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Blog Pride Guide 2022

Play Out's Pride Guide 2022 Celebrate Pride Authentically

November 08, 2022
1 min read

Do you long to escape to a universe where you can fight facism with a loving chosen family as you travel the galaxy in a ship whose EverySpeak translator makes sure no one is ever misgendered? Look no further! Charlie Jane Ander’s Victories Greater Than Death is the funny, exciting, queer space opera we’ve been waiting for!

June 08, 2022
7 min read

Book Report i

The Stars and the Blackness Between Them, by Junuada Petrus, is a deeply moving book that focuses on the lives of two teenage black girls from very different backgrounds, Mabel and Audre, as they navigate feeling into their queerness, physical and spiritual healing, racism, and shifting relationships.

June 08, 2022
6 min read

Trans Visibility: Both Vulnerable and Necessary

What does visibility mean to trans folx? How do we balance the real vulnerability and sense of liberation?

April 01, 2022
8 min read

What is Gender Beyond the Binary?

What do the terms manhood and womanhood mean when the gender binary doesn’t exist? Let’s back up a bit. What is the gender binary?

February 03, 2022
8 min read

SuperHxro Project: Behind the Scenes

This project comes from a team of graphic designers, copywriters, illustrators, designers, marketers, and consultants – which makes us sound like a huge crowd; many of us wear multiple hats. With this team we developed five characters: we built out their stories, their passions, and what they want to share with the world.

January 27, 2022
4 min read

Rebuilding Fashion from the Ground Up

Play Out Apparel was started out of a need for comfortable, validating underwear, outside of the cis-hetero-patriarchal gaze of the lingerie market. We are now a gender equal clothing brand and community, offering both athleisure and underwear, as well as education and resources for our community, and allowing everyone to “Shop Your Style, Not Your Gender.” We are queer and trans owned. Play Out is co-founded by CEO Abby Sugar and & Chief Design Officer Grey Leifer. John Lackner, COO, joined Play Out in 2020.

January 08, 2022
7 min read

What 2021 taught me about Self-Preservation

Self-preservation is defined as the innate desire to stay alive. But what does that really mean in the midst of a global pandemic? Many people would define it as the ability to breathe and exist while others may define it as the ability to be, do and have whatever their hearts desire.

January 04, 2022
0 min read

New Year, Same You

You don’t need a New Year’s resolution. The tradition of New Year’s resolutions is tightly connected to the idea that we must be constantly improving ourselves, and that the way to make that supposed “improvement” happen is to put an excessive amount of pressure on ourselves, and beat ourselves up internally when we don’t meet the impossibly high standards we’ve set.

December 25, 2021
7 min read

Pre-Holiday Reflection and Advice

I always end up doing a lot of reflecting this time of year. This year, my mind drifts towards how my habits and priorities shift over time. What impact has my life had on the people I’ve come into contact with in the past year? What major changes have happened in my community? In my family? In the way I treat myself, and how I show up in the world?

December 20, 2021
7 min read

How to Cope with Un-Merry Holidays

What does family mean to you? To many folks, that word brings up a lot of complicated and conflicting emotions. In some instances, family means the people who will stick with you no matter what, and show up for you when you need them. This is a deep bond of love. But in any relationship that lasts for years, there is conflict. The unhealed parts of ourselves rub up against each other, and can cause harm.

December 07, 2021
7 min read

Trans Day of Remembrance

How do you hold the grief of all trans people murdered?

November 19, 2021
5 min read