“ok who sent me an autostraddle email address request for kristen stewart”

Okay QTPOC, you’ve got until August 25th to apply! We want each and every single QTPOC who wants to be at Camp to be there, and maybe it’s you! Seize the day! Catch the worm! Apply! Apply!! Apply!!!

Stephanie Beatriz and Natalie Morales talk queer Latina power with the Advocate, refugee and activist belly dancer Shrouk El-Attar, a cafe in Mumbai that hires transgender servers, “Queering Desi,” Brazil makes legal gender marker changes easier, Mara Wilson on feminism and angry women, and of course Earring Magic Ken.

Alyson Stoner, who rose to fame through dancing in music videos and starring on the Disney Channel has come out in a beautifully moving and deeply vulnerable personal essay about falling in love with a woman.

“Look, I’m sorry! Every year the concept of pride sounds great in theory and then when it actually rolls around, it’s like New Years Eve on acid.”

“I hadn’t yet come to terms with being a lesbian, so I also spent a lot of time making excuses not to have sex.”

We’re bringing A-Camp to the midwest and we wanna see you there!

“Are you familiar with the Jughead Lesbian Style Debacle of 2018.”

Two of the cutest cities in the Mitten State want you to come say hello! Yes, “the mitten state.” How adorable is that?

“Wanna team up for a little destruction?”

So you want to host a trivia event for Autostraddle Meet-Up Month or really for any reason at all? Here’s how to make sure it’s a good one!

Our BIGGEST ADVICE BOX EVER! Highlights include: tips for lesbian sex on an airplane, helping others to use your correct pronouns, how to survive a family holiday, getting over your first high school heartbreak, getting out of an abusive relationship, finding new friends as a queer adult, and dental dams! Just to name a few!

The queer YA books you’ll want to read at the beach, the park, and everywhere else this summer!

The kind of miniseries that seems like a great idea when your fever is at its highest, truly.

Also: God Friended Me is heckin’ gay, HTGAWM celebrates Spirit Day with purple and more hints of an Annalise/Tegan hook-up, Bre-Z is so good on All American, and just a little misandry on The Purge.

Some of these songs and/or albums are dark, slow, and ponderous, great for really sinking into your mattress. Most of them, though, are cute, sweet, upbeat tracks that helped me keep going when it seemed like I was going to never leave my house again.

(Without camping outside a Supreme store.)

Read these essays and feel inspired to apply for and/or donate to the campership fund for our September 2016 camp in Wisconsin!

In this sex diary: Tinder spanking dates, post-breakup anxieties, sex in a tent, and a lot of thoughts on fucking your friends.

“As soon as we met Tara and Tony, our lives morphed to make room for them. Instead of drinking Carol’s parents’ liquor on Friday nights, we went to their apartment in Hillcrest to smoke pot from a bong filled with Midori and play with Tara’s snake.”