Two years after writing that “a woman’s opinion is the miniskirt of the internet,” Laurie Penny is in no shortage of them in her latest mini-book.

Vintage comics, the Scholastic Reading Club, forgotten words, international bookstore porn, intersectionality and more.

Topics include Kimani Grey, stripping in a boomtown, grief, Reddit and the Boston Bombing, Rodney King, “Sex and the City,” Mary Gaitskill, sexism in the Texas legislature, travel guides and more!

Ali’s Team Pick: The content is very much Clue + Soap Opera, but the style recalls lesbian pulp + the final season of the L Word. I’m only on the first episode, but I’m already wondering who killed Jenny (so to speak).

Topics include hate crimes, Christian Rock, Marissa Mayer, the evolution of delusions, disability, the Voting Rights Act, Media Takeout, learning how to live and MOAR!

There is a time and a place for great literature. This isn’t it.

An Autostraddle Interview with Tania De Rozario, queer artist, writer and activist. Read more about her views on censorship, activism and Jeanette Winterson in this interview.

“Being an activist leader brought dozens of women to my bed,” Córdova recalls. “Power seemed to attract people, and my political life put me at the center of the action.”

Maybe my mom was onto something. Maybe family really is everything, so long as you build it yourself.

“What if you’d like to let your loyalties walk some middle tightrope, where you can keep the good stuff about this book you loved while also turning your back on its creator? What’s the best way to hate the player and love the Game?”

The 50 most essential queer books coming this fall.

Topics include Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), web developers, poetry and death, meth, psychic Sylvia Browne, Coyote Ugly, Wikipedia, The Whole Earth Catalog and more!

This year’s Lambda Award winners were announced yesterday evening.

Topics include binge-watching TV, wikipedia, Mary Kay, why The Great Gatsby sucks, Freedomland!, ANTM, Hunter S. Thompson, oversharing, lesbian nightlife romances and more!

“Every thing that grows, grows differently. Each of us grow in our own way.”

What do the leading names in science fiction tell us about the future of gender?

This week in lit links: book-inspired ice cream, why “women’s stories” aren’t the same as stories about women’s lives, writing gay YA in Russia and more.

This edition is FULL OF TREASURES. Ali and I read two books and asked ten(ish) questions to poet, writer, and die-hard dyke Ali Liebegott for you. Also, many dog photos!

Queer comics, a zine pop-up shop, new books to read, Judy Blume and more.

Topics include New York’s fancy gentleman’s clubs, Thelma & Louise, porn in San Francisco, shitty jobs, domestic violence, oxycontin abuse, scientology, band names and so much more!