Working at Autostraddle has been my dream job and it’s been my dream community, but it’s time for the next phase in my life, so I need to say goodbye.

Last week’s Shabbat was a tragedy. Let us make this week’s Shabbat a space for mourning, for healing, for connecting, for resisting, and for peace. Shabbat Shalom.

Disney has a lot to answer for.

The inevitable list of ways to wear bandanas.

Queer Soup Night debuted in Portland, OR last weekend and raised $1,200 for local organization Nxt Lvl. Also, everyone looked VERY cute serving and eating their soup.

“Here was a community where race apparently didn’t matter, because we were all humans, made in the image of God. Where a pacifist, sensitive, caring Jesus was the primary male role model. I finally felt at home. I was promised complete acceptance and understanding, and all I had to give was… well, everything.”

The following eight memoirs, which deal with gender, food, writing, relationships and more, reflect soft femmes, tomboy femmes, chapstick femmes, and other femmes who aren’t all that femmey.

You’re really gonna wanna see this video Heather made us while on painkillers after taking apart her Roomba to see if she could put her Roomba back together.

“Out beyond ideas of likable and unlikable comments there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”

Some very cool ladies to remember in all that we do

“She wouldn’t let me sit next to her on the bus on the way to camp! For some reason, I had this elaborate Charlie’s Angels-esque fantasy about her where we kicked down the emergency door of the bus together and like idk did a heist or something?”

In general, my bi friends understand the alienation, erasure and self-doubt that comes with being bisexual in a “can’t you just pick one” world. By seeing and believing each other’s negative experiences, we help each other reduce the harm of those things.

It’s you and like 85 of your closest Autostraddle friends posing with your favorite books! Get in here!

“I am so glad I joined A+ (even though it led to me drinking literal vodka water)”

btw we have some bonus Lesbian Kens in this post for you

If you’ve got an ex-girlfriend, we’ve got a Ken Doll for that.

Once upon a time you told us a bunch of stuff about yourself and now I’m gonna tell you what you told me, but with pictures!

In which we learn that Riese has never actually seen Practical Magic, and might have to send back her toaster.

I’ll never be able to think of the band LMFAO in the same way again.

Bright candy colors, glitter, rose gold! Get in here for some serious adorn porn.