“We support a strike that calls for recognition of women’s value and the necessity of the many forms of their labor; we also support all those who are already struggling economically and otherwise, who are deeply impacted by the administration and the systems we’re protesting, and who because of that can’t afford to risk financial instability or job loss for themselves and their families.”

What you can do to help rescind the Muslim Ban right now.

Your guide to LGBT History Month events that don’t suck.

“The moon is my muse and ruler. I love her many faces. I love being her daughter, her sister, her boyfriend, her girlfriend, her theyfriend, her lover, her handmaiden, her houseboy — you name it and I’ve dreamed such things.”

Come for the smooching ladies; stay for the women kicking ass.

If there is anyone in your life currently in need of a truly empowering and also on-brand gift which to utilize to further the progress of our nation or look woke AF, it’s the feminist you know and love.

Going to the Women’s March on Washington or a solidarity event near you? I have some tips!

“Why is a hug or a kiss seen as so much more loving than spending the time to give comments on a paper full of cherished ideas? Than sharing a drink to celebrate a quarter’s hard work? Than creating something together?”

Who needs to call: people who live in Utah, Iowa, Idaho, Kansas, Wyoming, Texas, South Dakota, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Louisiana.

You don’t have to hide under your pillows or hide from your partners this month, but expect a few potholes in the otherwise smooth pavement of your relational rapport.

Planning on spending a lot of time on the couch? Here are 31 shows that would be good even without lesbian, bisexual and otherwise-identified queer female characters but luckily, they do!

We get a lot of advice questions in the A+ box, which then turn up in “Some Answers To Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us” — but we’re changing it up! Now, some of the longer advice questions will show up in their very own A+ post. This is the first one, come inside!

Who needs to call: people who live in Tennessee, Wyoming, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Louisiana, Indiana, Utah, Kansas and Alaska. Who needs to act? Everyone who knows anyone who lives in these states.

Here’s 16 women or groups of women who gave me and you and everyone we know some life in this, the darkest of years.

“In the midst of all this grief and uncertainty, we must rise up and practice pride every day.”

A roundtable with disabled advocates, leaders, and protesters on how they came to activism, building an inclusive movement, and resources you should know about.

Topics include press freedom in the age of Trump, layoffs and restructuring at the Medium network and Fusion, The Establishment’s new membership program, email follow-ups that’ll get you in trouble, The Washington Post’s new splashy app for millennial women, and pitches we’re currently looking for!

The CIA has released a report saying that Russia attempted to influence the US election in Trump’s favor — here’s what senators and the electoral college are doing in response.

Two episodes in a row of Maia and Amy canoodling in bed, heeeeeeey!

We thrive on these everyday tiny moments where we both get to be reminded of our agreed-upon power differential.