Hey there, Autostraddlers. I’m Claudia, and I’m intersex.

“Coming out never ends, and for some of you it hasn’t even begun.”

“There is no better feeling than knowing you can’t do something, just knowing it to the core, and then surprising yourself because you can.”

Sometimes you just want a role model.

“I called it sexual assault at first. Sexual assault seemed less damning, less permanent.”

Once upon a time I married a man, had kids, and realized I was a lesbian. Here’s what happened and what I wish somebody had told me at the time.

We wanted to sit down and share stories with you around this virtual campfire to somehow express one little piece of what it means to be queer and a person of color in this crazy, crazy world.

That’s it, I’m dating myself.

The eyes are all asking are you in, or are you out?

If Lindsay Lohan is the ‘most pathetic person alive’ then I must come in at a close second. After all, I’ve been in and out of rehab twice as many times. And the way the media is talking about Lohan is really pissing me off.

Gabrielle Rivera wanted an all-queer cast for her first short film. When she ended up with straight girls in her three butch/AG leads she found herself giving them a crash-course in abandoning gender norms, taking up space and playing gay. And then everything changed, forever.

The taco truck isn’t f*cking around. What do you want? A taco? The people working in the taco truck want you to have that taco. (Eight Honest Things About New York City according to someone who was there for like, three weeks.)

Riese tells one of many versions of her story, Laneia tells the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The latter is the most important thing we’ve ever published on Autostraddle.