The Prodigal Daughter of White Trojan Horsery has returned to Litchfield, minus her bespectacled toxic popsicle and plus a newer harder attitude. What adventures await our little vanilla wafer? Time can only tell, inmating ritualists.

Toeing, spooning, kink, crushes, and the almighty Autostraddle Chart. You asked. Riese, Laneia, Rachel, Yvonne and Heather answered!

No salads, no smoothies allowed.

This is an especially epic edition of The Insider, if I do say so myself. There were a lot of funny chats during the Advice-a-Thon and you had SO many questions for the A+ box and Yvonne went on a press trip to Philly and so many other neat things happened!

This month we visit Club Drizzy, Heather gets punched in the face by a racist stranger at the airport, we pause to admire new merch, B wants to interview her not-ex-girlfriend and WHO WILL BE THE BUTT OF OUR GENERATION?

“This is basically all I’ve wanted all my life,” Rachel Kincaid, Senior Editor of Autostraddle, told me.

Welcome to Durham, North Carolina. Come for graduate school; stay forever.

When it’s you against the mangoes, you have to eat your way out.

How to make one of the greatest foods of all time.

Spice up your vases and your lattes.

Eight delicious condiments you need to buy now, my mommy’s chimichurri, and you have to trust me about these cookies.

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

Bet you didn’t realize you could use wonton wrappers to make LASAGNA IN A JAR.

We told so many amazing stories this year, we really gave Storytelling Time in kindergarten a run for its money.

Relationships are no picnic… but wait! Maybe they are!

She didn’t say “I have suspected this for years and I still love you.” It went more like a Scared Straight kind of thing but instead of scaring me about drugs and a life of crime, she wanted to scare me straight, straight. “Just Say No to Lesbianism” straight.

“…I questioned whether or not Autostraddle is a lesbian cult and if it isn’t, how I’m going to deal with my like peaking.” Want to know the context of this sentiment? You need to read this interview and meet Grace.

It might be June, but Kate’s still in school – in England! She’s spending her rainy summer days memorizing Shakespeare and sorting through ancient books.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you daikon, make your own holiday!

TIme to turn your refrigerator stragglers into brunch! Because every day is a good day for French toast.