“We were thirteen years old, and these stories confirmed our suspicions that the world was a cruel, sad place, riddled with surprise tragedies and untimely deaths.”

Kristen’s Team Pick: This kid knows more about getting along with girls than I do!

“When I see lesbian couple after lesbian couple with not only matching haircuts and clothes but matching skin colours, I feel alone.”

This week’s Straddler is Tiara, better known as Creatrix Tiara around these parts. She chats about the concept of “home”, coming to terms with her sexuality, and how to be a llama.

Eighth-grader McKenna Pope singlehandedly gender neutralized the Easy-Bake Oven.

“I just don’t see why a woman would want to aspire to masculinity when she doesn’t like men.”

Autostraddlers are adorable in real life and online.

I just want to hug A-Campers with my music in friendship.

This massive six-page guide is full of holiday gift ideas and wishes from your friendly neighborhood Autostraddle staffer! We think you’ll find it very useful and inspiring, much like Autostraddle itself. What is modesty?

Music for a real or virtual bunk bed situation.

Welcome to our second round of Straddler on the Street! Today we’re talking to Allison about Utah, the environment, and lesbian utopia.

The South is notoriously friendly. It is also notoriously bigoted. In 2006, the year I moved to Nashville, an anti-marriage equality proposition passed. It felt like a slap in the face and a sign to leave. Six years later, I couldn’t be more happy that I stayed.

“Coming out never ends, and for some of you it hasn’t even begun.”

This week on Glee, everybody danced around to all of my favorite songs!

Happy New Year’s Eve! We’ll be in here talking about our feelings and figuring out how to make the world/ourselves better. And ok, probably drinking.

“What is so difficult and simultaneously interesting about this narrative is that it is not a far-fetched horror story.”

“You Do You” rib briefs and Unicorn Plan-It raglan baseball shirts are guaranteed to look good on you/are now available for consumption.

Get ready for camp (and the rest of your life) by learning how to make friendship bracelets with Ann Friedman.

“It wasn’t until I kissed the second girl that even my therapist at the time laughed at me and told me maybe it was time to accept that my sexuality was not as cut-and-dry as I’d always imagined.”

This week on Bomb Girls and arguably the best episode of the show thus far, we discover that Betty did not, in fact, get pickles, and Gladys can sing, too?