First Person

For Your Consideration: Knowing When It’s Over

You have to know when to end things, and you have to follow through with it.

Straddleverse

For Your Consideration: Donating to Autostraddle

For the past five-ish years, I have worked in the hellish, uncertain landscape known as the media industry. I have written for well over a dozen publications. None have made me feel more valued for my work than Autostraddle.

First Person

For Your Consideration: Bridges

When everything starts moving too fast, I like to walk on bridges.

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First Person

For Your Consideration: Introduction to Women’s Studies

I didn’t know then that Devon would become one of those women in my life who’s there for good, who I could not text for months and then suddenly dive right back in with. One of those friends who would show up, who would stay.

Food and Drink

For Your Consideration: Eating Seafood With Your Hands

Over the past four years, I fell in love, traveled many places, had my heart broken, unraveled. I also ate a lot of seafood platters. Here are some of them.

Sex + Relationships

For Your Consideration: 30 Slightly Unhinged Post-Breakup Activities That Aren’t Actually That Bad

Embrace a little chaos without getting in trouble with your therapist.

Advice

For Your Consideration: Asking for Directions

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but it is perfectly fine and legal to ask someone for directions when you are lost.

First Person

For Your Consideration: Changing Associations After a Breakup

For when wiping the slate completely clean isn’t really an option.

First Person

For Your Consideration: This Stupid F*cking Juice

This cold-pressed, organic, lacto-fermented, natural, biodynamic, raw juice is the answer to all my problems, surely.

First Person

For Your Consideration: Chaos Journaling

It’s like bullet journaling except not at all!

Food and Drink

For Your Consideration: Make the Bisque

Become a kitchen top, even if just for one day.

First Person Sex + Relationships

For Your Consideration: Read Your Enemy’s Horoscope

If you are seeking wise, wholesome advice about heartbreak, this is admittedly not the right place to find it today.

Books

For Your Consideration: Revisiting The Books You Loved in Middle School

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.

First Person Television

For Your Consideration: What (Not) to Watch After You’ve Been Cheated On

While recovering from being cheated on, you’re honestly best off bingeing unscripted cooking series or documentaries about serial killers or just not watching TV at all and instead playing The Sims, where you can create your own fantastical world where nobody cheats and where if they do there are immediate consequences.