How do you solve a problem like Helena? Probably not with marijuana.

How to tie someone up by the ankles when you don’t know how to tie someone up.

It’s the season finale of Orange is the New Black, and so much shit is about to go down. Ride with me.

Were mermaids the original lesbian separatists? What thrilling editorial conversations were had this month? Those questions and more are tackled in this peek behind the curtains.

Part of the reason that initial knitting attempts stall out (or never get started) is that we don’t have enough achievable motivation. Check out these easy, diverse projects that all rely on the simple garter stitch.

For a myriad of reasons, we all somehow ended up clicking over to this very special place called Autostraddle Dot Com at some pivotal point in our queermo lives, and now we’re all still here making it happen! In this roundtable, our editors and writers share their “root” — the posts that brought them here for the first time.

Because there was no way to fit another Halloween into the senior year the Liars have been living for the last five years, we earned an actor retrospective!

This is an essay about searching for the most effective ways to engage those ambivalent, apathetic, or misinformed people who might otherwise find themselves on the right side of justice.

I wanted to create these mini shrines devoted to the badass bitches, feminists, queers and women of color, who’ve paved the way for us, so that we can be inspired and empowered by them everyday.

“I cried on the plane. I realized, stark as night, clear as day, that the silence was killing me. Instead of moving through a moment, I was trapped inside of purgatory.”

Aside from our deep Marceline feelings, however, is the plain and simple fact that Marceline has presented all over the fashion spectrum — from androgynous to straight-up femme — all while looking effortlessly like a rock star.

Summer shorts, Kristen Stewart and dino dykes.

I emailed my dad, Bruce, and my grandma, Phyllis, and asked if they’d like to have a three-generational conversation inspired by the book. They agreed, and so we all read it and converged on my dad’s house to discuss.

“Gayest City”… not so much. But we’re cooler than you think!

Some seem relevant, at least to my interests (.camp) and some seem like a facepalm waiting to happen (.sexy). But the one you haven’t seen quite yet is .gay, though not for lack of trying.

Following NY Mag’s inexcusable cover story on sexual predator Terry Richardson, our own Robin and Carly bring you “Neither Artist Nor Predator: The Mary Dickerson Story.”

Boy do y’all love to read about rope bondage!

Tiny little banners jazz up any situation. Also, people will be really impressed with you.

Elicia Sanchez is a stand-up comedian living and joking in Seattle though this week she has temporarily relocated to Angelus Oaks as part of the talent line-up for A-Camp.

“I used that lip gloss, that purple holographic, because I knew it would look great on her, but I wanted it to look like she just ate some futuristic fruit and she was so happy about it she didn’t bother to wipe her face. The glitter in her hair looked like a halo in the dark. After the portrait she told me she planned on sprinkling glitter in her fro on a regular basis.. She couldn’t stop smiling.”