You know what this show really needed was a Christmas episode or a “we’re rich now let’s buy new shoes” shopping mall montage.

Making your own soap takes doesn’t take anything more than the stuff you’ve got in your cupboards and a little bit of daring.

Topics include Shirley Jackson, paper dolls, disaster reporting in Haiti, HIV/AIDS, the Worst of White Folks, Rick James, exes on social media, working at a men’s magazine and more!

This week we’re promised a million big reveals and something called World War A. Also Emily and Paige have a sleepover. You can guess which part I’m more excited about.

For my birthday, I wanna give gifts to other humans: specifically, Team Autostraddle. If you donate, you’ll be giving me the best birthday ever, and I’m willing to bake you cookies or even raffle off an A-Camp campership and more!

In which there is a party, halibut, and a knock at the door.

“At Wellesley, I was never homesick. Not even in the dead of winter, when Boston was buried in snow and Phoenix was at its most palatable, did I miss home.”

Topics include Kimani Grey, stripping in a boomtown, grief, Reddit and the Boston Bombing, Rodney King, “Sex and the City,” Mary Gaitskill, sexism in the Texas legislature, travel guides and more!

“They ask Stef and Lena about their vows and Stef says they’re not doing vows and I start to think that Stef doesn’t understand what a wedding is.”

It’s the 65th annual Primetime Emmy Awards! Let’s all sit around rooting for Amy Poehler together!

New York is more than taxi cabs, street food, and crowds. There’re also mice, rats, and cockroaches! Lots of them! How exciting, right?

The season premiere of Pretty Little Liars finally answered all of our burning questions! Like which college will Emily and Paige UHaul off to in the fall?!

Pretty sure the music our parents introduced us to remains the best kind of music forever, and definitely the best kind of music for driving.

This edition is FULL OF TREASURES. Ali and I read two books and asked ten(ish) questions to poet, writer, and die-hard dyke Ali Liebegott for you. Also, many dog photos!

All those times where you’re like, is it squirt, is it pee, who has to sleep in the wet spot, do we lay down a towel before sex now, etc.

Feedly really shit the bed this week, so let’s give the brand new Digg Reader a try!

“I am afraid help will come too late to someone in my life. I am afraid that closets become coffins.”

Edie is proof that anyone can be an icon. Just ask Andy Warhol.

Ever been punched in a tit before? That crushing pain in your areola and the dense tissue of the breast? Brutal. I’ll take dental surgery over titty punches any day.

Breaking the Girls is not the kind of movie where you are going to see RuPaul in short-shorts. Not unless RuPaul’s corpse is in short-shorts when they find him floating facedown in a SoCal jacuzzi.