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Holigay Gift Guide 2016: (More) Books for the Queer Academic

What do you get for the person who is perpetually tired, underpaid, and overworked? More books, obviously.

Ari December 8, 2016 21 Comments
Christmas

Holigay Gift Guide: Grease Is The Word For Updating Your Style

If you’re looking for a way to retool or update your aesthetic, there’s no better inspiration than Grease.

Mey December 8, 2016 7 Comments
Christmas

Rebel Girls Gift Guide: What to Buy Your Favorite Feminist for the Holigays

If there is anyone in your life currently in need of a truly empowering and also on-brand gift which to utilize to further the progress of our nation or look woke AF, it’s the feminist you know and love.

Carmen December 7, 2016 8 Comments
Christmas Pets & Animals

Holigay Gift Guide 2016: Stocking Stuffers for the Cat (Lover) in Your Life

When shopping for gifts for your cat-loving friends, it’s best to keep that idea in mind and buy things that not only are for the cat-lover but are also for the cat.

Ari December 7, 2016 15 Comments
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Searching for that perfect combination of versatile sex toys? Here you go.

Guest December 6, 2016 11 Comments
Christmas

Holigay Gift Guide: Support Nonprofits And Celebrate Your Loved Ones

Give your friends and family a gift that will make a difference in the lives of people most likely to be affected by a Trump-Pence administration by supporting a worthy nonprofit or activist organization in their name.

Adrian December 6, 2016 6 Comments
Christmas

Holigay Gift Guide: Seasonally Relevant Things for People in Warmer Climates

How do I embrace all the things about the season that I love in a place where sometimes I don’t even remember the leaves change color? Obviously by conning one of you into buying me this sh*t.

Carmen December 6, 2016 8 Comments
Christmas Geekery

Drawn to Comics: Gifts to Impress Your Queer Comics Crush

In light of this acceptance that I’m attracted to nerds, and with the understanding that there are probably lots of you who are attracted to nerds too, I decided that I’d put together some suggestions for gifts you can get for that special nerdy crush in your life.

Mey December 6, 2016 10 Comments
Christmas Food Lists

20 Christmas Candy Recipes For When You Get Tired of That Bowl Full of Jelly

It’s almost Christmas! Still doesn’t feel like it, though. But maybe that’s because we’re not eating enough homemade seasonal candy, y’know?

Carmen December 5, 2016 9 Comments
Christmas Shopping

Holigay Gift Guide: Gear For The Traveling Photographer

Cameras and bags and tents and lenses and cameras and cameras and cameras.

Molly December 5, 2016 7 Comments
Christmas

Holigay Gift Guide: What to Buy for Your Work-from-Home Pal

Even the most organized freelancers could probably stand to be a little more organized.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya December 1, 2016 7 Comments
Christmas Community

Come Gather, All Ye Gentlequeers: It’s Autostraddle Holigay Meet-Up Season!

I am determined to find joy and then somehow figure out how to make it contagious in an attempt to heal the world! I’m also here to enlist you in said mission by encouraging you all to get into the spirit and host some holigay meet-ups!

Carmen November 30, 2016 89 Comments
Christmas Sex Toys

Holigay Gift Guide: Sex Toys for Trans Women

Obviously, a lot of toys you’d buy for a cis woman are great, but also, let’s be real, trans women have some special needs and desires.

Mey November 30, 2016 8 Comments
Christmas

Autostraddle’s Ultimate Team Holigay Gift Guide 2016: What We Want Besides A Revolution

It’s that time again! For the EPIC ENORMOUS gift guide in which all of us tell you what we want and then you go get the things for somebody else.

Carmen November 29, 2016 43 Comments
Christmas

Gift Guide: What to Ask For if You Want Your Friends to Be A Little Scared of You (In a Fun Way)

Being a little scary is such a great look. It’s why so many people are into Scorpios and Slytherins.

Mey November 25, 2016 24 Comments
Christmas Sex Toys Sponsored

Holigay Gift Guide 2016: Buying Someone A Sex Toy? Start Here.

Whether you want to say “I love you,” “I have a crush on you,” or “I genuinely want you to be happy and maybe have a lot of orgasms,” we’ve got the sex toys for you.

Ryan Yates November 23, 2016 15 Comments
Christmas Shopping

Aggressively Adorable Gifts to Make the Long-Distance Dating Struggle a Little Easier

Ease the sting of distance with these mostly practical (but yes, some are sappy… DISTANCE IS HARD, y’all) gifts.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya November 22, 2016 9 Comments
Christmas

OPEN THREAD: Get In Here and Spend Christmakwanzakah With a Bunch of Queermos

HAPPY HOLIGAYS TO ALL, AND TO ALL SOME REPLIES!

Carmen December 24, 2015 320 Comments
Christmas Recipes

I Made Tamales With My Mom for Christmas; Here’s How You Can Too

For me, making tamales is a way for me to connect with my mother, to feel like her daughter, and to take parts of herself that she’s passing down and make them a part of myself.

Mey December 21, 2015 23 Comments
Christmas

10 Imaginary Lesbian Christmas Films to Grow Your Holigay Heart Three Sizes

“Janeane Garafalo stars as Helen, who considers herself a witch first and lesbian second.”

Erin December 17, 2015 47 Comments
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