Hello and welcome to our sixth birthday party! We are so pleased to be here with you!
Here’s how it works:
By the way, all A+ members can get 20% off merch in the Autostraddle Store all day today, so get on it! The code is aplusbday6.
Here’s our running tally of how many A+ Members we have:
Expertise: Basic budgeting and financial literacy, intense skincare regimens, pursuing a career in creative writing, teaching at the college level, bisexuality and dating/general wellbeing as a bisexual, legumes of all kinds, The X-Files, getting married/having a wedding
Expertise: Books, pop culture, depression, ad(h)d, christianity (general theology, reconciling faith with religious upbringing, super religious family), long-distance relationships (turned living-together relationship), women’s college basketball (I will fill out your march madness brackets), bicycle maintenance and repair, volunteering questions, animal questions (rescuing, training, etc.), and social media.
Expertise: Being gay and Latina, growing up and being gay in a border town / returning to that border town and still being gay, being in a long-term relationship, going through an extremely unpleasant break-up, working from home, taking care of a big dog, navigating white, radical spaces as a queer brown woman, being a chunky brown girl and giving no fucks about it (especially in yoga), talking about Texas forever!
Expertise: Interracial dating, boundaries, being muy romantic, dealing with a partner that has an addiction(s), sex w different body types
Expertise: Sex & sexuality, small animal care, grown up life shit (buying a house, finding a financial planner, leasing v. buying a car), “Should I go to law school?”, relationships, bisexual/pansexual/queer stuff, nonprofit career advice, IPV and sexual assault support, community organizing as hobby or career (coalition building, legislative advocacy, government relations, etc), leggings as pants affirmation, monolid makeup, veg food, clothes, and lifestyle, leadership & management, feminist careers, body positive / fat positive stuff including fatshion
Expertise: Relationships, sex, technology and existing in an MFA program. Oh, and liquor!
Expertise: Parenting, being older than 30, feelings, 60s/70s classic rock, teen pregnancy, divorce, hippie bullshit, death
Expertise: Relationships, kids, coming out stuff, life
Expertise: Relationships, sex & dating, DEATH, writing & reading, starting your own business, sex work, mental health (personal history as well as experiences as a partner and family member, whatever your little heart desires)
Expertise: Tarot, living in a tiny space, starting/running a just-you business
Expertise: Being fat, femme stuff (“especially low-budget femme”), Trans issues, Geeky (“if anyone has questions about sci-fi movies or tv shows or comic books or superheroes or things of that nature, I can talk for days about that stuff”), being Queer & Christian (“specifically Catholic.”) Also: witch stuff (“but not wicca, I’m not wiccan. but I am more than just an aesthetic witch, like my witchcraft is tied into my Mexican La Virgen-based semi-Catholicism, sort of like what was in the Gloria background story of OITNB, but not nearly as hardcore.”)
Expertise: Relationships, cat care, andro / genderqueer shopping, healthy living, being vegan, how to use social media like not a dumbass
Expertise: Relationships, cat care, healthy living, dealing with a vegan, planning a wedding, writing a book, hula hooping, lip syncing, how to use social media like not a dumbass
Expertise: Style, beauty, parenting, relationships, boundaries
Expertise: Decolonial food, reclaiming abuelita knowledge, ‘cultural’ Spanish, reproductive justice, abortion support and companionship, re-wording body parts and situations to better support people through reproductive lives, conscious mooning, healthy and delicious food and drinks, herbs and their uses, eco-feminism, how to survive academic institutions as a Queer Brown person, how to not be a complete privileged asshole
Expertise: Fashion, Sex and Health
Expertise: Skincare, hair-care, makeup, and sex/dating for trans girls
Expertise: Women in STEM, TV pop culture, mixed-race issues, martial arts, bisexuality
Expertise: Having one eyeball bigger than the other, Uh Huh Her, pink outfits, being famous, Littlefoot, trysexuality
Expertise: Relationships, being single, Self-Esteem, Religion, Coming Out, Goal Setting and Achieving, Self-Awareness, Race Relations, Self Discovery and Identity.
Expertise: Queer sex(ual health), gender (de)construction, relationships, living queerly as a Latin@. I can also give some advice on how to have a healthy, happy dog while working full time and living alone.
Expertise: Relationships & Sex
Expertise: Being trans, poly, kinky, queer/trans/sex friendly video games and spaces.
Expertise: Fashion, beginner gay things, friendship. Also being a minority in a largely conservative/predominantly white environment.
Expertise: Jobs, boundaries, jokes, being direct, coming from a religious background, cute ladies in sports
Expertise: Writing, Comedy, Relationships and “Being Perpetually Sad.”
We love you. We couldn’t be doing this thing without you. And we are so excited to be spending our birthday with you!