So much news today! The Democrats’ sit-in in the House over gun legislation, SCOTUS rulings on affirmative action, the status of many undocumented people in the US, the Dollar General case, as well as rulings related to Freddie Gray’s death and trans kids using bathrooms at school, and more.

Give your friends and family a gift that will make a difference in the lives of people most likely to be affected by a Trump-Pence administration by supporting a worthy nonprofit or activist organization in their name.

Looking at protests, Trump’s potential transition team, the National Organization for Marriage gearing up against LGBT rights, and more.

In honor of all the other crips I saw in the streets on the Women’s March on Washington, of every disabled woman who’s had it with lip service and wants to make sure this movement belongs to all of us, here are ten more who are already preparing the way.

You can’t have a ripped-from-the-headlines legal show without a Milo Yiannopoulos episode.

Southwest of Salem tells the story of four Latina lesbians who were found guilty of a crime they didn’t commit and how the legal and criminal justice systems failed them as queer women of color. Watch it tonight on Investigation Discovery at 8 pm EST.

It’s a lesbian movie miracle.

With just a few days into the new year, lawmakers in Alabama, Missouri, South Carolina, Virginia, Texas and Washington have introduced new bathroom bills they’re calling “privacy acts” and ensuring we have a long year of battles ahead of us.

Official rankings of five influential boxed wines from a Boxed Wine and Artisan Women-Made Cheese Tasting I conducted at a recent Autostraddle event.

A new study shows women who seek an abortion are pretty certain they want to go through with it, Michelle Obama’s latest speech is fantastic, women protest outside Trump Tower, the ACLU finds social media companies are selling user data to a company used by cops and more news.

This election shook me to my core. That’s undeniable. I am still grieving and I don’t know that I ever won’t be. I am so fucking angry and I don’t know that I ever won’t be. But I refuse to be scared, or cowed, or defeated.

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Fifth Harmony member Lauren Jauregui is a proud bisexual Cuban-American, and also has some very choice words for Donald Trump voters so LISTEN UP.

Green party presidential candidate Jill Stein isn’t interested in helping Hillary Clinton, but wants fair elections — and a recount in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan.

The Escalation has officially begun. These are your super-secret marching orders.

“Part of why I’m coing out is because there’s so much hate and fear in and around the LGBT community right now and it’s important for us not to halt progress out of fear.”

Your April community gallery is here! With more llamas than you’d think.

This is what fandom dreams are made of.

I don’t know how to be hopeful right now, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop writing or working or fighting, and I know everyone at Autostraddle stands firmly with me.

We discuss funny reviews of menstrual cups, processing election feelings, gender neutral terms your niece or nephew can call you, our Myers-Briggs personality types and more!