LGBTQ rights groups are joining activists, allies and former performers in opposing Michfest’s trans-female-exclusionary intention, and if Michfest wants to attract new fans, it needs to listen up.

Zadie Smith, superlatives, reader’s block, Samantha Irby, public domain reviews, queer book fairs and more.

A library in a taxi, imaginary meals, must-read books by trans women and by or about queer Canadians, surpassing diversity checkboxes and more.

With new books by Roxane Gay, Hannah Hart, Sarah Waters, Radclyffe and more, there are lots of things to read and talk about.

Welcome to the first ever Autostraddle Insider, one of many perks available to Autostraddle Plus members!

Making love means never having to say you’re sorry.

North Carolina is fighting the criminalization of same-sex marriage, activist Cecily MacMillan is fighting for justice, and Spider-Man is fighting to teach kids about safe sex.

Over 3,000 of y’all let us know who you are and what you want, so now it’s our turn to tell you who you are and what you want. With infographics!

I spoke with Janet Mock, Imogen Binnie, Fallon Fox, Bailey Jay, Geena Rocero, Angelica Ross, Sarah McBride and more women from the Trans 100 to find out how to best support the women on this list and trans women in general.

“We all, collectively, need to employ the people who report on issues important to us. And whether we like it or not, whether we relate to the general populace in the area where we live or not, those things happening in our most local sectors effect our lives immensely — even more immensely, usually, than national or international issues and news stories.”

With austerity here to stay and far-right parties on the rise, it is time now more than ever to recognise that queer liberation cannot be disentangled from economic justice.

“I wore my A-Camp staff shirt to the grocery store in Berkeley and TWO people stopped me to ask me how this year’s Summer Camp went.” Meet Ivy, our last Calendar Girl of the year!

It’s time to drop everything and take the Autostraddle Reader Survey! We love this time of year.

“15. NOT QUEER ENOUGH”

“I find it comforting to know that the work I make will endure however fragile my existence may sometimes feel.” Get ready to fall in love with Lynn, Miss November!

This week on NSFW Sunday: your brain’s sexual response, talking about sexual fantasies, Star Wars vibrators and more.

PinkNews, an LGBT news outlet in the UK, honoured Baroness Stowell, an anti-trans defender of the “spousal veto,” as Politician of the Year. They now face criticism for how the judging panel was put together.

“Melaine Randall has said that “the day we start defining feminism, it has lost its vitality.” I’d parry with “the day we start defining feminism, we get an enormous headache and end up subjecting readers to like 1500 words of confusion, because it is impossible.”

Topics include a face transplant, Janelle Monae, business school, Jodie Foster, mattresses, the men who brought 9/11 home, letters to the editor, last meals, writing advice from Rick Bass and moar!

Well this is your very own Rachel Fucking Walker without a shirt. Why are you still reading the excerpt?