“The way you can bring together Jews from all walks of life to share a holiday together over a meal made with love and a table filled with candles, wine and challah, and we can join together in song and laughter and interruption and feel quickly like family because, well, we are.”

“I’m going to make a shirt that says Rachel Is Right or maybe Listen to Rachel.”

30 questions! IS ONE OF THEM YOURS?? Wow!

“I sent you a Facebook message about ‘Werewolf Bar Mitzvah’ and that’s really where our romance began.”

“After that summer, all I wanted was reassurance — not from other people necessarily, but from myself. I would have loved to talk to my adult self and ask her a million questions: Am I ok? Do I make it out of my teens alive? Who do I turn out to be, in the end?”

7. The Ghost of Hope for the Future of America

If your name is Alyssa, Nancy, or Kai… I have news for you. That news is that you are gay.

Autostraddle staffers opened their bags — you’ll never believe what happened next!

Need a break from all the transmisogyny and cissexism of the world? Want to come to California to hang out with a few hundred other queer women and folks on a mountain? Then I’ve got some super great news for you!

Outplay is sending a camper to A-Camp — enter to win a Campership PLUS a swimsuit for the pool party!

In which Claire and Whitney talk to folks who have planned or hosted meet-ups and ask them for tips and tricks they’d pass along to others. Also, there’s a lot of dreaming big in here. Get into it!

The rise of social media and the triumph of trolls has led many popular websites to shut down comments or let them spiral into extinction. NOT US.

The panelists for our A-Camp workshop on “Turning Your Passion Into a Business” chat on the benefits, drawbacks and rewards of starting your own business.

Chances are good I hate your cat because it makes me sneeze. But do you know who doesn’t make me sneeze? Simba.

“By the way, what the heck is going on with Diane? Is she possessed? Has she always been a secret mythical ancient being? Why is she saying the golden bow that the girls found is hers?”

We recorded a song for you!

“Get ready to do meta-reality somersaults about sci fi, chihuahua tossing, and Russian literature.”

“It was like needing food, and eating a pile of smooth, round stones instead. It was almost a life.”

Also! Updates on American Horror Story: Double Feature, New Amsterdam, Legacies, Nancy Drew, Home Economics and High Town!

Bushwork — work done in the backcountry, often off-grid — offers a kind of freedom difficult to find in modern life. It is also a culture steeped in toxic masculinity in which queer women do not have a place.