Nico

Team Writer

Recent AF+ Articles by This Author

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Video Replay: Queer Yoga by Butch Yoga, Welcoming the New Year

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Editor’s Notes: 13 Days of A+ and the SHAME Series

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Nico

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The A+ Pop-Up Discord Server Starts NOW!

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Welcome to the 13 Days of A+ of 2023!

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All Articles by this Author on Autostraddle

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Right The Heck Now: You, Us, the A+ Pop-Up Discord?

Join us! Plus there’s a hang with the senior team on Friday!

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Nov 3, 2022

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Should We Have an A+ Meetup in Providence, RI Next Week? Discuss!

On Monday???

Nico —

Nov 2, 2022

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against a colorful background, YOU DID IT!!! And in just five days?!?

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WHAT In the Queer Media Happened You All!?!??

No, this is UNHEARD OF.

Nico —

Nov 2, 2022

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Next Weekend: You, Us, the A+ Pop-Up Discord?

And a hang with the senior team on Friday!

Nico —

Oct 29, 2022

autostraddle fundraising

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STILL HERE AND QUEER AFTER ALL THESE YEARS — Queer Media Needs Your Help!

“This is the most urgent I have ever felt”

Nico —

Oct 27, 2022

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culture

Today I Wondered Why AFAB Was Trending on Twitter

Did I figure it out?

Nico —

Oct 27, 2022

horror

Horror Is So Gay

Dana Scully stands in front of an open car trunk

first person

The Seduction of Aliens

When I saw a UFO, I was 18 and it was the night before prom.

Nico —

Oct 25, 2022

#affiliatemarketing

A+ Book Club

Kayla sits on an ornate Victorian sofa holding aloft a cocktail in a stemmed glass. She is wearing a doll-esque baby blue dress that is all gauzy with incredibly puffy sleeves, layers of pearls and a lace choker, ribbons in her hair which is braided, and glasses. She is holding her book, Helen House, which is pink with the title on it in white whimsical font and the "o" in house replaced with a smudgey lipstick kiss.

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A+ Read a Fucking Book Club Q&A with Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

December 13th! We hope you won’t ghost us!

Nico —

Oct 25, 2022

Member2Member

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Member2Member Advice: This Post Is a Space for Educators

Share resources, swap advice, get temp checks on what you’re doing, and find support.

Nico —

Oct 11, 2022

#affiliatemarketing

horror

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya takes a mirror selfie, surrounded by copies of her novelette HELEN HOUSE. A small ghost comes out of her phone.

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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya on Writing a Lesbian Horror Protagonist Who Has Been to Therapy

Autostraddle Managing Editor Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya’s debut book — Helen House, a queer horror novelette — comes out October 18.

Nico —

Oct 6, 2022

a collage showing Anya, a white woman with long brown-blonde hair smiling in an orchard and balancing an apple on her head, Kayla a South Asian woman with glasses and long brown hair smilign with a jack o lantern she carved that says gay with her partner Kristen in the background, a white butch human with long brown hair that is holding up a jack o lantern that is smiling, then there is a photo of viv with their sisters and family dog and they are all asian humans, sitting outside in fall weather, and finally, there is a photo of nico and their partner sadie outside of gertrude stein's birth home in the autumn. nico, a white human with bleached hair wearing fall clothes and a beanie is kissing the head of their partner, sadie, a white gender non conforming woman wearing a beanie and coat

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REMINDER: Submit to the A+ Member 🎃 Autumnal Photo Gallery 🎃

Get those photos in!!!

Nico —

Oct 5, 2022

#affiliatemarketing

A+ Book Club

an image of the cover of All This Could Be Different as well as an author photo of Sarah Thankam Mathews, a young South Asian woman, and in the center, against a black background, are white chat boxes representing chatting together with the author on discord

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Sarah Thankam Mathews Chatted With Us About Collectivism, Spreadsheets, Queer Sex Scenes and More!

“I really wanted the movement of the novel to start with an I and end with a We.”

Nico —

Oct 4, 2022

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Recent AF+ Articles by This Author

Video Replay: Queer Yoga by Butch Yoga, Welcoming the New Year

Editor’s Notes: 13 Days of A+ and the SHAME Series

The A+ Pop-Up Discord Server Starts NOW!

Welcome to the 13 Days of A+ of 2023!

All Articles by this Author on Autostraddle

Right The Heck Now: You, Us, the A+ Pop-Up Discord?

Should We Have an A+ Meetup in Providence, RI Next Week? Discuss!

WHAT In the Queer Media Happened You All!?!??

Next Weekend: You, Us, the A+ Pop-Up Discord?

STILL HERE AND QUEER AFTER ALL THESE YEARS — Queer Media Needs Your Help!

Today I Wondered Why AFAB Was Trending on Twitter

The Seduction of Aliens

A+ Read a Fucking Book Club Q&A with Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

Member2Member Advice: This Post Is a Space for Educators

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya on Writing a Lesbian Horror Protagonist Who Has Been to Therapy

REMINDER: Submit to the A+ Member 🎃 Autumnal Photo Gallery 🎃

Sarah Thankam Mathews Chatted With Us About Collectivism, Spreadsheets, Queer Sex Scenes and More!