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

For my birthday, I wanna give gifts to other humans: specifically, Team Autostraddle. If you donate, you’ll be giving me the best birthday ever, and I’m willing to bake you cookies or even raffle off an A-Camp campership and more!

This week in lit links: book-inspired ice cream, why “women’s stories” aren’t the same as stories about women’s lives, writing gay YA in Russia and more.

Let’s make bulkas together in anticipation of breaking the Yom Kippur fast on Saturday evening. This recipe includes a photo of Vanessa as a small child, a short instructional video, and an until-now top secret family recipe. L’chaim!

Put a rainbow on this week’s party as we watch the video for “The Gayest of All time”, listen to Taye Diggs ruin hip hop, and check out the new show about women in prison from the creator of “Weeds”.

It’s cold outside, so heat things up with warm, spicy colors and dark smokey eyes. Nothing’s hotter than copper, cinnamon and mulled wine or more festive than emerald and cobalt.

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.

This week on Glee, everybody competed in a big contest and some people won and some people lost and other people ate pudding for dinner with forks!

I can’t say any of us were thrilled to sign up, but we knew what we had to do: we had to sign up for a dating app and prepare to meet a lot of ladies… for science.

Welcome back to the wonderful world of Glee, where boys tongue-kiss each other at school!

This week in Rosewood, Emily and Paige queer a hoedown! That’s right, it’s girls dancing together in plaid and cowboy boots!

“Brandon asks Mike why Stef wasn’t wearing a vest. Geez Brandon! Not all lesbians wear vests! But then I realize he means “bulletproof vest” and let this slide.”

This week in Rosewood Rumer Willis drops by to show off some sexy pictures of Emily drilling. Drill, baby, drill.

“When they pry themselves apart, Lexi tells Jesus that her parents took her computer and phone and locked her away in Cookie Monster’s tower where she has to spin gold.”

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

Paige throws Emily a surprise birthday party but Emily shows up completely pissed off. This is not going to end well.

Okay. A murderous, cyber-stalking, all-knowing bully I can grasp, but any teen girl talking to her dad like this? No way.

It’s Open Mic Night in Rosewood and Emily’s about to learn just how good Shana is at fingering.

Welcome to the seventh episode of American Horror Story, featuring an award-winning musical score by Hans Zimmer. I’m sorry, that’s not Hans Zimmer; it’s two goblins humping on a Casio keyboard. My mistake.

bell hooks is still right, Hillary Clinton becomes a thing of television history, and Aubrey Plaza looks great in those glasses.