family

baby-making

family

queer pregnancy

How These Lesbian Couples Decided to Get Pregnant

For queer couples, deciding to get pregnant often involves a lot of planning, money, and time.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Aug 22, 2019

chronic illness

family

health

Bearing Life With and Alongside: On Masculinity, Pregnancy, and Medical Trauma

I hadn’t experienced transphobic violence in medicalized form before. But I’d experienced it in many others: in punches and pushes, through threats with weapons, or by being run off the…

Grover Wehman-Brown —

Nov 19, 2018

bad behavior

family

first person

She Never Liked Me Anyway

Dementia used to be called madness, I was told.

Kunzes —

Aug 16, 2018

family

podcasts

culture

“Don’t Tell the Babysitter Mom’s Dead” Isn’t Afraid of Feelings or Jokes

“Don’t Tell the Babysitter Mom’s Dead” is a beautifully produced podcast for anyone interested in exploring themes of family and loss, but especially for people looking to connect to another…

Maddie —

Jul 5, 2018

daddy issues

family

holigays

Daddy Issues: Some Queer Father’s Day Reading for You From Autostraddle

Some essays and stories about our Dads — the good, the bad, and the very complicated.

Riese —

Jun 17, 2018

family

personal essay

first person

Every Trans Girl I Meet Is From the Future: Finding a Bereft Sisterhood

I find myself preemptively mourning the transgenerational communities and cliques and cults and clubs and covens of girls like me that could be and may not be.

Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard —

Jun 15, 2018

family

Y'All Need Help

relationships

Y’All Need Help #20: Is This Too Many Metaphors?

Your family buys you weird gifts, your mom is kinda rude about your long-distance girlfriend, and you can’t move on after this breakup. Let’s get some shit done! Come on!

Laneia —

Feb 24, 2018

family

hair and beauty

first person

My Absurd Skincare Routine Is the Softest I Am to Myself

Sometimes being queer and black, bisexual and biracial, feels like contradiction, like too many things, and sometimes I’m not sure that I’d recognize myself if I walked by.

Rachel —

Feb 23, 2018

family

grown-ups

parenting & family

Raising Baby T-Rex: My Mom Says We’re Exactly The Same

I wasn’t at all ready for the feelings I’d have about being adopted and queer and raising a toddler who still isn’t as old as I was when I came…

KaeLyn —

Feb 13, 2018

family

women of color

first person

On Loving My White Mother

In which a debate over body hair pushes a white mother and her brown daughter to the limits of mutual understanding.

Maya —

Jan 19, 2018

bisexuality

family

coming out

You Need Help: Coming Out When Your Girlfriend Is Amazing but Your Family Super Isn’t

“I feel like I’m lying to my my parents, hiding part of myself, and disrespecting my girlfriend by constantly avoiding mentioning her or referring to her as my friend when…

Rachel —

Dec 20, 2017

family

we are adults now

love + sex

Y’All Need Help #16: You Can Do Things About You!

Being miserable at your 9-5 job, your family isn’t wild about your fiancee and you’re embarrassed to get married, you’re not wild about your current roommate, and people think you…

Laneia —

Dec 16, 2017