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Some guidelines to help this space be a positive experience for everyone: As always with the Avocado, don’t feel compelled to share beyond your comfort level. Anyone who identifies as female, or who was socialized female/AFAB/otherwise has firsthand experience with … Continue reading The Women+ Thread for April 16th
Toys are great, right? I mean, have you seen this thing? Oh, right, you’re probably expecting a different sort of toy talk here. Well, you can thank my fellow mod Craig for the topic. He alerted me to an article … Continue reading Dating, Relationships, and Sex: Toys (04/15/2020)
For Help and Crisis resources, refer to the link in the Health and Identity tab at the top of the page, or click here Sometimes we need to talk about some things. This is a phenomenally caring and kind group, … Continue reading Mental Health Thread 4.15.2020
Hello and welcome to Color Outside the Lines, a weekly discussion space for people of color. Thread Rules We ask that only those who identify as people of color participate in this discussion. White Avocados, while valued members of this … Continue reading Color Outside the Lines: Food
Greetings, Avocadoans! Welcome to the weekly discussion of LGBTQQIA+ issues! Rules for this discussion: All are welcome! However, please be respectful that this discussion is specifically about issues and topics related to lesbian, gay, bi- or pansexual, trans, queer, questioning, … Continue reading Weekly LGBT+ Discussion
Welcome to Guy Talk, a serious space to discuss masculinity, good and bad. Another month, another open thread – talk about whatever aspect of masculinity you like! Remember that this is a trans-inclusive space, and that everyone is welcome to … Continue reading Guy Talk: April 2020
This week’s suggested topic: None No suggested topic this week. How is everyone holding up? Continue reading The Women+ Thread For April 9th
A few weeks ago, I was hanging out with my brother’s GF and him over at their place. Out of the blue, she suddenly dropped this one on me: What is your opinion on women and high heels? My brother … Continue reading Dating, Relationships, and Sex: Societal Pressures (04/08/2020)
For Help and Crisis resources, refer to the link in the Health and Identity tab at the top of the page, or click here Sometimes we need to talk about some things. This is a phenomenally caring and kind group, … Continue reading Mental Health Thread 4.8.2020
Hello and welcome to Color Outside the Lines, a weekly discussion space for people of color. Firstly, apologies for the absent thread last week! I got a bit mixed up in my days and mistakenly thought the 1st of April … Continue reading Color Outside the Lines: Comfort Media in the Time of Corona
Welcome to the Spoonie Thread, a place for all your rants, ravings, and tales of medical woe. What’s a spoonie? It’s a person living with a chronic illness or disability. Spoon Theory is an explanation of how chronic health problems affect one’s … Continue reading Limited Spoons in a time of crisis
Last updated: 11th April – added National Education Union link Many of you may already be in government mandated isolation. Or you may have chosen to self-isolate. If you haven’t already, then it’s probably coming soon – this is a … Continue reading The Avocado Isolation Survival Support Group
Some guidelines to help this space be a positive experience for everyone: As always with the Avocado, don’t feel compelled to share beyond your comfort level. Anyone who identifies as female, or who was socialized female/AFAB/otherwise has firsthand experience with … Continue reading The Women+ Thread Comforts Us
OH MY GOD WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH THE TITLE, DROP?!?!?! Hold on, calm down, everything’s fine. Well, except … *wildly gestures at state of world*. I have actually given some thought to this! The wrong thoughts mayhaps, but thought, … Continue reading Dating, Relationships, and Sex (04/01/2020)
According to the Asexuality Visibility and Education Network, “An asexual person is a person who does not experience sexual attraction.” But it’s more complicated than that. Asexuality is a broad spectrum, and anyone who identities with or has experience on … Continue reading A+: Asexuality Thread
For Help and Crisis resources, refer to the link in the Health and Identity tab at the top of the page, or click here Sometimes we need to talk about some things. This is a phenomenally caring and kind group, … Continue reading Mental Health Thread 4.1.2020
Some guidelines to help this space be a positive experience for everyone: As always with the Avocado, don’t feel compelled to share beyond your comfort level. Anyone who identifies as female, or who was socialized female/AFAB/otherwise has firsthand experience with … Continue reading The Women+ Thread Is a Little Lonely
Hey there, sports fans! Guess what? The Avocado now has its very own Folding@Home team. The TL;DR version for folks already in the know: Our team code is 249704. Folding@Home is a “…distributed computing project for simulating protein dynamics, including … Continue reading The Avocado Folding@Home Team
Right, new host here: Dropwing. Sorry about that. I know, I know, most disappointing. Which, incidentally, is what my dates tend to say afterwards. Whooops, did I type that out loud? How embarrassing. Which … is what I mumble to … Continue reading Sex & Relationships (03/25/2020)
For Help and Crisis resources, refer to the link in the Health and Identity tab at the top of the page, or click here Sometimes we need to talk about some things. This is a phenomenally caring and kind group, … Continue reading Mental Health Thread 3.25.2020
Hello and welcome to Color Outside the Lines, a weekly discussion space for people of color. A HUGE thank you Merve and a continued thank you to Ardhanari for this thread and all their work in maintaining it coming up … Continue reading Color Outside the Lines: Colorism
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