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

Queen Latifah and Mary J. Blige are co-starring in The Wiz, Raven thinks Caitlyn Jenner is moving “too fast, too soon,” Megan Rapinoe was inducted into the LGBT Athletes Hall of Fame, Tig Notaro has an Amazon pilot on the way, and more!

You know her face, but you’ve got no clue what her name is — 15 of the actresses who aren’t on magazine covers but have shown up in small parts on so many queer-adjacent shows and movies lately that you’re really THIS CLOSE to looking them up on imdb.

What’s cooler than being a superhero? Lesbian Superhero! I said, what’s cooler than being a superhero? Lesbian Superhero! Alrightalrightalrightalrightalrightalrighalright.

When a boy steals your girl, sometimes you have no choice but to arrest him for fake murder.

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

Let’s have a frank, honest discussion about queer and feminist themes in movies about vampires, werewolves, ghosts and centaurs. Also, “Chopper Chicks In Zombietown.”

“Why? Because I WANT to eat pancakes at 2 pm without feeling like a complete waste of human life.”

“Then you think, ‘It’s so funny. We’re toeing.’ It’s funny and then you laugh and feel happy. “

We’re playing with Legos, planning pride meet-ups and coming up for air after OITNB season 2.

12. Getting a macchiato from Starbucks and the barista gets her name right because she’s fucking Raven-Symoné

Toast is, in my opinion, the perfect meal and more than worthy of an entire blog post devoted to its glory.

It’s helpful to know which fake cheeses are so delicious you can eat them straight out of the box, and which are merely bright orange globs of gelatinous sawdust that even the dog won’t touch.

A celebration of all we’ve accomplished in 2013.

“Blaze squinted in the mirror and pushed her hair left, then right, then left, then right, then left, then right, then righter, then really left, then up a little, then all the way down […]”

Samira Wiley has a new film, Hannah Hart is Miley Cyrus, lesbian “SNL” writer Paula Pell’s webseries, a teaser for “Broad City” and the people that reinvented the wheel have a party involving videos.

“Unfit For Product Placement: Radicalizing the Cartoon Characters Of Our Childhoods” is my absolute favorite thing on the internet right now.

If you have read Autostraddle even once, it’s likely that you’ve seen some of Marika’s brilliance in the comment section. She is one of our most frequent commenters, and she was kind enough to chat with me about science, hammocks, food, and family.

A different kind of camp, a book you’ll want to pre-order, a victory for trans* people in the workplace, and LESBIANS.

This dapper WNBA hotshot has more than just jerseys– we’re stealing Brittney Griner’s style.