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Help! I’ve Gotten ‘The Ick’ for My Girlfriend

Advice for suddenly feeling unattracted to your girlfriend, having your first ever crush on a cis dude, and finding a sex therapist.

the team —

Apr 5, 2024

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into the af+ advice box

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Is Refusing To Share My Location a Red Flag?

A request from a younger girlfriend has a reader wondering if her aversion to location sharing is a generational conflict. Also: how to keep a relationship sexy without sex and…

the team —

Mar 29, 2024

dogs

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I Think My Girlfriend Is Drugging My Dog

In this week’s advice box, a relationship plagued by dog problems and possible dishonesty, how to support a partner convinced they’re worthless without a job, and safe sex for poly…

the team —

Mar 22, 2024

a+ insider

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Autostraddle Insider Issue #104: Goodbye Heather Edition

Heather knows, she knows, how to connect with people through stories and writing, she knows how to make you feel seen, buoyed, valued, special, important, remarkable.

Riese —

Sep 27, 2023

death is sad

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An Incomplete List of Things I Wish My Mother Would Do

46. Look at the menu beforehand.

Laneia —

Mar 4, 2023

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jigsaw

puzzles

Jigsaw Puzzle! Cozy Winter Wish List

New puzzle alert!!

Yao Xiao —

Dec 22, 2022

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wordrow

puzzles

Guessing Game: Seasonal Sapphic Swag

‘TIS THE DAMN SEASON

Sally —

Dec 20, 2022

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spaces & places

house & garden

Spaces & Places Community Gallery

As part of our three-week Spaces & Places series, we asked you if we could see your favorite spaces — and wow, did you deliver!

meg —

Jul 29, 2021

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three autostraddle readers featured in the gallery: Dee, Laura, and Beck

lgbt pride

Queer IRL: Autostraddle’s 2021 Pride Gallery!

“I am SO THANKFUL to be vaccinated and alive and gay as fuck.”

Vanessa —

Jun 30, 2021

covid-19

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We Keep Each Other Safe: Making a Covid Safety Plan for the Real World

This helpful graphic explainer from A. Andrews is a great illustration of what living safely during COVID-19 in Minneapolis (where I also live!) looks like right now; here are some…

Rachel —

Jan 20, 2021

Butt Week

drugs

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Giving Poppers to Cis Women

“A cultural exchange from a person with a prostate to those without.”

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Oct 19, 2020

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No Justice No Pride

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15,000 Stand Up For Black Trans Lives in Brooklyn, Show Us What Pride Month Should Always Look Like

Over 15,000 people turned up for the Brooklyn Liberation Action for Black Trans Lives this past weekend and these are the best photographs I have ever seen.

Riese —

Jun 15, 2020