While it’s not clear what role her ordeal with the press played in Lucy’s decision to end her life, these types of stories focusing on the private details of trans people’s lives and bodies serve absolutely no public interest.

Bubblegum sentiments with post-riot grrrl edge. Meet your new favorite band!

“I’m not creating this thing, I’m facilitating the birth. If anything I’m this thing’s midwife. It’s gonna be messy.”

It’s the very first Monday of 2013, and we have a brand new Straddler to kick off the new year. Meet Caro, a Miami native who talks to us about creating a queer girl meet-up group in her city, working for a non-profit that provides education on gender and orientation, and crushing on Chely Wright.

It’s the long awaited season finale of Pretty Little Liars! Questions are answered (sort of), Red Coat is reveled, Spencer goes pantless and Rosewood has a new lesbian couple!

Chloe’s beauty is beyond compare, with flaming locks of auburn hair, with ivory skin and eyes of dark coffee. And Intern Grace? Well, her smile is like a breath of spring, her voice is soft like summer rain and no one can compete with her, yipee!

Google Glass is just that – a pair of glasses. But instead of having sunglass lenses or prescription lenses, they’ve got a computer instead

“As a queer who spends a lot of time with other queers, rallying around our queerness, am I isolating those who have a more troubled history with the word?”

There’s a 99% chance you’re already well versed in kale, but I will recruit the rest into Camp Kale with some shitty haikus.

Gabby’s Team Pick: Help a fellow Autostraddler win a spot for the Women of the World 2013 Spoken Word Tournament

“The observation of white people actually grappling with ideas of class amongst each other empowers me, but it empowers me even more when I know they’re having the same conversation even when I’m NOT in the room.”

This week on Bomb Girls, Betty’s military booty call goes long distance, Vera makes everyone teary-eyed with her perfection, and Gladys’ magical vagina continues to act as a doofus magnet.

Books. Champagne. Gabby and Katrina. Cute queer single girls. How can you say no? (You can’t. So we’ll see ya at The Strand!)

Just in time for this week’s episode of Glee, I finally recap last week’s episode of Glee!

“We kidnapped Intern Grace on our first snowy evening and took her to the Red Roof Inn where we forced her to eat pizza and watch the 30 Rock finale with us.”

We’re making crafts, putting a bird on it and pretending to be Shane.

Because without Destiny’s Child, there’d be no Beyoncé and how else would I have learned to crip walk? Also, something something Half Time show Destiny’s Child.

We’re looking for writing from queer-identified trans* women!

You have exactly one day to get 20% off 2013 calendars, You Do You t-shirts, totes & underpants, Autostraddle This t-shirts, Straddle This boxer-briefs, Unicorn Plan-It shirts, A-Camp t-shirts and totes and “So Many Feelings” Memo Books!

The Top 10 Most Popular Autostraddle Posts of 2012, 2012’s Most-Commented-Upon Posts, Top Search Terms and so much more!