Results for: Feel good
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13 Easy Houseplants for Seasonally Depressed Gays and Their Cats
Will these plants solve real mental health issues? Absolutely not, but they might make you feel more alive for the next few months, and also your cat can gnaw on them to its heart’s content, the asshole.
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Chill or Be Chilled: 10 First Date Ideas for When You Want to Keep It Casual
Coffee and drinks are easy, but why stick to what’s easy? Get creative, but not so elaborate that your date thinks you’re madly in love with them and about to propose.
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15 Crushes and the Art They Gave to Me
Listening to a song your crush recommends is a low-stakes window into their identity. It’s a way to get closer to someone, away from them. And isn’t that what a crush is all about? A solitary experience that has everything to do with the other person and at the same time nothing at all?
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Songs to Make You Cry in the Grocery Store, as Ranked Compared to “Fast Car”
A selection of emotionally devastating songs I live in fear of having to emotionally process in public without warning at CVS.
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The 14 Most Heterophobic Movies of All Time
As a queer person, it’s a relief to watch work like this. It gives us permission to just be free, to just be queer, to just be ourselves. That’s what great queer cinema can accomplish.
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Be The Change: 5 Ways to Create Safer Activist Spaces For Everyone
We have to commit to always learning and growing and doing more all the time to make our spaces better and better.
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Here’s What the Gillian Anderson Character You’re Most Attracted to Says About You
Obviously we all lost our shit over Gillian Anderson’s turn in “Sex Education,” but she has so many timelessly hot roles to choose from. Here’s what your deepest Gillian Anderson fantasy says about who you are as a person.
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20 of the Best Personal Essays on Autostraddle in 2018
We published so much good work this year, and here is a fraction of it we think you will particularly enjoy reading back through!
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20 Happy Lesbian and Bisexual Romantic TV Storylines That’ll Warm Your Heart Right Up
I like to power up my spirit by swooning at the TV. Maybe you do too?
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“Go The F*ck To Sleep!” 8 Ways to Kick Insomnia’s Ass
Sleep is the magic pill. Gotta get in on that.
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10 Times Lady Gaga Murdered Us On Live Television, For Example At the 2019 Oscars Last Night
Nobody plays a piano on a stage like Lady Gaga plays a piano on a stage!
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Tomboys of Literature: An Incomplete Survey
A subjective beginning exploration into the far-reaching but inconsistent landscape of literary tomboys.
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The 25 Best TV Shows Of 2018 With LGBT Women Characters
These are the television shows of 2018 that stand out for their artistry and innovation AND also feature lesbian, bisexual, queer or trans women characters.
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Cuffing Season: Five Tips for Anxious Dominants
Worried you can’t be a good Dominant because you’re too anxious or awkward? Don’t be.
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The Top 10 Feminist Movies (That Weren’t Technically Gay) of 2018
As I’ve written and tweeted and whispered into the night repeatedly, 2018 was a stellar year for queer women on the big screen. It was also a very good year for women, in general, in film.
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16 Gay Holiday TV Episodes You Can Stream Right Now!
13 Christmas and three Thanksgiving episodes full of lesbians in matching two-piece pajamas, bisexuals in endearing sweaters, and a trans woman dressed up as a literal Holigay Angel.
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8 Crime Books Featuring Women Loving Women & Other Queer People
These awesome eight crime books, including mysteries, thrillers, and true crime, all feature queer women!
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Autostraddle’s Ultimate Holigay Toolkit
A handy collection of our very best holigay content to help you make it through this special time of year. Good luck out there!
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Five Steamy Lesbian Reads for the Holidays
Are they literary heavy hitters for which you’ll need a thesaurus and previous experience reading Nietzsche? No! Are they fun romps through a winter wonderland with queer characters? Yes! Are said characters often trapped in places and hate each other at first but then fall in love and there’s really no risk except that which makes the love even more defined? Yes!
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25 of Your Most Alarming Travel Nightmare Stories
You shared some very thrilling stories with us on our recent Queer Travel Survey. Here are highlights of your adventures!