covid-19 Archives

A collage of three photos of the author, Heather Hogan. Left to right: Heather using her cane and compression socks to walk in the rain. Heather wearing a mask in the hospital and crossing her fingers. Heather standing in her backyard in front of her flower pots using a cane.

The Soft Butch That Couldn’t (Or: I Got COVID-19 in March 2020 and Never Got Better)

Is a soft butch a soft butch if she can barely hold even herself together? Is a soft butch a soft butch without her swagger?

Heather Hogan

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Mar 15, 2023

masks and hand sanitizer sit on a wooden surface, with a white wall behind them

health

Practical Magic: COVID Is Here to Stay — So What Does It Mean to Keep Each Other Safe?

We can be more thoughtful about how we interact with others during these enduringly uncertain times.

himani

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Feb 23, 2023

Against a red background, there is a stack of white KN95 masks, a COVID vaccine card, a rapid covid test, red leather cuffs, a red leather blindfold, two black butt plugs, and a black ball gag.

sex

How I’m Navigating Play Parties as a Disabled, Immunocompromised Kinkster

I knew they taught about safety in BDSM culture, and I assumed that this ethic would carry through in their COVID safety. I was wrong.

Jade T. Perry

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Jan 18, 2023

AD on the practice court in New York. Text: Never Knocked Down, The AD Story

sports

Queer Nonbinary WNBA Star AD Durr’s Long Covid Documentary Is a Must-Watch

“Identity is so much bigger than just basketball. If I can get through Long Covid, I can get through anything in life.”

Heather Hogan

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Aug 30, 2022

book features

Joe Osmundson on Expansive Science Writing and Living in an Impossible World

“It is tension: living well on a viral warming planet is too much to ask of any person. And yet it is what our circumstances are asking of us.”

Vanessa

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Jul 26, 2022

dating

Join Autostraddle for a Virtual Workshop on COVID-19 and Queer Sexual Health

Do you have questions about sex and dating during an ongoing pandemic? Register for our virtual workshop!

Ro White

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Jun 6, 2022

A field of neon "open" signs sits in a grid on a black background. Just one of them is replaced with a neon "closed" sign. The image is meant to evoke the sense of 'the world opening up' during the 'push to go back to normal' during the ongoing pandemic.

af+

A+ Roundtable: Dealing With the Push To ‘Go Back to Normal’

“I try to take my Covid guidelines from the immunocompromised people in my life — not the government.”

the team

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Apr 11, 2022

A feature image with Ro, Sex and Dating Editor. Ro is a white person with hair that is brown annd buzzed on the sides and short on top. They're wearing a ring, and a necklace, and a sleeveless tee shirt. They're laughing and putting a palm to their forehead. They're set against a sunrise gradient background.

straddleverse

‘Faster’ Isn’t Always ‘Better’

This was my first time editing a written series on my own, but as a Very Confident Aries, I wasn’t worried… It wasn’t that simple.

Ro White

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Oct 20, 2021

A Black person with a shaved head wearing a black shirt and brown blazer throws their arm around another Black person with short hair wearing a yellow shirt and white jacket.

relationships

What The Pandemic Taught Me About Healthy Queer Love

To live out a love that is healthy, queer, non-mongamous has been a source of deep personal transformation.

Marwa Eltahir

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Aug 30, 2021

Two light brown, hairy legs walk through ankle-deep water containing seaweed and farms. A pink and purple sunset is visible in the background.

first person

The 5 Stages of Choosing Myself During A Pandemic

If you keep pumping your arms, your legs will know what to do even when the world is crumbling around you.

shea wesley martin

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Jun 24, 2021

A Black figure wearing pink nail polish sits on their knees. On either side, there are small city buildings. The person is drawing a line down the middle of the city with pink chalk.

politics + activism

Chicago’s Black Sex Workers Hold Each Other Up

I thought about what it meant to be part of Black sex working community and our long history of organizing, mutual aid, protests and movements. I thought about what it…

Rebelle Cunt

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Jun 22, 2021

A person sits in a dark room in front of a glowing keyboard. We can see their brain, spinal cord and lungs through their skin. The word "STOP" floats in red lettering.

first person

What Long COVID Taught Me About Mutual Aid

The same things I need in order to manage my Long COVID are the things we all need for the future we are creating: mutual aid, seasons of receiving along…

Rachel Bean

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Jun 17, 2021

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