“I think you can put so many people of color on TV shows, but until there are more people of color who are making those decisions to put those actors and actresses in those roles, we’re not quite at that point yet. We need more Shonda Rhimes in our lives.”

Lesbian cartoonist and graphic novelist Alison Bechdel was named one of 21 MacArthur geniuses for 2014.

“Met some friends for drinks after work. Too tipsy and sleepy to think about sex or masturbating tonight. Will rectify the masturbation-less week over the weekend. Or at least take another one of those magical sexy baths.”

Jude and Connor come out, and Monty finally stops keeping her lips to herself.

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The Soska sisters, a pair of female directors were announced to be helming a brand-new “Painkiller Jane” movie, based on the comic book about a bisexual superpowered cop with healing abilities.

A new survey shows that adult women are one of the largest demographics when it comes to who plays video games.

“I’m just imagining Alex on a rock wall and Rachel snuggling a cat or something.”

The shiniest things you need to know to enhance your (already excellent) crushing on Lucy Lawless.

Non-monosexual books to read, fall books to read, non-fiction gender equality, censorship and more.

For 24 hours, watch Maki’s video only here on Autostraddle dot com as part of Patchwork, a series exploring trans lives in Britain.

Halloween reading, which grammar mistakes are not mistakes, an app for discovering literature by people of color, reading women’s writing and more.

Which isn’t a big deal, but also totally is.

Need-to-know, queer-ish highlights from the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con. Because nerds.

“Brainchild” by Suzanne Geary is a wonderful webcomic where the art is gorgeous, the women are queer and the world is full of demons and brothers back from the dead.

“It’s so important to do what makes you feel centered and strong again as a QTPOC trying to deal with this country right now. It would have taken Herculean levels of self-care to come close to what one Speakeasy Google Hangout did for me last night.”

Even though we’re dealing with robots, dragons and multiple dimensions, Decrypting Rita is fundamentally about queer nerds.

A Cinderella story, with less bibbidi bobbidi and a lot more astronomy.

Fox’s biggest hope just might live up to the hype, as long as it lets its queer women of color shine.

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