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It’s A-Camp 2019 Campership Time: Apply For One, Donate Some Money

Read essays from our 2018 A-Camp Campership recipients and find out how to help send more lucky campers to this year’s celebration in Ojai!

By The Editors| February 15, 2019
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Introducing Camp Autostraddle XI

Join Roxane Gay, Be Steadwell, Nia & Ness, Gaby Dunn, Brittani Nichols and 400 LGBTQ women, non-binary people and other trans folks for five days of fun fun fun in Ojai, California!

By Riese| January 31, 2019 | 118 Comments
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A-Camp 2018, We Hold You In Our Hearts: The Autostraddle Roundtable

“I feel like this camp everyone really got to be their best, most honest and weirdest selves — for instance, and bear with me, when Sam and Riese and I created an intense trivia experience centered entirely around cults, true crime and murder and not only did people show up but many of the questions were TOO EASY FOR THEM.”

By the team| June 25, 2018 | 30 Comments
Food and Drink

5 Boxed Rosés, Ranked by Bang-for-Your-Buck by a Bunch of Inebriated Queers

Which of five wonderful rosés would be best for “listening to D-I-V-O-R-C-E by Tammy Wynette and feeling accomplished”? The answer to this question and so many more lie within this post.

By Riese| June 4, 2018 | 11 Comments
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25 NSFW Sex Collages Inspired By Your Queer Erotic Imaginations and/or Lesbian Sexual Fantasies

You came to “Sexing the Collage Cherry” and boi are your arms tired.

By Riese| May 31, 2018 | 18 Comments
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Oh, Hey! It’s Alyssa #48: Camp 2.0

A quick look back at A-Camp X!

By A. Andrews| May 30, 2018 | 26 Comments
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A-Camp X Was a Huge Success and We’d Like to Have Some Feelings About It Together

We just put on our largest and most successful iteration of A-Camp in Ojai, CA. We’d like to gush about it for a minute, please – won’t you join us?

By Vanessa| May 23, 2018 | 200 Comments
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Playlist: Feminist Disney Princess Jams

Sing along to your favorite feminist jams from your favorite Disney princesses!

By Ari| May 16, 2018 | 13 Comments
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How to Make a Sexy Leather Wallet (and Learn Basic Leatherworking Skills!)

Sew up an A-Camp craft right in your own home!

By Katie| May 15, 2018 | 3 Comments
Health + Athletics

Nervous About A-Camp? Let’s Do Some Grounding

What I’m getting at here is that staying grounded (even though it sounds like an oxymoron) gives you the ability to move.

By A. Tony Jerome| May 14, 2018 | 14 Comments
Camp Straddleverse

21 Kickass Brands Who Love A-Camp + Autostraddle

Many of these companies are small, queer and independently-owned themselves, which makes their donations to A-Camp even more amazing!

By Sarah| May 4, 2018 | 9 Comments
Sex + Relationships

Campership Alert: Go to A-Camp X for Free Thanks to LELO!

Win your ticket to A-Camp X and the fees for the shuttle from LELO! Here’s how to enter.

By Guest| March 23, 2018 | 6 Comments
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Campership Alert: GladRags Wants to Send You to A-Camp and Change Your Life

GladRags, a rad feminist company that makes comfortable, reusable menstrual products, wants to send one lucky human to A-Camp X for free! Plus, they’ll hook you up with the reusable menstrual product of your choice!

By Vanessa| March 16, 2018 | 8 Comments
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A-Camp Spring 2018: It’s Time To Donate and/or Apply for Camperships!

Read the heartwarming essays from some of 2017’s A-Campership recipients and learn more about donating or applying yourself! We’ve even got a tax-deductible donation option this year that you’ll wanna know all about.

By the team| March 1, 2018 | 9 Comments
Camp

Introducing Camp Autostraddle X

We’re going back to California to chill at the pool with Mary Lambert, Jen Richards, Liza Dye, Mara Wilson, Gaby Dunn, Be Steadwell, Brittani Nichols and a bunch of weirdos (that’s you!)

By Riese| January 30, 2018 | 148 Comments
Food and Drink

6 Box Wines, Ranked From “Capri-Fun” To “I’ve Had Worse” By 30 Drunk Queers

30+ queers gathered in a room to eat cheese curds and drink box wine. Now I will share the knowledge we obtained with you, because we’re a community and that’s how it works.

By Riese| June 1, 2017 | 25 Comments
Books

9 Essays and Memoirs To Make You A Better Writer

Read these if you want to master the art of the essay.

By Kayla| May 18, 2017 | 9 Comments
Geekery

The 13 Stages of Klub Deer, In Robots

I’d like to think that all of us are exactly where we’re supposed to be right now, doing exactly what we’re supposed to be doing. And if what’s required of you right now is to look at gifs of dancing robots, so be it.

By Laura Mandanas| May 17, 2017 | 7 Comments
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Campership Alert: Pool Party at A-Camp In Style Courtesy of Outplay

Do you want to go to A-Camp in an Outplay Swimsuit? Well, guess what; Outplay wants that for you too! Check out this Campership, y’all!

By A.E. Osworth| April 17, 2017 | 8 Comments
Camp

61 Ways You Weirdos Described Yourselves When Signing Up For A-Camp

“If I approached everything in life with the same determination and speed I put into changing into pajamas after work, I would be a highly productive person”

By Riese| April 12, 2017 | 101 Comments
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That Time We Put On a Dead Lesbian and Bisexual TV Characters Haunted House at A-Camp

It was both the best idea and the worst idea I’ve ever had.

By Riese| April 11, 2017 | 37 Comments
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