“I love being gay because I get to call these brilliant and vibrant queers my friends and family.”

Depression is not forever because it always ends, and depression is forever because it always comes back. It won’t work if I only want to stay on the days when my brain breaks through the muck. Turn Out The Lights is a meditation on wanting to stay on the very worst days.

“Live from my wet dreams, it’s Saturday Night!”

“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.”

Oh did you think there wouldn’t be a chicken in here? WRONG.

Vintage Marni (A-Camp Co-Director) via Summer Scavenger Hunt

These are the documentaries that changed our lives and/or made us better people and/or entertained us. Maybe you’ll like them too!

Some interesting Jewish people to enjoy with your apples and honey.

How do we want to be seen in our daily lives? How much control do we really have over it? How do we make ourselves visible in a world that often chooses not to see us clearly, and what risks and complications come with it? There’s no one answer, which is why we had all these Autostraddle staffers who identify somewhere under the bisexual umbrella talk about it for you!

On this small island, there are eight Scotch whisky distilleries. I visited three of them, all within a couple miles of each other: Ardbeg, Lagavulin and Laphroaig. Here’s what I learned.

This Field of Feelings reminds me of A-Camp

Well and that was a damn near perfect season of television.

“To me, being masculine-of-center means boyishness, it means blurring gender lines, it means a more vulnerable and delicate form of masculinity. It gives me the freedom to not fulfill expectations based on my assigned gender and body.”

“I like to describe Hi-Fi Fight Club as equal parts Empire Records, Sailor Moon and The Baby-Sitters Club. I think there’s some D.E.B.S., Scott Pilgrim, Josie and the Pussycats and Lumberjanes in there as well.”

“I was nineteen when The Con came out, and boy did I ever feel her in my heart.”

“They are the two cutest people on the entire planet and I want tattoos like theirs.”

For the final installment of Queer Crip Love Fest, we turn the cute up to 11.

It’s been a pleasure writing your technology column for the past half a decade. Keep it nerdy, queermos.

Straight girls go to prom together and give each other corsages and admire each other’s ‘necklaces’ all the time, right? Right?

“Patriarchal Bullshit Land” is what I’m calling basically anywhere that’s not A-Camp or Themyscira now.