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What’s a Normal Human Behavior That Gives You the Ick?

Listen, did we have a little TOO MUCH FUN ranting about our various icks? Maybe so. And now you can…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

Jun 28, 2025

I Think We're Alone Now

personal essay

breakups

Courting Loneliness

It was like saving a seat on the bus for someone who routinely happened to never show up. It was like setting the table for someone who decided to eat…

Kamala Puligandla —

Mar 5, 2020

101s

I Think We're Alone Now

breakups

Breakups and Being Alone 101: The Autostraddle Guide To Life After Love

We’ve got advice on breakups and exes, playlists to see you through, unhinged behavior we highly recommend and so much more from the annals of Autostraddle’s achy breaky hearts.

Riese —

Mar 4, 2020

I Think We're Alone Now

love is a lie

breakups

How Social Media Fucked Up Lesbian Breakup Culture

Breakups are so often garbage and hard, and managing the social media that surrounds it is just another gross layer that makes them even more garbage and even harder.

Rachel —

Mar 4, 2020

I Think We're Alone Now

dating

Dealing With Rejection as a Single Woman

It’s so easy to take a “no” personal and use it as justification to question your worth. However, there are a number of ways to intervene before this happens, and…

danijanae —

Mar 3, 2020

divorce

gay marriage

breakups

How Does It Feel to Be Young and Gay Divorced?

When we legally and symbolically bind ourselves together, we’re exchanging some of that fluidity for commitment. Once we marry, breaking up is hard — I mean, really hard — to…

Ro White —

Mar 2, 2020

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NSFW

nsfw sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Mastering Pain

How to stop yearning and make your own magic instead, figuring yourself out, tell a friend their partner is bad without using those words and more.

Ryan Yates —

Mar 1, 2020

black history month

black history month 2020

sex

Ain’t I A Bottom

Many Black women are raised to give our apparent struggles the stiff upper lip. We’re taught to be loud, and proud, and bigger than the world sees us. And at…

Mandy Harris Williams —

Feb 29, 2020

pizza party friday

polyamory

love + sex

The Moon Is A Lesbian and So Am I

Which one do you want to be your girlfriend: mini moon, thicc moon, or mommi earth?

danijanae —

Feb 28, 2020

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What’s a Normal Human Behavior That Gives You the Ick?

Listen, did we have a little TOO MUCH FUN ranting about our various icks? Maybe so. And now you can have some fun with us, too, delving into the various things that give us pause, squick us out, and just straight up annoy or piss us off.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya