Vanessa’s Team Pick: Wanna see behind-the-scene footage from some of Buffy’s epic fight scenes? Yeah, I thought so.

“Not only do I have to deal with the crippling dysphoria that comes from having a body that I often don’t even recognize as my own, I also have to deal with the cultural misogyny that tells me that a woman can’t be as big and fat as I am and still be desirable.”

“If you do feel the need to ask if someone is transgender or not, first ask yourself why. Why is it your business? Why do you need to know? And will it change anything you think about this person?”

A lovely weather technology link round up to keep you entertained if you’re snowed in, or even if you’re not.

Lambda Literary Award Finalists, Lean In, Sister Spit, performance-enhancing drugs for writing, outsider lit for girls, bookish cures and so much more!

Welcome to “I Just Now Saw,” a new column in which I attempt to conduct conversations about television shows you watched ten years ago and I just now saw for the first time. First up: BUFFY!

105 more humans for you to have awkward crushes on.

Whitney’s Team Pick: Thought you needed more Comic Sans in your life? No? Well, here’s some anyway.

In news from Australia, the City of Parramatta council has deemed a banner promoting Twenty10’s support services for LGBT youth to be “offensive.” What the hell.

“Put in the effort, put yourself out there and you will be rewarded with a really, really good time!”

Starring IKEA Monkey as Margot Tenenbaum.

This week on Glee, everybody came back to Ohio for brunch at The Cracker Barrel and sang Stevie Wonder songs.

Billboard art and famous food.

DC’s new comic series, ‘Red Hood and the Outlaws,’ reboots a beloved female character as a one-dimensional buxom sex doll. What this means for gender in comics and the girls who looked up to her (including me).

Maybe you’re like me and you wait until the last minute to do things because having stress headaches is fun and sleep is for the weak.

These are desperate times – and sometimes it all gets so overwhelming that we need something, someone, to remind us that there is light. That is Jessica Halem.

This week in books: It’s NaNoWriMo! Also, East Coast booksellers deal with Hurricane Sandy, comic books and gay characters, copyright, Random Penguin House, Gore Vidal and what we’re reading.

In our last recamp, we party at the pool, dance all night, have feelings, display talent, and wish it never had to end.

Despite its tongue-in-cheek name, Poetry is Dead Magazine’s Queer Issue is pleasant evidence to the contrary.

It’s 1956 and the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein are having their annual quiche breakfast. “No men. No meat. Just manners.”