Sometimes it feels like every single person in Bon Temps is constantly going through the worst lesbian breakup of all time.

“[No one can break] the spell laid by language on this word.” Happy Halloween, witchez.

“Of course, we abandoned the trail and set off in flip-flops, so our adventure was a little less Indiana Jones, and a little more Troop Beverley Hills.”

Topics include Claire Danes, missionary/colonialist collectors, the death of Kendrick Johnson in Georgia, the Lusty Lady, Gone Girl, Thomas Pynchon, growing up Chinese in America and more!

“I came out in my academic writing explicitly in 2003 because I knew that situating myself relative to relations of power in engineering, in academia […] was essential to the project of introducing critical pedagogies in my engineering classes. “

As summer’s come to a close and the air’s gotten a bit cooler, I’ve found myself in downtempo synthpop land.

Kristen’s Team Pick: Use a lorem ipsum generator to fill out your dating profile for when you’re too distracted by all of the potential boob dates to remember how to write in English.

Don’t let the door hit you, Prop 8.

More of our lives are lived digitally by the day, and it’s time to start thinking about what happens to all this when we die: do we want it to go to someone else, to be erased, or to remain indefinitely in the ether(net)?

This week marks the 44th anniversary of Woodstock, the music festival that changed the world.

We brought on a bunch of new people and you should probably get to know them a little better. Someone’s cat just had kittens! Neat!

Or as I like to call it, A Journey Through Six Hundred Slices of Bread to Her Heart.

Go out to your local Halloween store, buy a overpriced plastic witch’s hat, and prepare to hold the fuck onto it!

“I want queers who feel familiar… I want to wonder if we knew each other in a past life.”

Topics include assisted living facilities, the militarization of the police, work, bike shops, Intervention, grief, TV ratings, cotton farmer suicides, Woody Allen’s New York and more!

“But then Mulan came charging out of the closet, and one million homos stood up and said I KNEW IT, I FUCKING KNEW IT, MOTHERFUCKING HONOR TO US ALL.”

“But then again, my favorite princess was Belle, whose Stockholm Syndrome didn’t register as an issue to me, so long story short: Disney princesses fucked with all of our childhood concepts of healthy relationships.”

I look forward to your angry defensive comments re: the benefits of ingesting menstrual blood.

Nothing is more awkward that coming out to your friends’ parents or your parents’ friends. This week on Pretty Little Liars Emily handles it like a champ.

Here are some women – queer, feminist, or courageous long before either of those terms was invented – whose names ought to be common currency, and on it too.