We’re rebuilding our music team and want to hear from music lovers who want to write for Autostraddle!

Mandi is the creator of Queerituality.com, a project we told you about a few months ago. She shared the inspiration behind that project, more about her own spiritual journey and how it intersects with her queer identity, and her favorite writers, books, and news sources.

For my birthday, I wanna give gifts to other humans: specifically, Team Autostraddle. If you donate, you’ll be giving me the best birthday ever, and I’m willing to bake you cookies or even raffle off an A-Camp campership and more!

July is smokin’ hot with Drea and her musical poetry and haikus! You won’t know if you want to be her or be with her, you know? Luckily there’s an questionnaire at the end.

“I came out to bosses and people I had just met and guys who hit on me and former boyfriends and doctors and professors and relatives and Facebook and even the grocery store cashiers. I wanted to assert myself, my identity.”

We’re hiring Contributing Editors and a new Associate Editor! It’s your big chance to join the weirdest band of weirdos in the history of the queer web!

We need new comment moderators/community managerettes!

“I had shared a moment with myself that was loving and forgiving, and I found myself believing that I was enough.” We’re so excited to introduce you to Parneet! Lots of love here.

We’re looking for writing from queer-identified trans* women!

Let’s talk frozen femmes, hot peppers and holigay profile pics!

Chloe’s beauty is beyond compare, with flaming locks of auburn hair, with ivory skin and eyes of dark coffee. And Intern Grace? Well, her smile is like a breath of spring, her voice is soft like summer rain and no one can compete with her, yipee!

Halloween memories, calendar girls and your clever words.

Over 3,000 of y’all let us know who you are and what you want, so now it’s our turn to tell you who you are and what you want. With infographics!

Do you have tickets to the gun show? Let’s wrap up this year in a neat little bow with December’s calendar girl, Christina!

Did you watch the second Presidential debate? Why doesn’t anyone give ME binders full of women?

And you thought November was nothing but cold and rain? Meet Alana and Julie!

This post aims to answer pressing questions such as, “now that the fundraising campaign is over, how long ’til we get to see the new website?” and “when is my fundraising t-shirt gonna be here???”

27. Buy 3 different kinds of peanut butter, just in case

Who needs fall foliage and pumpkin spice lattes when you’ve got KP and Michelle? Happy October!

We just wanted to say a few things before taking your money and running off to a tropical island to do some offshore trading and margarita-drinking with the ladies.