Late in June, our very own Darcy made some waves in the Autostraddle Slack by dropping the following message featuring a viral meme:

Team writer Darcy sends a Slack message that reads "okay pals, I'll see you at the pool cause it's a" followed by a screenshot of a since-debunked Fox News fake headline saying "They/them" summer: a new far-left extremist plot to undermine American democracy
it turns out this headline was not real but WE HAVE FUN HERE AT AUTOSTRADDLE DOT COM

The headline has since been debunked as false and is just a digital alteration, but for at least one blissful day, many folks on the Autostraddle team hypothesized what a They/Them Summer might look like. The headline might be fake, but you can’t unmake a meme, and so we’re still gonna have some They/Them Summer fun, ok!!!!

Here are the mood boards some of our team members made for their sunny, lush, splashy, adventurous, hot, memorable, delicious They/Them Summers. What’s on yours? 🏖