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The book cover of Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis by Grace Lavery, which features a pair of red lipsticked lips with a cigarette hanging out

Grace Lavery on Her New Memoir “Please Miss,” Sex Writing, and the Trans Glamour of Nicole Kidman

“When one is trying to write about sex, if you’re doing it right, something happens in the prose that is unpredictable and kind of wild.”

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Feb 8, 2022

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sobriety

The book cover of Getting Clean With Stevie Green

lgbt book reviews

“Getting Clean With Stevie Green” Cares More About the Mess

It’s an attitude that’s really relatable, a year and some change sober as I am, the idea that your whole life would be different if not for this one thing…

Analyssa —

Feb 1, 2022

single drunk female

sobriety

tv reviews

Freeform’s “Single Drunk Female” Finds the Funny in Sobriety

Single Drunk Female is a show about starting fresh, not just about drinking or not drinking.

Analyssa —

Jan 25, 2022

alcohol

gender identity

three images of nicole drinking various beverages. nicole is a white human who has their natural dark brown hair in one photo and their bleach blond hair in the other two. they always wear glasses. the photos show them drinking tea from a cauldron mug, drinking coffee from a small mug, and drinking a can of diet dr. pepper. the photos shift from winter to summer to spring from left to right

first person

15 Things I Drank in My Year of Not Drinking

Tasting notes: This one is real, like a hallucination. You can feel it, see it, and it leaves very little evidence of its passing through your body. Lingers barely on…

Nico —

Dec 30, 2021

alcohol

sobriety

A stylized image of the cover of Leslie Jamison's The Recovering against an orange gradient background with the text 'the book that made me get sober"

book features

The Book That Made Me Get Sober: Leslie Jamison’s “The Recovering”

Reading The Recovering was like reading a diary full of thoughts I would never have been brave enough to write down. I felt something I’d only ever felt once before,…

Analyssa —

Sep 30, 2021

sobriety

food and drink

Three Mocktails for Your Holigay Reunion of Exes

So you’ve invited three of your exes and each of their respective partners/polycules over for holiday dinner. It’s a potluck, so food is taken care of, but what will you…

danijanae —

Dec 19, 2019

hanukkah

sobriety

christmas

Tips on Staying Sober Through The Holidays

Staying sober through the holidays can be anxiety inducing even for the best of us. Here are some tips to get through the big three!

danijanae —

Dec 6, 2019

autostraddle classics

curated

health

The Autostraddle Guide To Queer Mental Health

An epically organized guide to some of our best work on topics including depression, anxiety, grief, eating disorders, substance abuse and other legitimately important topics.

The Editors —

Oct 24, 2019

Grease Bats by Archie Bongiovanni

Saturday Morning Cartoons

webcomics

Grease Bats: Sober Kid at the Party

“I had no idea how much drinking masked my anxiety until penicillin.”

Archie —

Jul 6, 2019

but make it fashion

sobriety

issues

Intervention

I had “dressed” myself before driving drunk to my mother’s home. I had taken a shower thinking that water would take away the smell; that putting on leggings instead of…

m. rose —

Dec 12, 2018

#longreads

addiction

hazy image of woman closing her eyes, rainbow objects fly around her face

first person

The Sociopath Who Loved Me Enough

“As soon as we met Tara and Tony, our lives morphed to make room for them. Instead of drinking Carol’s parents’ liquor on Friday nights, we went to their apartment…

swan huntley —

Aug 27, 2018

bad behavior

fullscreen

first person

Still Reeling That I’ve Made It

“No one knows, including me, that my overindulgence and competitive drinking is an attempt to assert the only masculinity I know. Toxic.”

Lazarus —

Aug 9, 2018