Results for: Feel good
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Chris Belcher Talked With the A+ Book Club About Academia, Memory and More!
“LOL yeah, I lusted for those spencers sex toys so bad”
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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 91: April 2022
“Have you tried butter on toast though?… it’s pretty good.”
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The Group Chat: How We Played With Barbies
“I was kinda scared of Barbie the way I was scared of all beautiful women…”
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Things I’ve Never Asked My Girlfriend of Three Years About Her Childhood and High School Years
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya asks Kristen Arnett juicy questions about queer desire, secret high school girlfriends, and more in this new A+ series in which we ask people we’re close with questions we genuinely don’t know how they’ll answer.
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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #37
“Heather Hogan’s misandry gives me LIFE.” Welcome to Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us: in which the Autostraddle senior team answers q’s A+ members send in, freaks out with you over exciting news and responds to your all-consuming need to share various things!
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Anonymous Job Confession: A “Progressive” Non-profit Turns Out To Be Less So
“Whenever I wanted to post something supporting Black Lives Matter, talking about racial justice, or supporting LGBTQ rights she asked me why it was relevant.”
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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #40
I played Charades with my family on Christmas Day and none of them had heard of Portrait of a Lady on Fire!
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The Group Chat: Our Gay Boyfriends
I was a theatre kid for sure, but even by theatre kid standards… if your “dates” involve going to see Rocky Horror Picture Show together? That is homosexual activity, my love.
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Notes from Hell: Divorce Year
“This isn’t going to work is it.”
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Things I’ve Never Asked My Girlfriend About Wildflowers, Baby Names and Time Travel
“Why do you think it took us so long to get together as girlfriends considering we’ve been friends for almost a decade?”
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Into the A+ Advice Box #25: How Do You Explore Your Gender When Privacy Is Scarce?
Advice for when you want to nurture a partnership but also honor your independence, for when you’re not sure if you want contact with an ex, on working through discomfort with your own sexuality, and more!
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Into the A+ Advice Box #42: MAKING ADULT FRIENDS
How do you make adult friends? The A+ team approaches this question from so many different angles to offer up advice on making adult friends while sober, making adult friends in a new city, making friends when you’re in a long-term relationship, finding potential new friends using Lex, meeting cool people with Instagram, deepening friendships that started through fandom, and more! “…that’s the beauty of the A+ Advice Box — you get a sampling of all our brains and then you get to make your own choices!”
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S L I C K: I Bet It Does
Made me want to / and I did tap / that ass / many times / made it mine.
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Into the A+ Advice Box #27: A Pattern of Growing Tired of Dating Cis Men
What if you don’t like receiving oral sex, but want to? What if you canNOT get your new crush/person out of your head, but need to focus on work? What to do if you’re longing for queer chosen family, but don’t feel like you’ve gotten there, and more!
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Into the A+ Advice Box #21: Crushing on Your (Probably) Straight Friend, and More!
Advice for the cis, presumably het parents of a trans kid, Zoom dating while in the house with your parents, an urban legend and gay panic, gender feelings, squirting ALL of the time, and understanding your expectations in a relationship with someone who is not nearly as out!
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Into the A+ Advice Box #49: Wanting to Want Monogamy
Crushing on your therapist, a partner controlling your time with friends, the long-term impacts of gaslighting, maybe getting married again, making adult friends via Facebook groups — the AS team gives A+ members advice on these topics, and more!
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S L I C K: Dream Palace
When you slide in, the girls unnestle and immediately home in on your navel. They lick their lips and lunge forward. One digs in with both sets of claws.
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S L I C K: Sweet Dreams
“I had a kind of dirty dream about you. Do you want to hear about it?” You laugh, and fuck, that sound twists itself inside my chest like a fist. I want to make you laugh more. Your voice drops, somewhere between a whisper and a quake. “It started with me kissing you.”
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Into the A+ Advice Box #47: How Do You Taper a Crush?
The team digs into questions about a partner’s conservative family, dealing with a crush on a new friend, figuring out what to wear for your wedding (!!!), and more!
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A+ Members: Join the Selection Committee for Autostraddle’s 2022 March Madness Contest
Want to revel in everything Gigi? Drag her relationships with Bette and Dani to the top of the Generation Q region. Did you share the internet’s disdain for Miranda and Che? Drop them to the bottom of the Grown region. Make whatever choices for whatever reason seems right to you.