“Femme in the Summer, Butch in the Winter: A Seasonal Fluidity.”

It’s time for the 2016 Autostraddle Reader Survey! Are you ready? (I don’t think you’re ready!)

Laverne, our queen! Let’s do this!

Here’s a resource to help you and your parents navigate your coming out together!!

“As a poet, I normally have time to carefully construct my sentences, my metaphors, etc., but here I didn’t have any preparation, and honestly, I don’t think I needed any.”

“I have a very precocious eight year old daughter who began speaking at nine months and decided that she would marry a woman before she turned two. She learned the term lesbian from the show Supergirl, and now matter of factly proclaims herself a lesbian to anyone.”

Hey you yes you, are you new here? Welcome! Get in here and let’s all hang out!

Laura and Carmilla drop the pretense of “office furniture-related slips” and (re)confess their love for each other.

Also: 3D printed clitoris models, algae fuel, and scholarship opportunities.

Politics, Black Lives Matter, Flawed Data, Weed—all were discussed at Lesbians Who Tech, proving that there’s no other technology conference like it.

Welp! That debate happened! Only two more to go.

Counterfeit sex toys, the secret history of graham crackers and masturbation, and some smut just for you.

Also, Holland Taylor built a shrine to her girlfriend, Gaby Dunn joins the bisexual government and Annie Clark doesn’t have time to talk to you.

You’ve got one wild and precious life to live. Why not spend a day of it with a spatula in your hand while someone else preps the Tofurkey sausages and then sit back in a lawn chair and put some coleslaw in your face surrounded by a bunch of people you’ll soon find yourself hopelessly in love with?

You love Native designs, support racial justice, and want to contribute to the growth of Native fashion and communities? You’re in luck!

Exodus International counters GLSEN’s message of tolerance with the “day of truth.” Health care is changing in NY and marriage recognition is changing in MD; Miss Beverly Hills is just as bitchy but not as pretty as Carrie Prejean, and the NAACP’s feelings about gay marriage could be maybe on the way to changing. Stuff might be happening again with the Prop 8 trial, people in the Netherlands are protesting the Catholic Church’s exclusion of gays, because obvs Jesus would love to go to your gay wedding.

The queer aesthetic here is so strong and bold and aggressive. It looks you straight in the eye turns you queer. It’s a queer gorgon. It’s queer medusa.

Welcome to the world, Remi!

This week we’ve got allergies, The Babysitter’s Club, throwbacks and so much more.

It’s called Buffering the Vampire Slayer and there’s gonna be original song recaps in each episode. It’s true!