It’s that time again! For the EPIC ENORMOUS gift guide in which all of us tell you what we want and then you go get the things for somebody else.

Our Leo/Virgo cusp baby is definitely moving into Virgo territory.

How to be a person and/or a brand and/or a confessional female memoirist, Huffington Post Gay becomes Queer, optimizing your to-do list, a reporter in trouble at The Intercept and more pressing stories from the edge of your supportive office chair!

I’m not a crier. I really resist the idea that hormones affect me, but pregnancy hormones affect me. OMG.

“Own it, grrl. The world is getting queerer and queerer, and all the big businesses that refuse to acknowledge that are in their death throes. Your time is coming. Follow your heart. Do what you love. Start now.”

It’s gonna get really real in here.

“This will become a regular thing — a weekly recap of what’s working for me and what isn’t on my personal quest for improved health and wellness. There’ll be a lot of ground to cover because I have no fucking clue what I’m doing. Everything I know about health was taught to me by a giraffe that lived in a trailer.”

Our panel answers your questions about getting knocked up, adopting, the challenges and rewards of queer mom life, and so much more!

“There were good reasons we hadn’t started trying. But the bigger reason, which came out right there in a flood on cobblestones in the French Quarter, was that Simone wanted me to carry her baby, and that was maybe going to be impossible to achieve.”

Topics include the report on Rolling Stone’s UVA story, the shuttering of The Bold Italic, how the hell does networking work, the VIDA count and MOAR!

In which our loved ones have something to say about the words we write.

The NIH has spent millions to find out why lesbians are more often overweight than straight women. But is it a matter of public health, or a product of the accepting nature of queer culture?

“Whether or not you are out in the world, being queer and belonging to a community of marginalized folks (even if it’s a community you only align with in a spiritual or distanced way) has its own problems with feelings of enoughness and the disenfranchisement or everyday trauma of living with an identity that is consistently questioned or belittled.”

The recent scandal surrounding the disturbing messages leaked from American University’s Epsilon Iota is a national story, and sheds light on a national problem. The response of AU students shows us something, too — how students can organize as a community to force their administrations to take action against campus sexual assault.

I’m flying to Canada today so this seemed like a good opportunity to think about all the other times I’ve been to other parts of Canada!

With Amish apple pie with streusel, the base ingredients are just so tasty that there’s really no bad way to combine them.

It’s everything we want this year! And probably a few things you want, too.

Or more accurately, Easter egg leftovers.

“Equally damp and flannel-friendly as its neighboring cities, it’s pretty much raining lesbians in Tacoma.”

With the right strategies and the right recipes, I’m gonna make it.