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.
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.
Top 10 YouTube Videos That Did Not Teach Me How To Dance
Is it possible to learn hot dance moves and wow all your pals on the dance floor just from watching YouTube videos? I decided to find out.
Tattoos and Disability: Surviving An Experience Not Everyone Can Handle
“I made a choice about how I would look, and didn’t realize until I’d done it how unprecedented that was.”
When Medicine Doesn’t Speak the Right Language for My Body
“Forming new habits isn’t easy, especially when your entire profession runs on a highly specialized vocabulary — but you know what else isn’t easy? Listening to how “abnormal” my body is.”
Meet The 7 Openly Gay Players of the National Women’s Soccer League
The NSWL kicked off its fourth season this weekend, making it the longest running women’s professional soccer league in United States history!
Disability and the Gym: Let My Body Do the Work
“I like toughness because it acknowledges an uncomfortable, complicated truth—that being disabled is hard—but rejects pity as an acceptable response. Instead, it gives my body credit for outlasting, adapting, and thriving in ways able-bodied people can’t imagine.”
50 Ways to Deal with the Aftereffects of Trauma
“The day begins when you say it does: I’m not talking about work. I’m talking about the soul.”
The Top 11 All-Natural Things That Help Me Calm The F*ck Down
“I’ve got anxiety, and lots of it. When my grandma sends me a Facebook message asking me to call home, I know everyone I love is dead. I know at least three serial killers live under my bed.”
You Need Help: Emerging From Your Hermitage
Like, I think about buying a coffee and then am like “no no self, you can’t do that – you would need to speak to a person.”
What Planned Parenthood Means to LGBT Women: The Roundtable
Autostraddle and A-Camp staff and family members are here to talk about what PP means to us as LGBT folks, and why we need it to be around for a very, very long time.
Gal Pals, Community, Money, Marriage, Bike-Riding and Acceptance Make LGBTQ Women Feel Healthier
Welcome to the first in a series of exciting discoveries from our survey of over 4,000 Autostraddle readers over the age of 29.
Working On It, Week 15: Taking A Hike
Hiking amidst fears of spiders the size of fists and also, separately, golf clubs.
The Big Queer Guide to IUDs
We’re here, we’re queer, we’re getting an IUD.
10 Super-Successful Lesbian, Bisexual & Queer Celebrities With Depression
Famous people: when it comes to mental health, a lot of them are just like us!
Working On It, Week 14: Easy As Falling Off A Paddle Board
Fruit, blogilates, and paddleboarding, oh my!
You Need Help: You Cry Much More Than You’d Like To and Feelings Are Really Hard
Why are you crying again? How are you supposed to handle this? What are feelings and why do you keep having them? Let’s find out!
Working On It, Week 13: Leaving It All Out on the Ice
In which ice skating is attempted and sugar is avoided.
How to Stop Biting Your F*cking Nails
There is a world in which your nails do not bleed onto paper and you don’t want to cry from how much it hurts to do anything with your hands (which is a lot of things), and it is a world you could most definitely come to live in in time.
Working On It, Week 12: There’s No Crying In Baseball
Batting cages, aquarobics and yoga, oh my!