writing

a-camp workshop

camp autostraddle

book features

Writing Dirty: You, Too, Can Write About Sex

No matter what your reasons are, or where your piece winds up, we think it’d be cool if you got to write about sex with us.

A.E. Osworth —

Oct 11, 2013

a-camp workshop

camp autostraddle

book features

Writing Your Own Prescription: How To Figure Out Your Feelings With Writing

Okay, so you have a pen and paper and some feelings. Now what?

Rachel —

Oct 10, 2013

Dear Queer Diary

regular

coming out

Dear Queer Diary: Coming Out on Paper

Coming out, one page at a time.

Maggie —

Oct 3, 2013

Dear Queer Diary

regular

love + sex

Dear Queer Diary: Show Me Your Heart and I’ll Show You Mine

We’re making a journal gallery! Get out your camera, kids.

Maggie —

Sep 26, 2013

Dear Queer Diary

journaling

first person

Dear Queer Diary: This is the First Day of the Rest of Your Journal

While this may seem obvious, anyone who has faced the terror of the blank page knows how difficult—indeed, how treacherous—this step can be. How will you begin?

Maggie —

Sep 19, 2013

Dear Queer Diary

regular

first person

Dear Queer Diary, Today We Found the Perfect Journal

“Whether you write a page-long treatise on your love of Jolly Ranchers or a meditation on the cultural currency of the alternative lifestyle haircut, you’re claiming a space on the…

Maggie —

Sep 12, 2013

Jeanette Winterson

Lambda Literary Awards

first person

This One Time At Queer Writing Camp: All About the 2013 Lambda Literary Retreat

What I learned from a week on a hilltop with 50 queer writers.

SJ Sindu —

Aug 24, 2013

online dating

team pick

comedy

Kristen’s Team Pick: DIY Dating Profiles Without All of That Pesky “Yourself”

Kristen’s Team Pick: Use a lorem ipsum generator to fill out your dating profile for when you’re too distracted by all of the potential boob dates to remember how to…

Kristen —

Aug 22, 2013

Daily Fix

notebooks

culture

Here’s A Chance to Share Your Very Own Memoir With The World

I’m going to participate in The Memoir Project and of course I think you should too.

Vanessa —

Jan 31, 2013

astraea lesbian foundation for justice

event

the scene

You Should Go: Writeous! Celebrates the Lesbian Writer’s Fund at NYC’s Greene Space

Stick to your plan to get more involved in your community this year and join your fellow queers for an evening of readings, performances, and music celebrating Astraea’s Lesbian Writer’s…

Jamie J. Hagen —

Jan 9, 2013

astraea lesbian foundation for justice

feminism

lgbt history

Astraea, A Lesbian Foundation for Justice: The Autostraddle Interview

“I know that there are many groups who we fund that if we didn’t they simply wouldn’t exist, they would close. There is dire need for the resources we provide.”

Jamie J. Hagen —

Dec 24, 2012

a-camp workshop

camp autostraddle

community

Just Take It Bird By Bird: On Personal Writing

Writing about your own experiences, whether it’s through memoir or essay or slam poetry or leaving post-its about the sandwiches your mom used to make for your lunch on lampposts,…

Rachel —

Sep 15, 2012