There is so much LGBTQ American awesomeness in this post that we can hardly believe it exists (there’s a PLAYLIST, even!), but that doesn’t mean we don’t need some more American feelings from you.

No matter what you like to do to express your own personal brand of Femme, this music will help you get there.

Camp camp camp camp camp camp camp camp camp camp camp camp camp camp camp camp EVERYBODY

“what if grace made a playlist that was done in the persona of a baby bear ending hibernation and coming out of their cave for the first time since winter, would that make this day better”

That girl thinks she’s the queen of the neighborhood.

ELLEN PAGE IS GAY SO HERE IS SOME MUSIC

Maddie and Lauren bring you their feelings about Mary lambert, Macklemore, outfits, Mary Lambert, the music industry, live performances, and Mary Lambert.

This is a good time, self-reassurance, “you’re about to OWN the new year” kind of party. You got this.

It’s “make videos of queer girls covering songs from the early 2000s that will make you feel nostalgic and angsty” week for the people of Billboard Magazine!

If you came to Autostraddle today to procrastinate on your finals work, this is the playlist for you.

We sang, we danced, we laughed, we cried, we bobbed for apples, we got a bear hug, and we lived to tell the tales!

Outer space, long distance love, fashion week and beyond!

A roundup of posts from this week, plus boobs and haikus!

“I shouldn’t have to “reclaim” my dapper style. It was all of ours to begin with.” Two essays on dapper from Anita Dolce Vita and Blakeley Calhoun.

A DJ battle on a mountain top.

It’s gonna be your year. Go get it, tiger.

An epic assortment of games, accessories, totes, posters, notes, gizmos, housewares, kitchen things, apparel and so much more for the bookworm on your list.

If I pitch my tent here will a bear eat me?

Jess talks to The Voice’s Vicci Martinez about her brand new album, coming out, her musical guilty pleasure and of course, The Real L Word.

“911 what’s your emergency / a black man’s walking through my ‘hood purposely”