An amazing chill accepting relaxed fun pop-up barber shop party situation where anyone can show up and have a drink, get a haircut, chat to some cool humans, dance quite a lot, and generally have a fanfuckingtastic time.

Let’s take a trip down memory lane with Julie & Brandy, Brittani & Hannah, Croce & Ashley, Alex & Riese, Alex & a blonde wig, Mikey & Raquel, Calendar Girls, Amber Heard and so many more VIDEO STARS.

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.

“It’s the best whiskey-soaked campfire sing-along ever.”

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

As a prairie homo, I have a lot of feelings about the night sky.

Everything is slower in the South. I’m (slowly) realizing that this includes progress.

“This was the first city that I chose for myself, and I’ve never looked back. This is home, and for good reason.”

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.

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

“According to other websites’ ‘Best Of’ lists, I didn’t listen to many good albums this year. So here are ten albums that I predict would have made it on to Autostraddle’s own “Best Of’ list, had I actually heard them.”

Coasters and magnets, together at last.

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.

You know it as the herb you hate or the herb everyone else hates.

These are desperate times – and sometimes it all gets so overwhelming that we need something, someone, to remind us that there is light. That is Jessica Halem.

We coming bearing good tidings of great joy: a gallery of 61 people looking dandy as f*ck for the holiday season.

We’re everywhere.

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

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.

A thiasos was a little like A-Camp.