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Give Money to a Mutual Aid Fund Instead of Giving Gifts This Holigay Season

Here are 16 mutual aid funds that we’re supporting this holiday season. Tell us about the ones that are closest to your heart, too!

By Vanessa| December 10, 2020 | 2 Comments
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Politics + Activism

Heartwarming Gifts for Burning Down the System: Shopping for the Protestors in Your Life

This holiday season, show your favorite anti-fascist that you care with a gift they can take into the streets.

By Malic White| November 19, 2020 | 8 Comments
Business + Work

Holigay Gift Guide: Planners for Your Most Organized Decade Yet

Planners can be so many things: super structured, super loose, artistic or woo-woo or politically radical or conservatively minimalist. Here are some options to start with for yourself or a loved one!

By Rachel| December 20, 2019 | 14 Comments
Society + Culture

Holigay Gift Guide: Some Cheer For Your Sad Friends

You might not be able to cure your buddy’s sadness, but you can definitely bring some holiday cheer into heart this season.

By Ari| December 12, 2019 | 45 Comments
Sex + Relationships

10 Non-Confrontational Gifts For Your Girlfriend’s Other Partner

Need a gift that says, “Don’t worry — I’m a great communicator and navigating non-monogamy in a culture that privileges monogamous partnerships is totally easy for me?” Never fear!

By Malic White| December 11, 2019 | 27 Comments
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Health + Athletics

Holigay Gift Guide: For Queer Hiking Babes of All Shapes and Sizes

Happy hiking, homos! I look forward to seeing you out there.

By Vanessa| December 11, 2019 | 4 Comments
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The Resistance

Holigay Gift Guide: Gear and Gadgets for Wilderness Survival

Have a queer survivalist friend who needs some new gear to round out their “get up and go” kit? Or a friend who just likes hiking and/or being outdoors but isn’t sufficiently prepared for the possibility of something going wrong?

By Abeni Jones| December 10, 2019 | 5 Comments
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Health + Athletics

Holigay Gift Guide: For Dykes Who Love Their Bikes

From the moment I got the training wheels off my Strawberry Shortcake bicycle in kindergarten to the starter mountain bike I got for high school graduation to the first bike I bought with my very own money, nothing has ever made me as free as cycling.

By Heather Hogan| December 9, 2019 | 27 Comments
Society + Culture

Holigay Gift Guide: Surprises For Your Favorite Stranded Babe

Whatever has your loved one stranded at home this season, perhaps they could use a little holigay cheering up!

By Adrian| December 6, 2019 | 8 Comments
Society + Culture

Holigay Gift Guide: Secretly Queer Gifts For Your Openly Straight Friends And Family

If your best buddy is going to heterosexually date, she can at least be queer about it.

By Malic White| December 5, 2019 | 5 Comments
Society + Culture

Holigay Gift Guide: For the Aspiring Witch in Your Life

Simple and accessible tools for reclaiming power and making a little magic.

By meg| December 4, 2019 | 2 Comments
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Holigay Gift Guide: Support These POC Indie Designers in 2019!

Whatever your feelings about consumerism and capitalism, we think that you’ll agree — it would be great if some of those funds found their way into people of color owned businesses and communities. Spread the joy of economic responsibility, racial justice — and really cute earrings — this holigay season. 

By The Speakeasy| November 29, 2019 | 5 Comments
Sex + Relationships

Holigay Gift Guide: What Do You Get the Sex Enthusiast Who Has Everything?

So, what do you get the person that already seems to own everything? Something weird, my pals!

By Archie| December 14, 2018 | 6 Comments
Fashion/Style

Holigay Gift Guide: Picking the Perfect Lingerie for the Babe in Your Life

Let’s be real: shopping for other people is already daunting. Shopping for lingerie and underthings? Holy eff. Here are some of the essentials to know when it comes to lingerie gift giving.

By Jeanna| December 13, 2018 | 10 Comments
Sex + Relationships

Holiday Gift Guide: Upgrade Everything in Bed with These Sexy Classics

These eight picks have everything you love in your favorite standbys, with upgrades and perks to make them the luxury you or a loved one deserve this holiday season. You’ve been very good this year; treat yourself!

By Rachel| December 12, 2018 | 3 Comments
Society + Culture

Holigay Gift Guide: For the Overworked & Underpaid

Long days and even longer nights just trying to make ends meet? We can’t change everything but taking care of the mind, body and soul (very original) can hopefully make it a little easier. Check out these gifts to do just that!

By Alexis| December 7, 2018 | 10 Comments
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Holigay Gift Guide: For Queer Radicals, Trans Revolutionaries, and Menacing Lesbians

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!

By KaeLyn| December 6, 2018 | 14 Comments
Sex + Relationships

Holigay Gift Guide: Kinky Gay Gifts for Your Naughty List

Let’s just cut the crap and say it: We’re Horny for the Holigays.

By Archie| December 4, 2018 | 9 Comments
Society + Culture

Holigay Gift Guide: Mommi and Me

When in doubt: MONOGRAM.

By Kayla| November 30, 2018 | 14 Comments
Fashion/Style

Holigay Gift Guide: Seasonal Butch Accessories For Staying Warm, Looking Hot

Some of you might be here because the weather changed and you need warm things, some of you are like me and can’t wait to buy shit for every season, and some of you just want to look cute and don’t know where to start.

By Mika| November 29, 2018 | 12 Comments
Sex + Relationships

Holigay Gift Guide: Let’s Scissor Under the Mistletoe

Scissoring: the greatest sex act in the world? Who would be foolish enough to make that claim? Me, and this gift guide!

By Archie| November 29, 2018 | 2 Comments
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