Rachel, Aja, Kaitlyn, Carmen, and Geneva whipped up some totally kick-ass sauces, drinks, appetizers, and entrees for you that are best enjoyed on picnic benches and on paper plates next to a crackling set of coals.

Laverne Cox talks about trans* representation in media, relating to her character and what it’s like being a trans* actress in tv.

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.

Plus: Miley Cyrus puffy painted Caitlyn Jenner for charity, Lady Gaga and Linda Perry tag-teamed on “What’s Up,” Laverne Cox and Lily Tomlin’s “Grandma” gets its first trailer, the USWNT is headed to the World Cup quarters, and so much more information!

Lena and Stef keep secrets from each other, and it is not good. Worse, though, is Jude and/or Connor gets shot!

I hope your terrible facial hair overtakes your face and you choke on it.

Crack is wack.

Emily Heller, Jasika Nicole, Lauren Morelli, and many other dope people picked the favorite thing they tweeted this year and told us why they like it so dang much.

It’s been a great year for hard-hitting investigative journalism.

Lesbian criminals who are members of an international drug cartel, what the fuck else is up.

The pAtriArchy is A, just as we suspected.

“By the way, just to keep the record straight, I was fucking HER! She wasn’t “fucking Lea DeLaria”! I’M THE TOP!”

Rita Volk is having some feelings about bisexuality while Kimiko Glenn from OITNB parties with Marcel the Shell and Mary Lambert.

Someday I will write an article comparing this entire show to Harry Potter, but today is not that day.

“Red’s husband is like, whoa, free-thinking woman, are you on your period or something? Who let you out of the kitchen?”

It was a pretty lame week for queer women on TV, but at least Kalinda and Lana were naked most of the time.

Melissa Harris-Perry interviewed Uzo Aduba, Kate Mulgrew, Laverne Cox and Piper Kerman on her show and Laverne Cox name-dropped Autostraddle and it was awesome.

A look at the stories behind the stories and the humans behind the characters and the numbers behind those stories in everybody’s favorite lezalicious prison dramedy.

Indeed, they are lesbianing together.

While it’s certainly true that one would face numerous logistical difficulties in carrying out murder via poison inside a prison, the rest of the advice in this Orange is the New Black segment is, um, hit or miss.