It’s likely that your parents are mulling over their own special set of holigay related dilemmas.

This month’s update finds our Lesbianagelings finishing up their finals and heading back to their homelands. What have they learned about the world and themselves during this first semester of college?

Ten lessons I wish I’d known when I started hormones in February 2011, and why I’m taking an indefinite break from the internet.

“I have always been a traveler, particularly as an immigrant and as a person with family hailing from Venezuela to Dominica to South India, ‘home’, ‘family’ and ‘belonging’ have always been complicated concepts.”

The University recently added an optional question on sexual orientation to their undergraduate application, as well as a non-binary gender option.

Meet Triszh, our very first Straddler on the Street. She’s a student, a New Yorker by way of the Philippines and a devoted veteran Autostraddle reader. You’re gonna love her.

Irish Coffee is basically all my favorite things: Irish Whiskey, whipped cream and, of course, coffee. I drink 2-3 cups of coffee per day and can think of nothing better than adding alcohol to it.

“Tampa is totally fun and fierce and fabulous.”

Amanda is becoming a librarian in Boston and she has things to say about successful long-term relationships, bisexuality, and escorting at Planned Parenthood.

From free healthcare, to the suffragette movement, to Idle No More, the following list describes some of the best in radical prairie activism.

Bam! Season 2 has begun. This episode is called “The Quickening”, maybe for how quickly time has flown by since the end of last season. Kidding! It felt like forever and I wanted to die.

Our favorites from this year’s inconsistent but often lovely cornucopia of women who like other women and aren’t afraid to show it (on television).

Hint: it’s not what The National Organization for Marriage’s Ruth Institute would like you to believe.

Georgia’s got a hot new lesbian in her legislature and she’s at the helm of some pretty progressive policies.

This week on Pretty Little Liars, Emily finally released some of her pent-up rage and Spencer makes the grossest pickle smoothie I’ve ever seen. I wish that was a euphemism.

Eve Ensler (The Vagina Monologues) is back with a new musical play, Emotional Creature, featuring fictional monologues and stories inspired by girls around the globe.

“Why do I still feel the need to give her the weird side-eye and awkwardly laugh when people ask how we met?”

Debates, protests and ridiculous videos over same-sex marriage aren’t limited to this side of the Atlantic.

The New York Times talks to our newest fans – 48 to 66-year-old conservatives.

Zines for gender-neutral kids, unschooling kids, kids and their parents, and totally Wild Children. BAM.