If casual dating is a thing you want, you can do it! I believe in you / us / our ability to not get married on the third date.

Nothing stays the same forever, and that includes our bods; here’s the Autostraddle team talking about how they’ve noticed their bodies aging and what that’s like.

“Maybe I could teach you how to do that and you could teach me a couple of things I’ve been wonderin’,” I told her. She shook my hand. It was a deal.

You’d be surprised the kind of memories that can be sparked by a simple phrase or even by the look and feel of a book.

They say you learn your first lessons about how to be a person from your family, and that applies to chosen family, too. Today we’re sharing something we learned from watching another Autostraddle staffer that’s made our life better and brighter.

May we all be the sex-positive gay older sister that Anissa Pierce reminds us to be, telling the little sisters in our lives to masturbate whenever they feel the need.

[photo of Karen cleaning out the A-Camp Wisconsin storage bin in 2018]

“I hadn’t yet come to terms with being a lesbian, so I also spent a lot of time making excuses not to have sex.”

In the new year, let’s say goodbye to relationship drama and welcome stronger ties.

Everything you wanted to know about personal finance, but unabashedly queer and radically inclusive — Dunn’s ready to help you get your shit together and stop feeling alone with your money troubles.

“My style icon is Nancy Meyers’ interpretation of a middle-aged white woman after she’s decided to pull herself together sometime in the second act. Wow that is… I feel very called out by own self.”

“You know how to make a point like no other laneia, and it is literally a joy every time”

Teen asylum breakouts, maple syrup torture, hot moms who weld, mass seizures — this show really does have it all.

What Shapeshifters has done here is made binders where the point of them goes beyond the normal utilitarian point of a binder. And honestly? We deserve that!

It’s our last TV list of 2018!

Where the hell is Cheryl? Do we think things will come full circle for her and she’ll be the one to break her dear cousin out of the Sisters Of Quiet Mercy? Does Riverdale have any real plans for her this season?

There were a lot of awesome 2018 queer books. Here are the year’s best!

“That duck for sure has an Alternative Lifestyle Feathercut.”

The age-old challenge: what to get for your rad, free-thinking, take-no-BS, burn down the cisheteropatriarchy, revolutionary friend or loved one? Capitalism sucks. These gifts don’t!

Vete a la mierda Cristóbal Colón! It’s Thanksgiving weekend, and whether or not you “celebrate,” I wanna talk to you about traditions and reclaiming shitty things! Get in here!