When society has created a painful stigma around periods (and when periods can also be physically and emotionally painful), why would anyone think about period sex? Because it’s fun, safe, hot, healthy, and normal! • Photo ℅ Medium
Camp Thirlby’s Mercury Retrograde Survival Guide
It delays buses! It cancels flights! It rattles your schedule! It makes you late on the student loan payments you were sure you made on time! It sends exes crawling back to your missed call list! • Collage ℅ Man Repeller
Camp Thirlby’s Love Letter to Witches
Our Camp Thirlby Counselors’ ode to witches across the wicked years • Exclusive art ℅ Geordon Wollner
An Ode to Halloweentown
It’s a story about fall and home, and mothers and daughters, and sisters and brothers, and what makes us different, and what makes us all the same . . .
Sex 101: An Illegitimate Sex Education
While Michael Stipe of R.E.M. lost his religion standing in the corner, I lost mine standing in the bathroom stall of my Catholic high school • Art ℅ Jorge Chamorro
Bisexuality and Pansexuality in Big Mouth Season Three: Hits and Misses
The lack of mainstream and positive depictions of queer identities made it much more difficult for me to fully grasp my bisexuality during this own time in my life. This is why Ali’s pansexuality is important because it has the potential to portray a positive relationship between queerness and puberty • Still ℅ Big Mouth
Camp Thirlby’s Guide to Embrace Rebirth This Scorpio Season
As the sun enters Scorpio, we look towards its ruling planet Pluto, the planet of death and transformation. We can all hope to learn from our scorpion friends and their ability to live boldly and dangerously • Exclusive illustration for Camp Thirlby ℅ Annie Regan
Sex 101: Taking Testosterone with SSRIs
Our Resident Camp Illustrator Emil on their experience taking Testosterone and SSRIs, and how that affects their sexuality . . .
Sex 101: Navigating Queer Dating with OCD
This process of having to try and like someone, even when your brain is obsessing over all of their flaws and all of your flaws and how it can never work, is exhausting. It makes it hard for me to trust that I am right for people and that they are right for me • Collage ℅ Johannes Itten
Camp (Thirl)boo Playlist
A halloween playlist for witches, vampires, ghosts, and all monsters to play during spooky season and the rest of the year; perfect for enchanting large parties or solo spell work (heavy on the holiday cheer, light on the fright) • Exclusive illustration for Camp Thirlby ℅ Annika Bjerke
Unbelievable and the Stories that Get Left Behind
Netflix’s “Unbelievable” brings to light the irreversible damage of not believing victims of sexual assault • Collage ℅ Harper’s Bazaar
Sex 101: The Basics of Lesbian Dating, as Told by the Internet
In 8th grade, I remember desperately wanting a Tumblr girlfriend • Photo ℅ Pinterest, source unknown
Unpacking #Girlboss & “Lean In”: One Woman’s Stallion, Another’s Trojan Horse
Former First Lady Michelle Obama challenged the motto: “It’s not always enough to lean in,” she said candidly, “because that shit doesn’t work.” • Illustration ℅ Annika Bjerke
Sex 101: Dispelling Myths Surrounding Disability and Dating
“But like, can you still fuck or nah?” • Original Artwork for Camp Thirlby by Annie Regan
Marx’s Jumpsuit: Capitalism, Body Image, and the World of Vanity Sizing
Companies—from the Gap to Free People—are shifting their sizing systems in an effort to make shoppers feel thinner • Photograph of Janelle Monaé ℅ Jaime Kay Waxman
Let’s Talk About (Depressed) Sex
Sex and mental health are two of the most ignored and socially stigmatized areas of human existence. Their histories are heavily intertwined and linked to oppression •Art ℅ David Marinos
Camp Thirlby’s Guide to Finding Your Balance This Libra Season
Did it take you 45 minutes to decide on which outfit to wear to impress your class crush this morning? You just might be suffering from Libra season • Original Artwork for Camp Thirlby by Annie Regan
LGBTQ+ Teens Are Finding Solace Through This Gay Musician
Girl in red’s concerts act as safe spaces for queer high-schoolers, out or not, to validate their identities • Photograph ℅ Isak Jenssen
A Not-So-Simple Guide to Getting Over a Crush
I truly wish I had the answer. I wish I had a step-by-step guide you could print out and complete in under 20 minutes • Photograph ℅ Rock the Pixel
If You’re a Notification Hoarder, Please Read This
Hoarding my notifications was essentially an ego boost. It was a shield to hide the fact that I was insecure in my friendships and in myself • Collage ℅ Mehmet Geren