Mei / 21 / Student / Baltimore, MD
“Friday nights are spent at my part-time job, working at a small, family-owned Taiwanese cafe. I rode the light rail home to an apartment that would be empty for an entire week, thanks to spring break (which is just how I like it). The rest of the night was lost to a four hour drawing frenzy, only after which I realized I had accidentally left a pot of water boiling on the stove the entire time.”
Megan and Laneia / Trader Joe’s Professional; Autostraddle’s Executive Editor / Target and Nordstrom Rack in Chandler, AZ
“Here we are running errands, sending pictures to each other of the things we’re most excited about. We didn’t end up buying either things — that dress was too long and we already have a water filter. After this we went to In-n-Out!”
Emily / 24 / Retired / Yurt
“Spent this Friday night at a Queer Body Love retreat with some rad and beautiful humans. Cried, talked about our feelings, held each other tenderly, was fed cake by naked queer women in a hot tub in the forest. Collectively made magic.”
Rose / 20 / Student / Security Glasgow
I had the most amazing night at Queeriosity, a first year fundraiser at Glasgow School of Art. Spent most of the night in the womb room, incredible yolic pink space with glitter and pink cushions everywhere. I love Glasgay.
Hayley and Sarah / 22 / “Figuring it out”; Tech Educator / Providence, RI
My girlfriend Sarah took this pic of me glamorously cooking pasta for us in my boxer shorts. #kitchentop
Amy / 38 / Trauma Surgeon / Chicago, IL
Hanging out in the call room waiting on the next trauma to roll in. This is how I typically spend my weekends, patiently waiting for tragedy to strike. My motto and defense of enjoying trauma: accidents are going to happen, it might as well come to me so I can take care of them!
Laura M / 30 / Engineer and Staff Writer at Autostraddle / Cambridge, MA
I’m crushing everyone as The Lost Vikings, my new favorite character(s) in Heroes of the Storm.
Sophia / 26 / Graduate student / Princeton, New York
These pictures are from two Fridays in the past month: one from the first Friday night I spent in my new place after moving (delighted with the built-in bed bookshelves, where I decided to shelve poetry), and another in New York. The first night I spent reading; the second I spent talking on the phone to my childhood friend, wandering, and seeing an off-off-Broadway show in which a grad school classmate was acting. Incidentally, said classmate was the first woman on whom I realized I had a crush – unreciprocated, of course.
Stephanie (right) / 23 / Grad student, Brunch host / Babes of Carytown, Richmond, VA
On the last Friday in March, one of my best friends Miña and I attended a dance party fundraiser for abortion access that was held at Babes (a 32 year old lesbian bar)! The organization, Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project (RRFP), which raises money to fund abortions in the Richmond community, does a lot of exciting fundraisers and is absolutely crucial in today’s political climate.
Megan / 23 / Costume Designer / Basement of an NYC Theatre
Here I am in basement, sewing away and making stage magic happen. I freelance for all things costumes and sometimes my only company is that lil mug of tea while I hear our tech rehearsals happening above me. I think I had been at that same makeshift sewing table for about 10 hours by the time this photo was taken but hey I love what I do so I’m still smiling about it!
Emma / 27 / PhD Candidate in Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience / Boro Bistro in London
I was in London for a family emergency but I had time to meet up with a friend I’ve known since we were 11, and we talked about my stress and worries that’ve been really bad recently. She was lovely. I have lived in lots of far-apart places and I’m a person with a small number of very close friends, so it’s hard sometimes to maintain those relationships but this meet-up was really restorative and healing for me. The café décor was also laughably weird which lightened the mood. (That is indeed a hand coming out of the air vent.)
Danika and Cass / 28, 27 / Scientist; Personal trainer / Chicago, IL
We spent our Friday night U-Hauling in matching snapbacks! …And explaining “U-Hauling” to our straight friends.
Vanessa / 28 / Writer, Nanny and Future full-time hiker / Portland, OR
As luck would have it, I happened to hold an Autostraddle meet-up on this particular Friday night! So that’s what’s happening here! A real live Auto meet-up! The sun was shining, which never happens in Portland, and it felt like spring was really here (it is, it is!), and we all hung out at the Florida Room eating greasy food and working on art projects and arguing over the taste of celery and if it’s appropriate to put ketchup on a tuna melt (celery tastes DISGUSTING and ABSOLUTELY NOT, for the record) and then by 8pm we were all heading home which is exactly when I like my Friday evening plans to wind down, to be honest. In short this was magical — I look forward to hosting more Portland Autostraddle meet-ups on Friday nights.
If you’re sending in late submissions this weekend, email laneia@autostraddle.com, subj QUEER FRIDAY, with your high-res shot, name, age, occupation, and the location of your night, and include a blurb about what you’re doing.
April’s gallery theme will be announced on Wednesday, April 5 Monday, April 10!
