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First Person Travel

Why I Got Off the Pacific Crest Trail After 454 Miles Instead of Walking All the Way to Canada

I stopped hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in 2017 because of toxic masculinity and bro culture in the hiking community. It exists, it’s shitty, and it fucked me up.

Vanessa February 5, 2018 111 Comments
Community

Monday Roundtable: Are We Your (Enneagram) Type?

A few months ago, some of us took the Enneagram test and felt extremely uncomfortable with the truths it revealed about us. As fun as that was, we thought it would be even more fun to make even more Autostraddle staff do it and also share their results with a large audience. Let’s see if we were right!

the team February 5, 2018 57 Comments
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Health

Winter Gym Class: CrossFit, for Those Who Want It All

This workout has it all—cardio, weightlifting, rowing, kettlebells, and more—and you can do it indoors. It’s the perfect activity to get you through the winter weather and beyond!

Katrina February 5, 2018 14 Comments
Society + Culture

Sunday Funday is Working Hard and Staying Bumble on Super Bowl Sunday

Super Bowl LII commercial includes nonbinary person and lesbian couple, Detroit’s Black-owned honeybee hive that fights urban blight, the “gay best friend” trope except lesbian, super cute animal valentines for your gal pal-entines, an LGBTQ-inclusive super bowl party, portraits of LGBTQ people in India, and Remi’s A-Camp Family Band audition tape!

KaeLyn February 4, 2018 25 Comments
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Sometimes Fakes Orgasms During Lesbian Sex

Lesbian sex doesn’t always lead to lesbian orgasms. Plus: What the side you hug someone on says about your emotional state, how rudeness spreads like the flu, why you keep thinking about that girl you had barely three dates with and more.

Ryan Yates February 4, 2018 8 Comments
Recipes

Femme Brûlée: Raspberry Champagne Cupcakes That Taste Like Requited Love

If you make these this month I promise they will bring love into your life, whether it’s self-love for making a dozen of them all for you, or the love and adoration of others that you feed them to.

Reneice Charles February 3, 2018 23 Comments
Webcomics

Some Things: Waiting Period

I know the drill. A few weeks of feeling WEIRD.

Cameron February 3, 2018 6 Comments
Television TV Show Recaps

Boob(s On Your) Tube: “9-1-1” Reveals Its Lesbian Character JUST AS WE PREDICTED WITH OUR SUPREME TV GAYDAR

Plus Mariah and Tessa are back on The Young and the Restless, Lucifer remembers Maze is bisexual, The Fosters finally gives us another kickass Lena episode and Corrie reveals its queer affair.

Heather Hogan February 2, 2018 14 Comments
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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: The Stories We Tell Ourselves To Live

What stories do you tell yourselves in order to do what needs to be done?

A. Tony Jerome February 2, 2018 76 Comments
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The Comment Awards Are Signing Up for A-Camp!

“If Ventura is a ‘charmingly hip wine mom of a town’ does that make this the Mommi of A-Camps?”

Darcy February 2, 2018 22 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #256: Wearing Uniqlo Longjohns As Outside People Clothes

Topics include Dawson’s Creek, The Awl, Soulcycle, Negroni Season, Justin Timberlake in the woods, health care, “Rude,” The New York Times’ Style Section, RuPaul’s Drag Race and so much more!

Riese February 2, 2018 12 Comments
Gender

You Need Help: Reacting to Misgendering in Public

“Why can’t I just let it roll off me? And do you think there’s a way to react that might make the situation a little less miserable for me?”

Abbie Jones February 2, 2018 56 Comments
Culture

Straight People Watch: Winter 2K18

The holidays have come and gone, but straight people? Oh, they’re still here. More than ever.

Erin February 2, 2018 92 Comments
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Valentine’s Day Sex Toy Gift Guide For Even Hotter Lesbian Sex, If You Can Believe It

Sometimes Valentine’s Day is a patriarchal capitalist scam and sometimes you just want to eat some candy hearts and buy balloons and make out and unironically get into it.

Guest February 1, 2018 10 Comments
Music

Your New Favorite Music By Queer and Trans Artists To Check Out This Month

Here are five just-released albums/EPs/singles you should check out if you like queer women, gay boys, trans women, and the wonderful music that they make.

Abbie Jones February 1, 2018 13 Comments
Sports

5 Lesbian and Bisexual Women Athletes to Watch in the 2018 Winter Olympics

Here are five out lesbian and bisexual women athletes from all over the globe to cheer for in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Molly Priddy February 1, 2018 26 Comments
Geekery

“Monster Hunter World” Gives Gay Gamers the Gift of Fighting Alongside Cat Companions

Even if I don’t especially want to kill the dinosaurs, who have been killed enough by now in my opinion, seeing Budgie whacking a T Rex in the face with a lute that I made her to distract it long enough for me to chug a health potion really does just warm my heart.

dufrau February 1, 2018 10 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Let’s Hang In Lesbian Victorian London

Lesbian classic Tipping the Velvet turns 20. Plus mansplaining in the OED, RIP Ursula K Le Guin, Elena Ferrante’s new column and more.

Ryan Yates February 1, 2018 6 Comments
Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for February 2018

If you’re caught in a bad pattern, or can’t shake heartbreak or anxiety, ask yourself: what else might be true right now that I can’t see?

Corina Dross February 1, 2018 10 Comments
Television TV Show Recaps

“Black Lightning” Episode 103 Recap: All Aboard the Good Train #ThunderGrace!

Meet Grace Choi. She loves comic books, one day she will love Anissa Pierce, and she’s ready to light our hearts afire.

Carmen Phillips January 31, 2018 13 Comments
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