sex, you are, sooner or later, going to stop having sex together. Period.
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You Need Help: Negotiating A Queer Bachelorette Party
You want to have a bachelorette party together, but your girlfriend loves the spotlight and you don’t. Here’s how you navigate that.