“I would love to know how much money this show spends on snakes, drummers, and chalk.”

Maybe my mom was onto something. Maybe family really is everything, so long as you build it yourself.

If you have read Autostraddle even once, it’s likely that you’ve seen some of Marika’s brilliance in the comment section. She is one of our most frequent commenters, and she was kind enough to chat with me about science, hammocks, food, and family.

bell hooks is still right, Hillary Clinton becomes a thing of television history, and Aubrey Plaza looks great in those glasses.

How activists in Louisiana use everything from direct action to meetings with senators to try to pass laws that would protect queer and trans* students from bullying, queer and trans* employees from discrimination, and more. This is how your legal progress sausage is made.

My girlfriend took me on her work trip to Oahu, where I ate and beached and learned and museumed and only suffered one major physical injury!

“If anything, The Edmonton Queen reads as a triumphant fuck you in the face of death and losing people you love before their time.”

“If you’re reading this and are currently in love with a tiny place that hasn’t loved you back yet, I want you to know that this is okay.”

In which we follow six fresh-faced freshmen through their very first year of higher education.

This article contains lesbians kissing on TV. I promise.

This week on Glee, Kurt’s gold pants won and everybody else lost.

“I remember holding my breath during pivotal scenes in the movie. I wondered nervously if my brother saw then the direct parallels to his own sister’s life.”

Your real stories and tweets about when you knew you wanted to kiss other girls.

Shark Week! Also: Drop Dead Diva, True Blood, Deadly Waters, Intervention (by Tinkerbell), Nurse Jackie, The Colony, My Life on the D-List and Weeds! And our Hot Girl is our So You Think You Can Dance endorsement.

We are all intersex, we’re not here to make friends, Michael Jackson and his kids, people don’t know who the celeb-gays are, bisexuals kill people, gays come home, NARTH publishes fake study in fake journal, teachers say yes to marriage equality.

When you have one of those days when you look at the container of paper clips on your desk and think “Is this all that I am now?”, it’s time to take action.

The L Word’s almost over!! Two short-but-sweet weeks from now, we’ll all be forced to look at each others’ faces and speak words to each other about actual life instead of funneling all our feelings into fictional characters who change personalities every season and often disappear suddenly without warning/explanation.

Buy stuff. Buy stuff for your friends. Buy stuff for yourself. Buy stuff for us. Buy stuff.

Where to go if you’re queer in Portland, including recs from the owners and workers of LGBTQ+ local businesses!

“If I’m deliberately trying to queer anything, it’s the world, one reader at a time.”