Ryan Yates was the NSFW Editor (2013–2018) and Literary Editor for Autostraddle.com, with bylines in Nylon, Refinery29, The Toast, Bitch, The Daily Beast, Jezebel, and elsewhere. They live in Los Angeles and also on twitter and instagram.
Getting down when you have gender dysphoria, how sex positivity shouldn’t mean pressure to have sex, new research that says sex makes you feel like life has meaning and more.
Tarot and psychotherapy, reading anything at any time of year, give yourself permission not to finish that book you don’t really want to finish and more.
Sleepovers suck but you can have a better one, if you must. Also: Ontario’s sex ed curriculum goes back in time, lesbians have better sex, why not to get jaded…