What Actually Useful Things Did You Learn From Your Exes?
So grateful to our exes for opening our eyes to these tips and tricks and vital life skills. No really, we’re actually grateful. Sarcasm-free.
Roundtables
“I’m Not Done Living My Damn Life Yet”: Disabled Queer People Speak Out on the American Health Care Act
“It’s a harsh reality that I will be priced out of my own life at this point if the AHCA gets passed and, quite frankly, I’m not done living my damn life yet.”
7 Queer Disabled Folks On Why Air Travel Is Kind of a Nightmare
“The ADA tends to disintegrate in the hands of airlines and their staff, especially for POC and QTPOC, and it doesn’t matter if the law is on your side.”
Dapper Crip: Queercrip Encounters with Fashion and Community
“Embracing accessibility begins with representation.” Here, Kay Ulanday Barrett, QueenTite and Jax Jacki Brown explore queer communities, accessibility, and who is deemed fashion-able.
I Need Justice, I Need Peace: A QTPOC Roundtable
It felt important for us to have a voice somewhere, so we’ve gathered a few of the Black queer voices and put them together here. We want to offer this as a place of healing for QTPOC in this time of tragedy.
Our Hands, Ourselves: A Deeply Unscientific Investigation of Identity
“I can never remember which finger is supposed to make me gay. I guess this is part of the whole indecisive bisexual thing.”
Labels: For Jelly Jars, For Lesbian and Bisexual People, Or For Both?
ELLE Magazine asks if we’re post-LGBT because Kristen Stewart and kids these days just aren’t labeling themselves like they used to and so in this post what happens is that we all talk about the labels we use for ourselves and then y’all can talk about that or whatever you want, really.
Why We Are Witches: An A-Camp Roundtable
“Witchiness is in my family: my people are the original hilljacks. I grew up with stories about my great-grandma Fern who traveled around Appalachia holding seances where she raised spirits and tables.”
What Does It Mean To Be A Queer Adult? The Autostraddle Roundtable
What does it mean to be a queer adult? We’ve got mini-essays from our writers over thirty and three glorious infographics that look at census data and our own Autostraddle Grown-Ups Survey Data to get a grip on what happens next.
Out of Our Parents’ Closets
Whether we’re trying to send a “f*ck you” to a homophobic dad or an “I love you” to a mom who can’t hear the words any more, it means something to share threads with a person who spawned you.
Let’s Talk About Sexting: A Roundtable
Sometimes a sext is just a sext, and sometimes it’s something else entirely.
We Love The Library So Much: 13 Autostraddle Writers On Their Favorite Libraries
Libraries give us the chance to know something about ourselves and we love them.
Roundtable: On Coming Out In Our Applications, Interviews, and Lives
Should you tell your dream school that you’re queer in your college application? What about your future employer? The New York Times got us talking about this so we put together a roundtable and now we wanna know how you feel, too.
Teach Me Your Ways: The Teachers Who Helped Make Us Queer
Many of us were lucky enough to have teachers who didn’t make us queer as such, but they did help make it a little easier on us, sometimes even before we knew it about ourselves. Here’s to them.
Being Queer And Spiritual (Or Not): The Autostraddle Religion Roundtable
There’s a lot to say about religion and queerness and how the two can (or cannot) interact, which is why we put together this roundtable with 12 different perspectives. We hope you share your own thoughts and beliefs in the comment section.
Roundtable and OPEN THREAD: Our Most Significant Sandwich Memories
“So when we grilled these maple-laced caramelized onion Gruyère behemoths on a rainy evening and neither of us lost an eye, I knew she was a keeper.”
Masturbation Memory Lane: Roundtable and Open Thread
Autostraddle staff talks anonymously about when they started masturbating, among other things. Join us, won’t you?
Why Do Gay Men Keep Touching My Boobs
In which we respond to “Gay Men’s Sexism and Women’s Bodies,” an article by a gay man who noticed his peers “curiously comfortable critiquing and touching women’s bodies at whim.”
It’s Your Gun Culture: The Autostraddle Roundtable
On growing up with (or without) guns.
Ladies Who Rap: The Playlist and Guided Herstory Tour
Let’s take a video-guided tour of the movement called ‘female rap’ with appearances by Salt-n-Pepa, Aaliyah, Lil’ Kim and more! Also, there’s a playlist.