The most important item on this list is #5.

What do you want your 2015 to look like? We need to know right now.

If you thought all we could do was sit in our chairs and type words on a screen, prepare to have your mind blown!

So maybe my pregnancy path isn’t as simple and straightforward as baby books would have you believe it should be because I’m a poor QPoC with anxiety, but it has been an interesting worthwhile journey so far. I can’t wait until I can take the next step.

This holiday season, give the human you adore a sex toy upgrade.

Is “Fatshion” still a thing we’re saying? Either way, here’s some cool clothes to add to your wishlist.

So you’ve recently come out to your family, and it’s the first time you’ve been to holigay dinner since it happened. Autostraddle is here to help you through it.

Considering how special each and every snowflake is who works here, there’s bound to be something in this guide for you, your girlfriend, all your gay friends, and maybe even one of your most badass family members.

“At some point, probably around the time I became a surly teenager and wanted something of my very own to craft and control and create, I decided to start making gingerbread too. At first this was just something I did alone, but gradually my younger brother began helping me, then my older brother, and it kind of became a tradition by accident.”

What do you do when the world gives you a mandatory day off, when nothing is open except Chinese restaurants and movie theatres?

Are you feeling the Holigay spirit? Do you hate me for even bringing up that the holiday season is upon us? Either way, GET IN HERE and tell me all about it.

Apps to predict when Flo visits, the painters paint the house red, when it suddenly turns to chocolate season, etc. LET’S TALK ABOUT PERIODS, Y’ALL!

We’re all striving for something — and that’s actually totally okay.

The NIH has spent millions to find out why lesbians are more often overweight than straight women. But is it a matter of public health, or a product of the accepting nature of queer culture?

“Whether or not you are out in the world, being queer and belonging to a community of marginalized folks (even if it’s a community you only align with in a spiritual or distanced way) has its own problems with feelings of enoughness and the disenfranchisement or everyday trauma of living with an identity that is consistently questioned or belittled.”

“On one hand, she said she fully supported my path to recovery, but in the same breath she would ask me provoking questions like ‘When is fun Ginger going to come back?’ in response to me choosing not to drink.”

Who says Halloween can’t be adorable instead?

The recent scandal surrounding the disturbing messages leaked from American University’s Epsilon Iota is a national story, and sheds light on a national problem. The response of AU students shows us something, too — how students can organize as a community to force their administrations to take action against campus sexual assault.

I’ve never had a candy try to convince me to eat it, yet still fail. But that’s the problem with Conversation Hearts.

I have a lot of strong opinions about most things and this time, it’s things people like doing on Valentine’s Day.