This leather key fob is easy to make and is a perfect introduction to working with leather — it can be made in a flash once you’ve got all your tools and supplies together.

Buffy is a queer rite of passage. Everybody’s got a Buffy story. These are some of ours.

They’re not girlfriends, they’re just a toasted trio of flakes, twigs and granola cereal!

In November, Team Autostraddle went on their very first Olivia Travel vacation and it was really awesome and this is their story.

Official rankings of five influential boxed wines from a Boxed Wine and Artisan Women-Made Cheese Tasting I conducted at a recent Autostraddle event.

We’re going to need to use our bodies and our voices as weapons against the Trump administration. We’re going to need to be brave.

If you’re having trouble shaking the feeling that all of your media feeds are one giant grief orgy, try changing the pace of what you take in. Not even the content, necessarily — just the rate. Podcasts are an easy way to do that: 30 to 60 minutes later, you’re done, informed, and ready to fight your next battle.

Kristin is bringing her advice show, Getting In Bed With Kristin, to Autostraddle’s Facebook live!

Just some numbers and charts and graphs about this year we all experienced together!

Clockwise from the bottom left corner: notebook and bank statements; office supplies and ailing succulent plant; hand cream and lip balm; bowl of pills and kleenex; pen stand that a group of my A-Camp campers had made for me; coasters; mug my friend Laurie made that says I DON’T FUCKING CARE IF YOU LIKE IT, containing pens; jar of pens and speedball roller, light-up heart that says LOVE from my person; more kleenex??; wrist braces; other notebook, crochet hook and A-Camp patch; mouse and mousepad; laptop and earbuds; wallet and book of poetry by Matthea Harvey called IF THE TABLOIDS ARE TRUE WHAT ARE YOU?

This week in lesbianage, Lily celebrates a dead composer’s birthday while wondering why she can’t major in “being Whitney Houston”…

We’ve got huge markdowns on classic merch, so much new merch, AND you can get three rolls of Queer Wrapping Paper for $1 each with ANY PURCHASE in the store. Order by Friday to get your merch in time for the holidays!

Regardless of the challenges that still lie ahead, from the DAPL project to Native safety and sovereignty in general, this news is a major victory for the Standing Rock Sioux and their allies.

Knowing I could take on a task and see it through, start to finish, reminds me that the same is true for my writing and my activism, too. I will literally start 2017 with my house in order — and the work I’ll do from there will be much better for it.

Enter Bright Lite — the badass magazine for girls that, true to its name, will bring light to your world, a grin to your face, and much-needed hope to your heart.

One of the most beloved queer YA books of the last decade is being adapted for the big screen. The timing couldn’t be more perfect.

Where do Autostraddle writers write? Check out where we work and what we surround ourselves with when we create this world for you.

Our friends have launched an initiative to convince the electoral college to do their jobs and save us from total catastrophe.

A look at what’s happening with the process of choosing people for the president-elect’s cabinet, and how dangerous they are (very).

What followed was absolute chaos. Pure, unadulterated terror. Those haunted house reaction pictures at the moment of surprise come to life. Girls were shoving each other out of the way but where we were running was unclear. Off the earth? Possibly.