The Bold Type is romanticizing repugnant viewpoints, like hardline immigration and conversion therapy, and treating those issues like they’re things we can just agree-to-disagree on. Also: an inexplicable In The Dark finale.

The Fosters is closing up and spinning off, can I get some affirmation on Tami Taylor being a lesbian in SMILF, lady-gay movies to look forward to in 2018, The Chi, Sarah Paulson, TV this week and so much more!

The thread of videos of police violence against peaceful protestors is miles long now, over 10k protesters have been arrested, Trump sheds more allies, Kristen Stewart marches with BLM, Public Health officials know anti-Black police violence is a national health crisis and more.

This is going to go great, I swear! Here are six tips to get you started.

Everybody on this list except Angela Chase really believes in themselves and I truly do appreciate that in a human being.

Kid’s books with queer characters that deserve your attention, the absurd lie of “pro-choice violence,” fat women onscreen deserve better than crappy love interests, and RIP to Katherine Johnson the G.O.A.T.

Please, help me help you. Push your puzzles aside. It’s time to squirt.

“Rachel — just a heads up that you are at the top of my list of bisexuals most likely to have cut their own hair with a sword.”

If we want to move towards a police-free, abolitionist future, we have to do everything we can create an abolitionist reality right now – which starts with not calling the police into our own communities.

On a day commemorating Black freedom, we, particularly non-Black people, must recommit to freedom for Black trans people.

We are still here and there is still so much good in the world! Here are things to watch on a screen from your home — including Bad Bunny, Lizzo, and Trixie Mattel. Happy Sunday, babes!

Here is a definitive ranking of Good and Gather, because I am an expert.

I can’t believe you people made me learn how to spell Delevingne without even looking it up.

“They were like whatever we have dozens of lesbian bars, we have magazines, we have all of this culture, we have Marlene Dietrich, we don’t need this little girl thing.”

“You can’t have a rulebook or a playbook for how to connect. When you’re queer, it’s about negotiating your own way, when the blueprint doesn’t work for you.” Fatimah Asghar discusses queerness, intimacy and her new short film Got Game, that you can watch exclusively on Autostraddle.

Should you come out to your father who also has narcissistic personality disorder? What do you do with the digital remains of a relationship post-breakup? Navigating privilege, the pandemic and the uprising; feeling “behind” in life, crushing on a quarantine roommate, and more!

This week’s Extra! Extra! reports another bit of news that flew under the radar, this time regarding gun control (it’s not good, you guys). We also cover the heinous violence against three trans women in LA this week, USAID’s erasure of LGBTQ+ people and an update on what’s going on around the US regarding police violence and the protests. And then we turn to the elections – by which I mean Russia, Belarus and the US.

While the return of Stef and Lena Adams Foster to our TV screens was always going to be a cause for celebration around here, their presence — and the presence of six (!!) other LGBT characters — on Good Trouble’s two hour holiday special seemed particularly poignant in the wake of Hallmark’s bigotry.

They’re beauty and they’re grace, they’re puppers from outer space!

“She raises both hands to the orchestra and she smiles into the audience. She nearly breaks her face in two because she knows, she really knows, that she did it. She’s the star.”