Advice

Autostraddle’s Ultimate Holigay Toolkit

A handy collection of our very best holigay content to help you make it through this special time of year. Good luck out there!

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Straddleverse

POST-HOLIDAY MERCH SALE: 20% Off Everything In the Autostraddle Store

You deserve it.

Straddleverse

OPEN THREAD: Another Year, Another Christmakwanzakah

Can we just put on holiday themed pajamas, sit by the fire place, and open gifts together? The gift can be a conversation or a hug or a puppy, I’m not picky.

A+

Autostraddle Family Photo Album: Let’s Celebrate the Holigays With Nostalgia!

I wonder what Laneia looked like in her winter coat as a small child, or what pose KaeLyn made in front of the Christmas tree when she was 4, or what wacky gift Riese’s aunt bought her one year. LET’S FIND OUT.

Autostraddle Gift Guide: Subscription Boxes

Society + Culture

Holiday Gift Guide: Last Minute Subscription Boxes for Last Minute Babes

If you’re a last minute giver, give the gift that keeps on giving with these groovy subscriptions!

Food and Drink

Holiday Gift Guide: For the Queers in the Kitchen

It would be the sweetest thing to gift your culinarily skilled loved ones with new swag for their kitchen.

DIY / Crafting / Food / Home Health + Athletics

Holigay Gift Guide: New Year, New You!

Two Things: First, I want nothing more than for you and your loved ones to start off 2018 being your best selves. Second, I checked this list. I checked it twice. Everything on it can still be delivered by December 25th (in case you are as much of a procrastinator as I am. No judgement! 2017 was hard, after all.)

Herstory

Lavender Menace Gift Guide: For Passionate Feminist Lesbians and Herstorical Queers

Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. Happy holidays!

Autostraddle Gift Guide: Sports At All Price Levels

Health + Athletics

Holigay Gift Guide: Perfect Presents for Sporty Queers and Gym Rat Gays

’Tis almost the season for gift-giving! Here are some suggestions for the fitness-focused cuties in your life. Happy shopping, and enjoy the benefit of all those post-exercise endorphins!

Autostraddle Gift Guide: Cameras and Photography

Health + Athletics

Holigay Gift Guide: Take a Picture, It’ll Last Longer

I have a fear that all we as a people are going to have in 20 years are lost phone photos and a terrifying facebook/tumblr archive SO here are some things to help you and yours document whatever is important to you right now.

Straddleverse

Holigay Gift Guide: The Hottest Hot Takes of All

Jem and the Holograms (2015) is a great movie and these are great gifts.

Fashion/Style

Holigay Gift Guide: Advice for My Mother on What Flannel to Buy My Butch Fiancée

“Can you sneak into her closet and take a pic of the ones she has (just side on hanging up is fine).”

Society + Culture

Holigay Gift Guide: Haunted Dolls For Your Spooky Loved Ones

Also, look, I’m a POC, I don’t mess around with haunted dolls, but maybe you do.

Society + Culture

Gifts To Help You Win at Dirty Santa (Which, Yes, Is a Competition)

The only thing standing between you and that sweet, thrilling thrum of victory is finding the perfect ridiculous gift.

Youth + Family

Gift Guide: Badass Gifts for Cool, Feminist Babies

Are you the hip AF parents of a small human? Do you aspire to the be the quirky aunt (or auncle) who always brings cool feminist gifts? Let’s shop for the babiiiiieeeees!

holiday illustration: cola cans, a december calender marked with hearts, and a pile of delicious holiday treats and food

First Person

How To Thrive As A Sober Queer During The Holigays

About eight months sober at that point, I had two thoughts scream through my mind at nearly the same time – first, “Oh hell yeah, all the whiskey at my fingertips” quickly followed by, “Oh hell no, this is cruel.”