Okay, so you have a pen and paper and some feelings. Now what?

The first thing you should know about “Concussion” is that Robin Weigert has sex.

Is this okay to eat?

From Psycho to The Silence of the Lambs, horror movies have a long history of using trans women as insane murderers and creepy villains. It contributes to very real and very violent transmisogyny against actual trans women.

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

“The night was deep and dark over Ellen DeGeneres’ Burbank mansion. Inside her mahogany themed living room, Ellen sat in a velvet high back chair and quietly sipped whisky out of a crystal glass.”

“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.”

Spaceships! Vipers! Raptors! Starbuck! Athena! Cylons! Confusing beautiful things!

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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!

Over 100 people gathered in Cameroon’s capital city to demonstrate for harsher punishment of LGBT citizens, distribute anti-gay pamphlets and hang signs with homophobic messages

Canary, a debut collection of queerish short stories from Nancy Jo Cullen, is all about the everyday. And the weird.

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.

This episode’s theme is “people are mad at Piper and we don’t really blame them that much” and I know y’all agree.

National Poetry Slam 2013! We laughed, we cried, we stayed up until ungodly hours of the night to cheer on our friends and favorites.