the birthday issue

the birthday issue

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Chasing Amy

Birthdays are weird when you have a dead mom.

Kennedy Fields —

Mar 11, 2019

autostraddle birthday

the birthday issue

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Happy Birthday Autostraddle: 10th Birthday Cards and Love Notes from YOU

Not only did you send cards and love notes, you also sent us homemade vegan cookies, cash donations, and a fucking handmade seahorse enamel charm?!?!?!

Vanessa —

Mar 8, 2019

ask us anything

autostraddle birthday

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It’s Autostraddle’s 10th Birthday: Ask Us Anything!

Sweet birthday AMA!! Eight full hours of advice, answers, resolutions, and camaraderie! No question will go unanswered! Not an A+ member yet? TODAY’S A GREAT DAY TO JOIN!

Laneia —

Mar 8, 2019

autostraddle birthday

the birthday issue

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Save Room for Autostraddle’s 10th Birthday Cake

Reneice is making us a cake! Then you can make the cake! We can all make the cake!

Reneice Charles —

Mar 8, 2019

the birthday issue

issues

38 and Closer to My Mother’s Suicide

We all sat in a big circle. We were asked to share. I told them that I’d recently moved back to Seattle, only a month ago, after having been gone…

Anastasia Selby —

Mar 1, 2019

autostraddle uk

the birthday issue

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Mirrors

“I had dreamt about my new sister that very night. An almost spiritual connection. Perhaps my mother could have sensed, then, that I felt the same as her; that I…

Ankó —

Feb 27, 2019

Adventure Time

defiance

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How Not to Throw a Birthday Party, According to Lesbian TV’s Worst Parties

“Play to everyone’s culinary strengths, know your nemeses, and make sure all your guests are familiar with poison-free alternatives to food with poison in them.”

Heather Hogan —

Feb 26, 2019

Monday Roundtable

Roundtables

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Monday Roundtable: Our Worst Birthdays

It’s our party and we’ll cry if we want to — because these birthdays were terrible.

the team —

Feb 25, 2019

the birthday issue

issues

The ‘M’ Word

Every birthday after I admitted to myself that I am queer has been a celebration of that fact. A celebration that I listened to myself, that I am not currently…

Itenoria —

Feb 22, 2019

the birthday issue

issues

The (First) Birthday Party

“Do I sing along when everyone else is singing to me?”

Tiff C —

Feb 21, 2019

personal essay

the birthday issue

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Birthdays I Remember

Melanie was born on August 5, 1982. I know this because I fell in love with her in fifth grade.

Micha Rahder —

Feb 19, 2019

Monday Roundtable

the birthday issue

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Monday Roundtable: How Could I Forget?

The birthdays we still remember, even though that person isn’t around anymore, and will just keep thinking of year after year forever and ever without end, amen.

the team —

Feb 18, 2019