August is a steamy time of year thanks to the combined powers of Leo season and the final weeks of hot girl summer. It’s a good time to obsess. It’s a good time to lose yourself completely in a book.

Gottmik wants to show that trans people don’t have to be Barbie and Ken. Or, maybe, in her case, that trans men can be Barbie too.

Hunter Harris in GQ, Javicia Leslie in the Los Angeles Times, Lily Singh in the New York Times, and more!

Winter is coming, so we’re turning up the heat with Halloween costumes that are also hot role play costumes. You’re welcome.

Janelle Monáe’s “Turntables” now comes with a full music video, the radical queer publications of the 1970s, what do we do when the sky is Orange? And this is now officially a Naomi Osaka Stan Account.

Minimalist sex toys are foundational sex toys that can keep you coming over and over.

Everything comes to a head in the midseason finale, as Wynonna faces down enemies old and new and Waverly fights for Nicole’s life.

I surveyed some of the plant parents here at Autostraddle, and we’re all so excited to show off our little ones. If you’re a plant parent, show off your babies in the comments, too!

If the idea of having children as queer women is a fraught and complicated topic, Good Manners opens itself up to the mess.

Also, Kristen Stewart talks to ghosts and Kehlani and Lizzo are too perfect for words.

Tanya Saracho demands more from her characters, from her audience. She requires our discomfort, our willingness to bring all of our messy selves in front of the television.

Nobody plays a piano on a stage like Lady Gaga plays a piano on a stage!

She has boxes of recipe cards; mostly I know their stories and not their flavors. She needs to know what I cook for dinner regularly; she eats a dinner of nibbles and stolen bites. She tells me that sugar is toxic and will cause irreparable harm to my body; she sends me a box of Christmas cookies. Scrumptious little crystals that can tear at my blood vessels from the inside.

Come for the Lindsay Lohan awkwardly dancing in Mykonos content but stay for the picture of Janelle Monáe biting coyly into an olive.

“A bold lip is my femme secret to instant confidence. I could be wearing day-old sweatpants and bed head and a red lip makes me feel READY TO BE SEEN.”

If you’re a lesbian, bisexual or queer fan of “Law & Order,” you might have a shot at scoring well on this very important trivia quiz. #olivia4ever

How old is the oldest dildo? Where did sex toy colors come from? What sex shop originally just sold waterbeds and moodlights? Test your sex toy history knowledge right here!

My first vibrator sucked; here’s how to make sure yours doesn’t.

During the 1800s, most land creation in Boston was accomplished via sea walls (“dikes”) and infill.

The step from “good ol’ boy” to “armed white supremacist mob member” is as simple as believing you have to protect a way of life that’s under attack by an “other.”