My mom raised me to know that listening deeply was just another thing that people could do, and comes from a tradition of tough ladies who survived by their sixth sense.

I’m curing an allergy attack with hot toddies, let’s recap this sucker!

My cat loves Autostraddle, an OITNB writer realizes she’s gay while working on the show, global governments are changing, the kidnapped Nigerian school girls may be found, and activists are as fierce as ever in fighting injustice.

Crafting spreads builds confidence and helps you to remember that you’re learning tarot your way, nobody else’s. Plus it means you can always come up with your own special approach to all those crazy-ass questions your friends bring you.

Fighting for rights, celebrating identities, raising money, listening to good music, and making powerful critiques–news as usual this week!

“When will white feminists take collective responsibility for educating themselves? When will they understand the power at play that sings in their skins? We don’t exist in a vacuum and women of colour don’t exist to hold their hands and explain in painful detail why their behaviour continues to hurt us. Intersectional feminist politics are not for white women to co-opt as their own.”

“Male, female, what’s the difference? Power is beautiful and I have the power.”

“A closer look at the Indian Supreme Court ruling demonstrates that it has probably more to do with the economic and social injustices meted out to trans-identified people over centuries – many of them forced out of schools and compelled to beg and/or engage in sex work for a living – than with a legal recognition of their gender per se.”

WELCOME TO THE FAMILY, YOU LEAFY BASTARD!

42% of Americans believe that gay people are born rather than made.

If you only read one mainstream comic starring a young Muslim Woman of Color, make sure it’s “Ms. Marvel!”

The very last Star Trek N00b recap!

I want to say things like “white people” without someone telling me we’re in a post-racial society and I wanna be surrounded by love that reminds me of my grandma’s house.

Women’s studies, as a whole, is a discipline grounded in words. These pieces are some of the words that ground the entire thing.

1. Communication. 2. Lots of communication. 3. So much communication. 4. No really, communicate. 5. Seriously just talk about things!!!!

The dilemma: ‘I’m anxious about starting my dream job!’

Spread the gay agenda with these colourful, easy-to-read books teaching love, acceptance, and science.

“I mean, it’s been one paragraph and I’ve already brought up Tegan & Sara so really, I shouldn’t have to write anymore than that, amirite?”

A ruling in Lebanon shows that progress for LGB and trans* communities can occur simultaneously instead of hierarchically.

We end up with a bunch of wealthy white dudes palling around with other wealthy white dudes, mostly telling stories about, you guessed it, wealthy white dudes.