Julie, Brandy and Grace at A-Camp 2.0 (Angelus Oaks, CA)

A-Camp (Angelus Oaks, CA)

A-Camp 2.0 (Angelus Oaks, CA)

Ara & Austen at A-Camp (Angelus Oaks, CA)

Bad Romance at A-Camp 1.0 (Angelus Oaks, CA)

Even the most “accessible” queer fashion can feel intimidating when you only see it on celebs – that’s why we’ve assembled real-life queers to show you how real people are wearing wardrobe staples and celeb-inspired fashion. Today: gay boots!

How about a little Valentine’s Day inspiration from your favorite fictional couples?

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.

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

We published so much good work this year, and here is a fraction of it we think you will particularly enjoy reading back through!

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.”

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!

Betty Who’s new music video, bilingual children’s books about gender neutral pronouns, and an Israeli-Palestinian lesbian stand up couple, Hayley Kiyoko’s killer year, and more!

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

“My favorite thing in the world is when people ask if it’s a mood ring so I can say yes.”

Queer, bisexual and lesbian trans women exist and thrive and belong here.

If you’ve got 15-20 minutes to tell me how and why you travel and where you go and what you do there and how you feel about it on a few different levels, it would be so great. Note: this is not the same travel survey we told you about last week!

“I’d actually never even seen a woman in a blazer before. Like a men’s cut blazer. It really was like Fun Home. Inside I really did feel like I KNOW YOU!”

“It’s the urgency of being a girl, in the broadest sense of that admittedly binary term, of being a marginalized person and knowing in your heart that you have the power to change your world.”