Rachel Maddow, Mallory Ortberg, Roxane Gay, Courtney Love, prison visits, America’s favorite pastimes, fat and femme and reshaping the yoga industry, trans and undocumented, some Bustle bullshit, and so much more!

Star knows that some women have to make impossible choices, that they hustle to survive. I don’t remember the last time I saw a show on network television that embraced this brand of dark, unrelenting Girl Power.

Plus Chantal is back for a minute on Queen Sugar, lesbian orgasms abound on Grey’s Anatomy, and Annalise gets the upper hand on her therapist in exactly one session on HTGAWM.

Hollywood’s reluctance to tell the stories of brown girls has always been rooted in — well, racism; but more precisely— the myth that white stories are neutral and, as such, are more relatable to the broader audience. Brown Girls disproves that myth, creating an imminently relatable coming-of-age story.

It’s a little city full of odds and ends (and some queers) planted in the mountains.

Masculine of center people are often left out of conversations about skincare, but we all deserve to feel good and comfortable in our skin.

How do we want to be seen in our daily lives? How much control do we really have over it? How do we make ourselves visible in a world that often chooses not to see us clearly, and what risks and complications come with it? There’s no one answer, which is why we had all these Autostraddle staffers who identify somewhere under the bisexual umbrella talk about it for you!

Also, Evan Rachel Wood wore a soldier’s uniform and Lauren Morelli and Samira Wiley took in some magic.

Well and that was a damn near perfect season of television.

May is Masturbation Month! Here’s how the AS staff does it, featuring first time stories, all the weird places we’ve masturbated, how we feel about that and more.

Topics include murder, Uber, R Kelly, people getting lost and dying in National Parks, the child molestation scandal on the isolated Pitcairn Island, fast fashion, how Gotham gave us Donald Trump and so much more!

Do you ever wish you could travel back in time and scream at your younger self to open their eyes?

Co-creator, Shadi Petosky is a trans woman and the cast is absolutely packed with queer and trans voice actors like Stephanie Beatriz, Jasika Nicole, Angelica Ross, Cameron Esposito, Rhea Butcher, Tyler Ford, Jazz Jennings, Laura Zak and Petosky herself.

I like to think my morning routine screams “I’M A WRITER” but it probably mostly just screams “I DON’T TAKE GOOD ENOUGH CARE OF MY BODY.”

“I was nineteen when The Con came out, and boy did I ever feel her in my heart.”

“I think for many of us as disabled folk, we’ve come to terms with what we experience — but Nana’s experience of dementia is sort of different in that she doesn’t always know what’s happening or who and what she can trust. We can be empowered about disability at the same time as acknowledging that some of it really, seriously fucking hurts.”

You shed your uterine lining every few weeks! Or maybe you suppress that shedding and call it day! Either way, we want to talk about how that’s going.

“There were all these fairy lights and we drank and were drunk and everything felt warm and easy.”

In which the whole team gets together to answer your pressing questions on topics including being never kissed, living in the suburbs, fashion tips for a trans woman with Cerebral Palsy, getting back into the dating game, starting a freelance career and so much more!

Transparent isn’t a show about any single person. It’s a show about family. That’s what it’s always been and when it focuses on that, it’s at its absolute best.