No new apps, intense #lifehacks or complicated productivity systems here — just solid habits to get into for an ass-kicking 2015.

So you’ve recently come out to your family, and it’s the first time you’ve been to holigay dinner since it happened. Autostraddle is here to help you through it.

” I, it turns out, am even more kinky than I had previously imagined, and you are less so, and so and thus.”

This week, your good gay news comes with a heaping side of dogs in wigs and a round of interviews and video series, on the house.

Can we talk about Season 2 of The Fosters? Because I feel like we need to talk about it.

They’re from all over the globe kickin’ ass and takin’ names one record at a time. Hear them. See them. Support them!

“After a while though we stopped thinking we were just reading this film with a gay lens (like I can’t help but do with Kiki’s Delivery Service) and actually looked it up online — where all the facts come from — and there it was. Theo is a lesbian.”

“You can take makeup off or pile it on, and it can mean so much to you and how you see yourself. That’s powerful. That’s very potent. That’s witchwork.”

It’s that time of year again. The time of year when we get a bunch of people at A-Camp to go in on a few bottles of whiskey and we all taste them together and talk about how great whiskey is. And, as with every tasting we do, we encourage you to follow along at home!

Unknown female beat poets, lesbian historical fiction, the problem with essays, reading more, the answer to the question “how much gay sex should a novel have?” and more.

This week on Glee, “Funny Girl” opened and Santana came back!

Did you know that this week is the week where I ate multiple meals via finger foods? Here’s the stories we missed while I was opening another box of crackers.

It took a village to ruin Russia’s stance on gay people, and it’ll take one to save feminism.

Adventures in non-normative handedness.

Bo comes home, Tamsin grows up and Lauren and Betty McRae have the most awkward post-sex process ever.

“Tom and I in Amsterdam, cuz yeah… that’d be dangerous and hilarous. Or Jamie and I in Seoul, Korean food #FTW. Lastly Jenny and I in Brazil, for the beautiful women.”

In which Emily spends some quality time in bed with Alison and we return to Aria’s love shack only to discover shocking news about Hanna’s past hookups.

I couldn’t find a drink called “The Power Suit” and I kind of want to invent that now?

This week on NSFW Sunday: embracing sexual pleasure, embracing the fact that sex is pretty funny sometimes, hot correct grammar and more.

A celebration of all we’ve accomplished in 2013.