Octavia Butler and Janelle Monáe, lesbians in lists, Cardi B and SZA, and beautiful women in Drake’s new music video! This Sunday is definitely a funday!

“Wanna team up for a little destruction?”

TAG YOURSELF!!! HAPPY FRIDAY!!! JANELLE MONÁE GAVE US TWO BISEXUAL ANTHEMS!!!

Mermaids are femme icons for a reason. Their siren songs and sensual looks lure troublesome sailors, only for the mermaid to devour them whole and make herself stronger. To put it plainly, a mermaid is a boss bitch. I could use some of that energy in my life right now.

Is love a lie? PROBABLY, but these couples charmed the heck out of us this year anyway.

What TV shows with lesbian, bisexual and queer women and trans characters are on Prime Video? What a good question!

We’ve got dishonorable discharges, mantellectualism, and multiple uses for the phrase “comfortable hole bye.” It’s the Comment Awards!

Also, Holland Taylor took Sarah Paulson to a very fancy eating establishment, Janelle Monáe went to outer space, and Meredith Graves chose her Grammy red carpet selfie very wisely.

Let’s take a look together and see which parts of the film were fact, and which parts were beautiful, exquisite, powerful fiction.

When you’re stargazing, remember Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson’s work. Tell their stories over and over. They’ve been silenced for so long; now it’s our turn to keep them alive.

Where do Autostraddle writers write? Check out where we work and what we surround ourselves with when we create this world for you.

“Jessica Williams would be the type of friend that would tell me to my face that my shirt is open and everyone can see my bra as plainly and swiftly as telling someone her drink order.”

Samira Wiley learns to surf, Angel Haze learns photosynthesis, Janelle Monáe learns face-swapping and we all learn not to sit next to Cara Delevingne at the movies.

Call it the Janelle Monae effect, or just an increase in dapper; suits have gone majorly mainstream. This increase in suit popularity means you (yes you) can pick up a two-piece looker for yourself just in time to look suave for the holidays.

Janelle Monáe on a giant swan, Samantha Ronson’s birthday surprise and a very provocative painting of some clowns.

We hope you and your gal pals enjoy these songs on your Thelma and Louise-esque roadtrip, wherein you play by your own rules, take no prisoners and bring out the best in each other.

Go see Mad Max Fury Road. Go with your fists raised high and salute big, stupid, glorious, Hollywood blockbusters and go see what it looks like when we’re driving the smoking tractor-trailers into the unknown and fighting for our sisters to live free.

Insipid celebrity gossip, and inappropriate speculation now through Valencia.

This is not a how-to guide; there’s no right way to navigate these situations. Let’s share instances of microaggressions and some ways to deal in the hopes we’ll all be able to make it out alive, looking sexy and loving our hardest.

Everybody comes back to help us forget everything that happened while they were gone, like heterosexuality!