This week I thought I’d light a fire, pour out some drinks and get up close and personal. Let’s take a look at the comics I reserve each month at my local comic shop, shall we?

There is so much LGBTQ Canadian awesomeness in this post that we can hardly believe it exists (there’s a PLAYLIST, even!), but that doesn’t mean we don’t need some more Canadian feelings from you.

“I may be preaching to the choir here, but please, everyone, go and buy this comic, go and preorder this comic, go and tell your friends about this comic, go and spread the Lumberjanes gospel.”

“He didn’t feel any pain. He died instantly.” That was how she told me that my father was dead. I was 14.

“13. I’d tell her that I always wished I had an Easy Bake Oven and she’d tell me she conveniently still had her Easy Bake Oven and we’d see all the different adult cuisines we could make from it.”

Now, I come bearing the ultimate gift: a selflessly and tirelessly compiled list of future Autostraddle Pride meet-ups that has all the information you’ll need to hop on this crazy train of life and ride it right into Hangin’ Out With Cool Strangers Or Maybe Event Old Friends station.

Oh, is OINTB’s second season premiering? Let’s talk about that time when Autostraddle sent me and AS Fashion Editor Lizz to the GLAAD Media Awards in New York to do some red carpet interviews and we ended up cuddling with the cast of Orange is the New Black.

Pivot TV will be premiering the hit lesbian comedy web series “The Better Half” starting Wednesday, June 4 (9pm ET/6pm PT).

THINK OF HOW GOOD IT’LL FEEL TO RETURN ALL THE LIBRARY BOOKS.

Let us celebrate the life and legacy of a civil rights heroine, Yuri Kochiyama.

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.

President Obama is puttin’ his rainbow mardi gras beads on, Rachel Jeantel has a diploma (bitches!), and also: A BEAR IN A HAMMOCK. IMPORTANT.

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

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

This week on “Faking It,” everybody gets ready for a three-way!

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.

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

Lumberjanes #2 (the comic from Intern Grace and a bunch of other super talented people) came out and it is just as filled with excitement, fun and mystery as the last issue (with smooches added for good measure).

It’s time for another week of activism and adorableness!

Party in your onesies with Hannah Hart, one of my favorite sketch videos of all time, a cat with places to go, and Samira Wiley.