Treat your friends right and they won’t rebel.

This week in lit: T Cooper’s book soundtrack, favorite LGBT books of 2012, authors playing in the snow, poems from your cat’s point of view and more.

This edition is FULL OF TREASURES. Ali and I read two books and asked ten(ish) questions to poet, writer, and die-hard dyke Ali Liebegott for you. Also, many dog photos!

What in the world do you wear on your feet when it’s pouring rain and 90 degrees? Let’s go beyond the choice between hot feet and wet feet and figure out how to make this work.

Join me on this journey of making things from other people’s tutorials.

If you have read Autostraddle even once, it’s likely that you’ve seen some of Marika’s brilliance in the comment section. She is one of our most frequent commenters, and she was kind enough to chat with me about science, hammocks, food, and family.

I thought, “Hey New York, just cause you wear these cool designer bridges across your rivers and you’ve got some graffiti on your interesting architecture, doesn’t mean I have to like you, okay?” But I do like New York in spite of myself.

Spam gives people a lot of feelings. Some good, some not so good. But let’s turn all of those feelings into hunger (with a side of nostalgia) with Katrina!

Is there a space within sex positivity for those of us who feel uncomfortable doing what sex positivism seems to ask of us?

If you make a better cup of coffee, you can stay conscious enough to learn how to make a better cup of coffee.

I bet you have soy feelings. Why not let them out in limerick form for Soypreciation Month?

Julie wants me to say, “Nothing brings you to comedy.” I guess she means, we were always funny and attracted to funny people so that’s why we are here. And that it wasn’t necessarily a choice. We were born this way. Now she wants me to say, “YES BITCHES, BRANDY WAS BORN THAT WAY.”

“I’ve been doing this shit for half a damn decade, and I honestly couldn’t tell you how any of it happened.”

Even if you’re not a tennis fan, this cocktail is perfect for dinner parties, garden parties, parties where you’d like to have a go at being fancy as fuck.

I like to think all of this travelling has taught me a few things, or else what would be the point? Here’s a list of 10 things I’ve learned as a prairie homo in the great wide world.

Heat up your poachin’ pan and get your Hollandaise arm ready!

After the Trayvon Martin verdict, one particular (12-year-old) bell hooks quote blew up the Internet. It’s not the only part of her philosophy that still makes sense.

How to emerge from that pool of sweat looking fabulous, for humans who wear dresses and makeup.

A brand spankin’ new column with the goal of making YOU the best-dressed queermo at the office.

This week on NSFW Sunday: living apart, what sex does/doesn’t do to your private parts, how to talk dirty in bed, when to change your sheets after sex and more.