And about being the parent of a trans kid.

“MAKE TRANS ICON BIRDO A MAIN PLAYABLE CHARACTER IN MARIO CART, YOU COWARDS!”

Or, the queer urge to almost form a cult with a straight woman.

We’ve always needed books like Burning Butch out in the world reminding us that it’s possible to fight back, to overcome, and to survive despite all odds.

Sorry Baby.

A lack of focus, the road not taken, fear of dating — the team tackles these topics and more!

For a split second, I thought about her racial calculations, not because I felt I needed to know, but because maybe, finally, someone might be like me. I knew our skin colors carried the weight of the same questions.

I “dated” two women I’d met online, and the relationships mostly unfolded on screens. In my other life, I dated men and tried to convince myself I liked it.

Last-minute handmade gift ideas, a mom who DOES NOT want you to come out to the rest of the family, holiday breakups, wintry music recommendations, and more!

Plus updates on: 4400, Hightown, Queens, The Sex Lives of College Girls, Legacies, Nancy Drew, and NCIS: Hawai’i!

This is a movie that aims to capture the perspective of children without forgetting the emotional intelligence so many of them carry.

New seasons of Star Trek Discovery, Dickinson and Gentefied; a super-queer comedy series about a gender-fluid Pakistani nanny/baritsa, a star-studded thriller about a girl’s soccer team and so much more to anticipate!

This is a book collection that’s used and loved, out of place and a little mismanaged — not for lack of care, but quite the opposite, due to an abundance of it. I wouldn’t have it any other way.

I attended the Chicago Pride Parade, where safer sex advocates tossed dental dams in shiny squares of plastic from a float. Thrilled, I swept them up, put them in my bag and promptly put them to use.

A super-sized round up including updates on All American, Charmed, the iCarly reboot has a bisexual storyline you’ll want to see, In the Dark, The Chi, Betty, and the best episode of Genera+ion yet.

When Marissa asks Alex if she ever misses her parents, Alex’s answer comes quickly: “Sometimes. But my friends are my family you know?”

Heather Hogan noticed that I had taken up permanent residence in the comments of “Boobs on Your Tube” every Friday, basically writing recaps of my own (I felt lost, Autostraddle was my port in the storm). Heather asked if I had ever considered writing about television as a career. She said, “We can pay you. Not as much as we’d like to, but we’ll find the money. Is that something you’d be into?”

I wrote back, “That is something that I would VERY MUCH be into! In fact, I hope it’s not too unprofessional to say that I would love it with all of my heart.”

I always wonder what words my ancestors had for someone like me. In embracing my genderfluid identity, I’ve found great comfort in the deep and wide of the Atlantic — the way the water connects me to kin, named or unknown.

I hid behind instruments, computers, Whitney’s voice, Prince’s guitar. I sat in front of my computer surrounded by cassettes, illegally downloading songs, awkwardly whispering “I love you more than I know how to explain and I’m scared so here’s a mixtape I made you.”

I’m sorry, I have a soft spot for loud insecure queers.