Be The Change: Totally Rocking Small Group Breakouts

Facilitating a small group requires skills that aren’t always intuitive. I’ve got some tips and tricks and types of small group breakout sessions to help ya’ out!

NSFW Sunday

NSFW Sunday Is Celebrating 10 Years Of The Adipositivity Project

The Adipositivity Project, accessing your own pleasure, how to bring up safer sex, how to get over sex-related hang-ups, new theories on oxytocin in relationships, lots of nipples, and more.

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Sunday Funday Has a Hallmark Greeting Card for Jackie Cote and Dee Smithson

Hallmark now has an LGBTQ collection including cards to celebrate transition, Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden are white men that are acceptable humans I guess okay, Wal-Mart settles landmark lawsuit brought by lesbian employees, a sexy new video from Keeana Kee, and more neat-o skeat-o stuff!

Geekery

Four Affordable Games with Weird, Escapist Worlds For Escaping To

These games were low or no-cost investments for me that have yielded hours of forgetting exactly how bad things are right now.

Straddleverse

Friday Open Thread: Be Honest, How Nerdy Are Your Weekend Plans

I’ll be doing a read-a-thon, nbd. What are you up to? Get in here and tell me about it!

Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Into Your Grandma

Your grandma sounds like a babe, I don’t know what else to tell you.

Queer Fashion

Show Us Your “The Weather Is Finally Good” Style!

I’m ready to see your warm weather looks, so do me a solid and contribute to Autostraddle’s “The Weather Is Finally Good” outfit gallery!

Playlists

Playlist: Masturbation Month

In honor of MM, I’ve put together this playlist for you. And lemme tell ya, it was exciting — so exciting that I had to close the blinds and burn some incense and imagine Sadé serenading a clone of Sadé in a bathtub filled with rose petals and surrounded by 100 tea lights.

Geekery Shopping

Relevant To Your Interests: The Nerdiest Birthday Cards I Could Find

I found twelve really nerdy birthday cards for the really nerdy people in your life.

Dating

Poly Pocket: Polyamory As All Possibility

Here’s how a 23 year old polyam queer femme living in Long Beach, CA, in a long-term relationship does poly.

Queer Fashion

8 Of the Hottest Fat Fashion Trends for This Summer

Other great trends for this fat queers this summer include aliens, tweed, Bodysuits and beachwear as formal wear.

Sex

22 Easy Steps to Rethinking Your Whole Relationship Through Late-Night Nudes

Is that insecurity in my pocket or have you just not sexted me back yet?

Queer Fashion

Style Thief: How To Dress Like Sia

Here’s how you can dress like Sia — even if you’re not up for the giant, vision-blocking wigs.

Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Dee Rees Is Making a Black Lesbian Horror Film With the Producer of “Get Out”

Plus: Lena Waithe opens up about her Master of None coming out episode, Arrested Development is coming back again, the first trailer for Battle of the Sexes, and more info on Aubrey Plaza’s new movie.

Politics + Activism

Five Lessons Today’s Queer Activists Can Learn From ACT UP

Five lessons that start to explore just how much we can learn from our queer and trans forebears in AIDS activism.

Geekery

The 13 Stages of Klub Deer, In Robots

I’d like to think that all of us are exactly where we’re supposed to be right now, doing exactly what we’re supposed to be doing. And if what’s required of you right now is to look at gifs of dancing robots, so be it.