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.
Meme historians, the necessary fragility of feminism and radical politics, poetry a fatal, first-person queer writing as a way to shift power and more.
The Adipositivity Project, accessing your own pleasure, how to bring up safer sex, how to get over sex-related hang-ups, new theories on oxytocin in relationships, lots of nipples, and more.
What type of love addict are you? How one woman’s disability impacted her queer dating life, popular sex toys by state, challenging fatphobia and more.
How to practice feminism in relationships, a vibrator for data nerds, some side-effects of orgasms, embracing change in long-term relationships, how to sext like the Victorians and more.
Geocities. MySpace. LiveJournal. Blogspot. Facebook unless you still use that one (sorry). Secret Tumblr. Vine. Snapchat before it got big I guess? LET’S TALK ABOUT OUR INTERNET PAST LIVES.