“Call your heart back. Gather yourself back into the warmth of your deepest loves. Find out what you need to feel safer, to know that we have your back, that we will do our best to keep you with us.”

“I’m doing something I really believe in, that can change people’s lives for ever, that’s good for the planet. I never get tired of talking about how to use natural materials, why they work, and looking at how they were used in the past.”

Valerie Halla’s art is on a higher level, making each panel feel magical and stunningly gorgeous, and her writing really nails the feelings and emotions of queer characters in the most adorable ways.

India Beaty, a queer black woman, was fatally shot by Virginia police for carrying a replica handgun, bombs in Brussels kill at least 31 people, a new study finds Canadian LGB people have chronic stress and drink heavily, The Bronx Trans Collective opens and more news!

Bacteria paintings, bravery vs. perfection, and drag depictions of famous scientists singing that song from Wicked that they did on Glee.

It’s time! It’s time to help somebody go to camp or maybe help YOURSELF go to camp! What a helpful day we’re going to have!

On the very last episode ever of “Faking It,” everybody attends a very weird New Year’s Eve party.

“I made a choice about how I would look, and didn’t realize until I’d done it how unprecedented that was.”

Autostraddle staffers opened their bags — you’ll never believe what happened next!

This week’s New York Magazine Sex Diarist is going on a date with a woman for the first time and it’s totally no big deal.

Boxed In will make you feel known, and it looks like Callie and Arizona are headed to court to brawl over Sofia in the next episode of Grey’s Anatomy.

We’re looking for an ambitious business-savvy Southeast Michigan-based leader with big ideas who can take Autostraddle to the next level.

In our third of four recamps, Elicia Sanchez laughs so hard she almost pees in her pants except she wasn’t wearing pants, she was wearing tights.

This week on “Faking It,” Shane dyes his hair blue for a minute, there’s a new trans character, Amy wants Lauren to star in a documentary about being intersex, Felix comes back and I made you a really neat chart.

A train for stray dogs, lots of good news for the queer kids and parents of the world, a formal victory for Caitlyn Jenner, and more!

A Virginia Beach judge ruled a lesbian parent has the right to custody of her non-biological child, California’s got a lot of LGBT-friendly laws going into effect this year, more “religious freedom” bills in Georgia, Creating Change un-invites ICE from speaking at the conference, and more!

Autostraddle walks you through the entire history of trans female characters on American television from 1965-2015.

Extreme itchy scratchies, body-positive parenting, fat pregnant femme feelings, nesting, dill pickles, Korean pancakes and more as I fly past the eight-month mark.

Plus Callie and Arizona have a conversation on Grey’s Anatomy, and someone who isn’t a lesbian gets killed on Younger.

“It’s the kind of work that makes me look forward to eight hours on my feet holding five pounds of camera in my hands with another seven pounds slung across my back. It’s wonderful to create not just art, but art that makes people feel special and good and beautiful.”