Queer Crip Love Fest: Love Is Showing Up
For the final installment of Queer Crip Love Fest, we turn the cute up to 11.
Miniseries
AM/PM: Caffeine and Twitter
I like to think my morning routine screams “I’M A WRITER” but it probably mostly just screams “I DON’T TAKE GOOD ENOUGH CARE OF MY BODY.”
AM/PM: Nothing But The Morning
Welcome to AM/PM, where Autostraddle team members share our morning and evening rituals. Let’s see how Carolyn starts her day!
Queer Crip Love Fest: Nana’s Stories and Ginger Loaf
“I think for many of us as disabled folk, we’ve come to terms with what we experience — but Nana’s experience of dementia is sort of different in that she doesn’t always know what’s happening or who and what she can trust. We can be empowered about disability at the same time as acknowledging that some of it really, seriously fucking hurts.”
Queer Crip Love Fest: In Control of My Own Narrative
“It’s interesting and refreshing to be in this time period where authors are resisting in their own way.”
Queer Crip Love Fest: Who Will Be My Emergency Contact?
On love and community after a breakup.
Queer Crip Love Fest: More Seen Than I’ve Ever Felt
An A-Camp love story to help ease your comedown!
Poly Pocket: Polyamory As All Possibility
Here’s how a 23 year old polyam queer femme living in Long Beach, CA, in a long-term relationship does poly.
Queer Crip Love Fest: We Make it Radical
“I try and proudly practice calling my body home, to truly inhabit my body, to feel what it feels like to live inside these muscles that bend and curl, and to feel proud of it, and no longer ashamed. This is queer crip pride.”
Poly Pocket: Figuring Out Where To Start
How a single 31-year old pansexual non-monogamous Black woman living in Los Angeles is starting to explore poly.
Queer Crip Love Fest: Insider/Outsider
“I feel affinity for parts of Asian communities, neuerodivergent communities, queer communities and kink communities. I don’t really feel completely invested in one place. It’s always been like that.”
View From The Top: Where I’m Going
I feel lighter than I’ve been in a year. I feel ecstatic with the possibilities. I feel giddy, like I’m falling in love.
Poly Pocket: If You Don’t Take Care Of Yourself, It Just Doesn’t Work
“I have a relationship to myself first. If that relationship isn’t solid and healthy I’m not good with anyone.”
This Queer Fat Femme Is Thru-Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, and You Can Follow Along
Vanessa is thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail this summer and she’s taking us with her! Follow along as she walks 2,650 miles from Mexico to Canada.
Bottoms Up: I Am Enough
I get it now. Hot toppy girls will like me just as I am or they won’t get to like me at all. I am good enough.
Queer Crip Love Fest: Parenting at the Intersections
“Before becoming a parent, I looked at parenting through rose-colored glasses — with an able-bodied person’s perspective. It was drilled into my head by other people, well-meaning as they were, that I probably shouldn’t have children.”
View From The Top: Where I’ve Been
Before any of my other sexuality identities, I was kinky.
Feelings Rookie: Hopping Off the Plane at L.A.X. With a Dream and a Cardigan
Fitting into Los Angeles wasn’t going to happen for me. Or so I thought, until I stopped trying.
Poly Pocket: Balancing Comfort and Desire
How a 23-year-old bisexual polyamorous nonbinary femme xicanx in two very loving relationships does poly.
Bottoms Up: Earn It
It’s not that I don’t want to submit, it’s that submitting is so different from how I have to conduct my life that it takes effort to turn off that HBIC part of me so that I can relish letting go.