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A Goodbye Plan: 17 Queer Spaces Now That Twitter Is Maybe Ending

For many folks like me – Black, queer, and desiring connection – Twitter has served as a vehicle for dialogue, digital intimacy, and a lot of laughter. It’s hard to…

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Nov 15, 2022

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Thank You and Welcome to 550+ New A+ Members!

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Nico —

Nov 13, 2022

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No One Cares About Queer People as Much as Queer People

“Some people grumble about how much “easier” younger generations have it.”

Valerie Anne —

Nov 12, 2022

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The Comment Awards Are Foraging for Mushrooms

“Don’t talk to me or my 23,000 sexes until you’ve had a nice long think about cisnormativity.”

Darcy —

Nov 11, 2022

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I am a Sucker for Romantic Comedies

“The dapper Black girl that danced and sang about the future had led me to a new corner of the universe and I was smitten.”

shea wesley martin —

Nov 11, 2022

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Writing for Autostraddle Helped Me Find the Words for My Real Coming Out

“To come into myself, to really integrate my queerness as an essential part of myself, I needed to start telling the stories I had been holding in for so long.”

himani —

Nov 10, 2022

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It Was Like Living on the Moon

“It was like needing food, and eating a pile of smooth, round stones instead. It was almost a life.”

Darcy —

Nov 9, 2022

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Ten Things I’ve Learned In My Four Years at Autostraddle

“I would rather the limitations be financial than be limits on my work, my voice, my personhood.”

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Nov 8, 2022

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