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autostraddle meet-up

community

community

Spend the Holigays With Your (Queer) Family: Host an Autostraddle Meet-Up This Season!

Let’s make the season gayer than ever by spending it with our chosen queer families — our partners, our gal pals, and our fellow ‘straddlers!

Carmen —

Nov 16, 2015

hanukkah

holiday gift guide

christmas

A STE(A)My Gift Guide for Nerds with an Artistic Bent

Gifts for the nerds who put the Art in STE(A)M.

A.E. Osworth —

Nov 14, 2015

hanukkah

holiday gift guide

christmas

Holigay Gift Guide 2015: For Feminists Who Live, Breathe, Wear, and Drink Out of the Movement

Without further ado, here’s a bunch of cool shit your favorite feminists are likely wishing for this year — or should be and just don’t realize it yet.

Carmen —

Nov 11, 2015

hanukkah

holiday gift guide

christmas

Holigay Gift Guide 2015: Bring on the Flannel, Hold the Shirts

If you want flannel boxers to wear under your flannel dress and then later inside your flannel sleeping bag, it’s all here.

Maddie —

Nov 9, 2015

hanukkah

christmas

Playlist: This Sweater is Too Hot to Dance In

Give your guests something to tap their foot to but nothing that will make them have to get up and dance because everyone hates sweater stench.

Brittani —

Dec 26, 2014

hanukkah

judaism

christmas

Jewish Christmases I Have Known

What do you do when the world gives you a mandatory day off, when nothing is open except Chinese restaurants and movie theatres?

Stef —

Dec 25, 2014

hanukkah

holigay open thread

holigays

OPEN THREAD: All I Want for Christmakwanzakah is You, So Get In Here

This is a safe and special place for you to use as refuge from your family, a recipe depository from your holigay feasts, and also a friend-making machine.

Carmen —

Dec 24, 2014

femme fashion

hanukkah

queer fashion

Going to an Outdoor Semi-Formal Event in the F*cking Snow

As for keeping your hands warm, the best way to go is a faux fur muff. I really don’t understand why people don’t still wear muffs all the time. They’re…

Mey —

Dec 23, 2014

90s nostalgia

hanukkah

christmas

Holigay Gift Guide 2014: 90s Kid Forever

If you or someone you love has been affected by 90s Kid Syndrome™, enable their disease with these gifts that are way cool and da bomb.

Kate —

Dec 19, 2014

dapper fashion

femme fashion

christmas

Keep It Simple With These All-Black Holiday Looks

Don’t let an all-black dress code get you down. Use pieces you already own to create pulled-together looks worthy of the holiday season.

Whitney E —

Dec 19, 2014

friday open thread

hanukkah

christmas

FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Best (Gift) You Ever Had

I wanna know the best gifts and worst gifts you ever gave or received and all the stories about your life in-between. GET IN HERE AND TELL ME YOUR TRUTHS!

Carmen —

Dec 19, 2014

family

hanukkah

christmas

10 Tips For Surviving Your First Family Holiday After Coming Out

So you’ve recently come out to your family, and it’s the first time you’ve been to holigay dinner since it happened. Autostraddle is here to help you through it.

Mari Brighe —

Dec 18, 2014