Tale As Old As Time: Here Is Your Christmakwanzakah Open Thread!
I hope that however you decide to spend today you can grant yourself some grace and kindness — and that you pop in to hang out with us for a little bit!
holigays 2020
Home Alone for the Holigays: Celebrate Yule and Watch Brandy’s “Cinderella” with Meg
Yule this year is meant to be quiet, relaxing, comforting, and joyful. With so many new traditions beginning, and a few old favorites getting incorporated into this next chapter of my life, I feel full of hope in spite of the challenges this year has brought. Sending love and warmth to you and yours.
The Elf On The Shelf Is A Cop: We Need ‘The Anti-Fascist On The Bookcase’
The Elf on the Shelf as we knew him is dead. We need the Anti-Fascist on the Bookcase.
A+ Holigay Bingo: An Interactive Internet Family Activity
How many of these seasonal experiences do you share? You can tell us by screenshotting the bingo card below on your laptop or phone screen, marking off the ones that describe you in a visual editor of your choice (perhaps Preview, or the Markup option on your iPhone!) and sharing it in the comments here.
Style Thief: Happiest Season Is More Than Just Blazers (But Also We Found That Blazer)
“Simply put — there is nothing like a top in a great top.”
Home Alone for the Holigays: Watch “Grease 2” with Vanessa
“To be honest, my birthday is December 21 / Winter Solstice, and that’s the most exciting part of the holiday season for me!”
Holigay Gift Guide: Sex Toys for All Sensations
Today, toys are less about a harder better faster stronger version of more of the same, and all about the different ways it’s possible to experience pleasure and sensation.
Holigay Gift Guide: For the Reluctant Pandemic Chef
Kitchen gifts for beginners and people who get bored in kitchen. I mean, I love making dinner but also like damn we really gotta have dinner EVERY NIGHT?????!!!!
Holigay Gift Guide: Sexy Gifts Based on Quarantine Style
It’s time to normalize giving sex toys as gifts, and not just to partners. Everyone’s stuck at home anyway!
Home Alone for the Holigays: Watch “Oceans 11” with Carolyn
Welcome to Home Alone for the Holigays! Where our writers welcome you to spend the day with them virtually and live-tweet one of their favorite holiday films. Come kick it with Carolyn, watch Oceans 11 and escape into their sleepy Solstice.
Holigay Gift Guide: For The Loved Ones You Want To Survive The Apocalypse
Whether you’re convinced America is on the brink of collapse and want to get your loved ones some gear to survive the coming hellscape, or you think they could use some quality hiking and camping stuff so they can safely get outdoors and away from everyone else, this gift guide has you covered.
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!
Dedication and Liberation, or What Does a Queer Black Hanukkah Look Like
What does Hanukkah look like when you’re a queer, Black, convert who doesn’t find deep meaning in traditional celebrations of the holiday?
Home Alone for the Holigays: Watch “Black Christmas” with Dani Janae
Welcome to Home Alone for the Holigays! Where our writers welcome you to spend the day with them virtually and live-tweet one of their favorite holiday films. Come kick it with Dani, watch Black Christmas and have a mocktail or two.
Happy Holigays: Celebrate with A+ and 25+ Exclusive Discounts at Places You Love
We’re so excited to have put together over 25 opportunities exclusive for A+ members to save at some of our favorite places while supporting makers & business owners you can feel good about — get in here now to grab clothing, leather, jewelry, art, custom services and a LOT of sex toys. Haven’t joined A+ yet? A+ memberships start at just $4/month!
NEW MERCH ALERT: Tees! Sweatshirts! Stickers! Face Masks! QUEER! MAGNETIC! POETRY!
Buy something for you, your pod friends, your girlfriend, your ex girlfriend, your mom who’s secretly gay, your best friend who you’re secretly gay for, and your polycule.
Home Alone for the Holigays: Watch “A Diva’s Christmas Carol” With Shelli
Welcome to Home Alone for the Holigays, where our writers welcome you to spend the day with them virtually, and live-tweet one of their favorite holiday films, with the hope that it will make us all feel a little less alone this year.
Oh, You’re a Princess Switch 2? That’s Not What Your Outfit Says
So, in this movie with THREE Vanessa Hudgenses, there’s a Mockneck Mommi and a Bi Cottage Core Sub, but still not actual switches???
The Happiest Seasoning
While there’s broad societal acceptance of which season is the happiest season, what about the happiest seasoning? Considering the internet can’t really agree on what a seasoning even is, I realised I had my work cut out answering this pressing question. So, after minimal research and a commitment to “following the science” to the level of the average Western government, I present a shortlist of seasonings.
Autostraddle’s Ultimate Team Holigay Gift Guide 2020: Presents Produce Serotonin, Right? RIGHT???
“What I would most like is to sleep in a glass coffin in a secluded forest dale doted on by chirping woodland creatures until the butch of my dreams comes to wake me with a kiss in roughly mid-2021, but excepting that, I will take these things.”
How To Celebrate The Holigays From Afar: Lesbian Movies to Land Reparations
Lots of us will be spending the holigays on our own, which may be exactly what you’ve always wanted! But if you are trying to create a sense of togetherness, these activities might help you and your loved ones feel closer in far-away times.