Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for June 2016
This month is all about love as a learning process. We begin the month with Sun and Venus (our sense of self, and how we attract love) in Gemini–sign of curiosity, humor, and investigation.
The Starting Place: How an Unlikely Hiker Can Get Outdoorsy
A personal take on showing up, hiking through it, and knots and how to tie them.
Take Yourself on a Diarist’s Hike
Can you capture some of the magic of A-Camp’s Diarist Hike where you live? Based on my experiences, I’d say yes.
Notes From A Queer Engineer Recommends “Lab Girl”
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren is one of the most exquisite pieces of science writing I’ve ever read. As a researcher and professor of geobiology for the past 20 years, Jahren has earned accolades for her work. Here, she shares her passion.
10 Steps to Starting Your Own All-Grrl A Cappella Group
Just because you aren’t on the Mountain right now doesn’t mean you can’t be a part of your very own music and magic making group of friends. I promise you won’t regret it.
No Filter: Some Important Dogs
Celesbian dogs we’ve known.
For You: A Menstruation Cry Calendar
Ah, that beautiful transition in your monthly cycle where increasingly the things you cry at shift from understandable to irrational.
Reuse, Recycle, Repoussé: Beer Can Earrings
This week at A-Camp, we’ll be using all these cans to make simple repoussé earrings. If you’ve got a can waiting to be recycled, bust out your scissors and join us. And if not, I bet there’s something cold in your fridge just begging for you to drink it.
Straddler Nation: Building Safe(r) Spaces for Queers IRL
How do real-life communities based off of online ones maintain safe and inclusive spaces? Let’s talk about it!
5 Queer Poetry Slams and Open Mics From Coast to Coast
Poetry slams and open mics for queer poets of all stripes to try out.
A-Camp All Stars Recommend Their Favorite Comics!
Knowing that these A-Camp All-Stars live parts of their lives off the mountain and reading comics, I decided to ask some of them what their very favorite comics are.
The Unresolved Body in a State of Conflict
Often, when I’m having sex, a very specific thought runs through my head on a loop: “don’t touch me.” What gives? If I get so much out of being close to other people, shouldn’t sex be the ultimate way to prove it?
Pinterest Should Calm Down: Some More Internet Haikus
Who’s up.
How to Throw the Perfect (Gay) Soda Tasting for (Gay) You and Your (Gay) Friends
Soda tastings are great if you’re underage, you and/or your friends don’t drink alcohol, or you just want to mix it up. Also, soda’s way cheaper than wine. Wine tastings are so 2000 and late.
Also. Also. Also: The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team isn’t F*cking Around and Other Stories for Your Face
Links upon links upon more links! Three women stop a rape, Ellen wants to be the Vice President, U.S. women’s soccer team is ready to strike, Mars and Earth are getting cozy, $300 vagina massages, lesbian adoption, Colonial intersex history, Harry Potter Constitution lessons, Peaches and more, more, more!
Helping You Help Yourself #28
Getting back in touch with old friends despite awkwardness, what to do if you’re being underpaid, freshening up your mattress, organizing your tea and more!
14 Crawfish Recipes to Spice Up Your Spring
14 recipes for leftover crawfish boil tails hanging out in your freezer.
The Comment Awards Climbs A Mountain
This week we’ve got cat allergies, gay Life, short fiction and so much more!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is A One-Handed Read
Excerpts from super hot queer erotica short stories just for you.
Sunday Funday Will Talk About Being Queer Whenever She Damn Well Likes
Kate Brown opens up about her queerness in a commencement speech, a US Rep has no time for transphobia, Stephen Colbert just slammed Trump’s bathroom buffoonery, a whole lot of celebs like you, and more good news!