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!
Does Project Ara Signal a Sea Change?
Google’s open hardware platform for creating modular smartphones is back, but it’s different.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: That’s Not My Name
“Nope nope nope. I’m Cameron.”
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: We’re Not At A-Camp and We’re Strong Enough to Admit It (Kind Of)
I have A-Camp FOMO, feelings about long distance besties, Joan Didion quotes and a lot of potato chips. Get in here and talk to me about it.
You Need Help: Will Studying Abroad Break Us Up?
Studying abroad or going long distance isn’t a death knell for a relationship, but I’m hearing something else in your question.
What I’ll Wear Camp Edition: Basking in the Matriarchy
This week I’m a short short enthusiast, an Earth Mother, and a Mother Earth stan.
Mama Outsider: When Your Mother Thanks You for Keeping Your Baby
“Instead, I jump back into the mind of the girlish woman I was at 28, the one who didn’t know enough about the consequences for unacceptable motherhood to plunge headfirst into the fire. It has taken me much longer than my mother to see the gift of my own naiveté.”
11 States Sue Obama Administration Over Bathroom Guidelines for Trans Kids in Collective Tantrum
The lawsuit in response to the Obama administration’s guidelines on trans bathroom usage in schools, Desmond Tutu’s daughter can’t officiate as a priest after marrying her wife, backlash against the Safe Schools Coalition in Australia and more.
A-Camp Fashion Trends for People Who Haven’t Started Packing
Feel free to say: “SOS, send help, everyone is too good-looking!”