In which Maura makes a friend, the siblings continue to make terrible interpersonal choices, and also there are some geese.

An over-the-shoulder-comment-award-holder.

This is a story about the family that I lost and found and almost found at various The Cheesecake Factory restaurants across America.

“Have the meeting. Ask the youth what they want and need from this group. Start over and do those things. This isn’t about you at all, not anymore.”

Where would you go on your queer pilgrimage?

If you have a uterus and get a period, this step-by-step is for you. If you don’t, you’ll still probably LOL.

In which I relearn a lesson about technology I had forgotten.

This is an OPEN THREAD for you to talk about anything and everything. Come on in, the water’s non-existent.

First of all, I don’t care if the festival is at a beach resort, in the middle of a cornfield or on actual Mars, I will never wear white to anything.

What even is cooking? How does it work? You heat something, and then what? Nope, too hard. Really the only food I feel confident about being able to pull together and consume is some sort of thing I can put into a bowl and mindlessly dip chips into.

“Are we doing this? Is this real?”

Peanut butter love, uteruses as fictional characters and open thread chatter, #Blessed

A girl spends 19 days in rural Tennessee with her girlfriend and her family, takes a million pictures, then tells her whole life story in just under 4,000 words. What’s not to love?

My cat loves Autostraddle, an OITNB writer realizes she’s gay while working on the show, global governments are changing, the kidnapped Nigerian school girls may be found, and activists are as fierce as ever in fighting injustice.

“It is a crystal clear, paint-by-the-numbers picture of chronic police hostility toward African-Americans. This is anti-blackness in America. Make no mistake.”

Last week I was on a mountain with no internet! So welcome to your very very overdue “Faking It” recap, just in time for tonight’s episode.

“Male, female, what’s the difference? Power is beautiful and I have the power.”

Fighting for rights, celebrating identities, raising money, listening to good music, and making powerful critiques–news as usual this week!

Have you picked up your zip-up hoodie yet? You can get one on sale today! They’re softer than the bottom of a baby pig, you guys.

“Journalist dude’s mouth says ‘no problem, let me know if you change your mind’ but his face says ‘I AM VRY DISAPPOINTED IN U PIPER U ARE ACTING LIKE SEASON 1 PIPER RN’.” Caputo makes a cameo with a tiny plant.