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In Genderqueer, a Word To Call Home

It conveys a sense of expansiveness that I’ve felt about my gender since before I had the words to identify it; a joyful space of experimentation and potential.

Daven McQueen —

Nov 15, 2023

Autostraddle Reader Data

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identity

Data Party! Insights into Nonbinary Readers from the 2022 Reader Survey

Autostraddle-exclusive insights into our nonbinary readers!

Nico —

Jul 14, 2023

dyke

genderqueer

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gender

My Gender Is Dyke

I wasn’t a woman, but a lesbian, an identity so powerful it’s the closest thing to a gender I have.

Alexandria Juarez —

Feb 2, 2022

gender identity

genderqueer

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gender

A Gender by Any Other Name: What Does the Term Genderqueer Mean to Us in 2021?

“I feel like people started enacting these borders around it and categorizing it, and that felt so bad and wrong, and the antithesis of everything that it should be. Then,…

Archie —

Jun 24, 2021

bisexuality

gender identity

af+

Into The A+ Advice Box #3: Summer Hookups, Bisexual Sadness and Gender Feelings

We’ve got 29 gorgeous questions and like 100 answers, so if you need help and you asked for it, you might find it in here. Casual hookups, breakups, threesomes, gender…

Riese —

Jul 30, 2018

butch

female masculinity

visual art

“BUTCH”: Photographer Meg Allen On Her Kickass Documentation of an Evolving Community

“There are a lot of butches out there still. More than ever. And in a larger variety than ever. And that is what my project depicts, in style, body, race…

Priya —

Aug 24, 2017

body image

femmes

beauty

23% Of Women Don’t Shave Their Pits, Thanks Feminism!?

I did my own research, aka I texted a bunch of my queer and trans friends to ask them about their body hair. What do you do with your pit…

Adrian —

May 26, 2017

bdsm

bottoms up

sex

Bottoms Up: Ch-ch-changes

As my gender expression changes, so does who I’m attracted to.

Ari —

Jan 10, 2017

body image

gaby dunn

society + culture

WATCH: Queer Highlights From “The What’s Underneath Project”

“As a poet, I normally have time to carefully construct my sentences, my metaphors, etc., but here I didn’t have any preparation, and honestly, I don’t think I needed any.”

Adrian —

Oct 11, 2016

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family