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The Comment Awards Are Thinking of Her (The Wicked Witch of the West)

“It’s the Wicked Witch to queer kinkiness pipeline.”

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Community

A Goodbye Plan: 17 Queer Spaces Now That Twitter Is Maybe Ending

For many folks like me – Black, queer, and desiring connection – Twitter has served as a vehicle for dialogue, digital intimacy, and a lot of laughter. It’s hard to say goodbye.

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Thank You and Welcome to 550+ New A+ Members!

It’s impossible for indie media to exist without reader support!

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No One Cares About Queer People as Much as Queer People

“Some people grumble about how much “easier” younger generations have it.”

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The Comment Awards Are Foraging for Mushrooms

“Don’t talk to me or my 23,000 sexes until you’ve had a nice long think about cisnormativity.”

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Straddleverse

I am a Sucker for Romantic Comedies

“The dapper Black girl that danced and sang about the future had led me to a new corner of the universe and I was smitten.”

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Writing for Autostraddle Helped Me Find the Words for My Real Coming Out

“To come into myself, to really integrate my queerness as an essential part of myself, I needed to start telling the stories I had been holding in for so long.”

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Straddleverse

It Was Like Living on the Moon

“It was like needing food, and eating a pile of smooth, round stones instead. It was almost a life.”

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Ten Things I’ve Learned In My Four Years at Autostraddle

“I would rather the limitations be financial than be limits on my work, my voice, my personhood.”

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Straddleverse

I Focused My Time on Proving Her Wrong

“I remember telling my girlfriend at the time, ‘I’m going to write for them some day,’ to which she replied, ‘You can try but it’s pretty competitive. I don’t think you’ll ever be good enough to write for them.'”