kamala cutting autostraddle's birthday cake at a table with riese, sarah and carmen who are visibily excited at the prospect of celebration and also eating delicious cake

Happy birthday to us, and thank you to all of you! This weekend was Autostraddle’s 11th birthday, and there’s absolutely no way we could have made it this far without your support — we’ve been able to survive as a queer indie media outlet because our community has had our backs, and shown us in a dozen ways every day that they value and invest in the work that we do. We’ll never be able to thank you enough, but this Ask Us Anything / Advice-a-Thon is our way of trying! We’ll be here all day with dozens of team members dedicating their days to answering questions from you, and we’ve recruited some of your favorite past Autostraddle writers, internet personalities and celesbians and celebisexuals to do the same! Today we’re blessed with the presences of advice writer, therapist and sex educator Christina Tesoro; creator of #DisabledAndCute and bisexual icon Keah Brown; writer, comedian, and America’s next top bottom Chingy Nea; actor, writer and heartthrob Brittani Nichols; writer, consultant and babe Carrie Wade; career consultant extraordinaire Tiara DeGuzman; author, podcast host of Bad with Money and professional bisexual Gaby Dunn, and celebrated author of Mostly Dead ThingsKristen Arnett.

Here’s how it works:

You comment below with your questions, your advice needs, your quandaries.

We reply to your comment with our answers, our advice, our solutions.

Life advice, personal questions about us, pop quizzes, professional questions about this work, settling a bet, etc. ANYTHING GOES, FRIENDS. If you want a particular person to answer your particular Q, simply type their names at the beginning of your comment. We’ll be command + f-ing our own names so we don’t miss any of these direct questions, so please make sure you’re spelling it correctly! I find using the @[screen name] approach to be useless, as most of us have strange screen names that don’t match our actual names, and probably you don’t know them, but! If you do know them and want to use that, BE MY GUEST.

In the words of Laneia previously on this selfsame day: Let’s get going! Who’s asking the first question?? What about the third one? Who’ll ask the seventeenth? Who will be brave and bold enough to ask question number 52?!

WE LOVE YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Update: So far we’ve been able to see 80 new A+ signups over the course of this drive! Thank you so much, and WELCOME, new members! 🥰😍☺️


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