Aside from launching skilled attacks at her opponents, she was always ready to pivot back to a story about a Nevadan or highlight the specific plight of black and brown people. I think she made her case that if you want a candidate who can go toe-to-toe with an “arrogant billionaire,” she’s ready.

One patient in the study “Observation of Trends in Manic-Depressive Psychosis” by O. Spurgeon English recounted that living with bipolar disorder “is like opening all my pores on a cold day and subjecting myself to catastrophe.”
I too have felt like a catastrophe of a person, a catastrophe of a star, a catastrophe of emotions.

Who do the LGBTQ+ women and non-binary people who took our Politics Survey plan on voting for in the Democratic Primary?

The Autostraddle TV Team takes on Twitter’s “Five TV Shows to Get to Know Me” meme. Yes, our relationships with television are perfectly fine and healthy THANKS.

You can’t win in a world not meant for you, so I’m offering up the In Another World Issue as my attempt at creating some other option. We’re presenting you with the ways that bright, thoughtful, ferocious people are creating their own space. Worlds within and outside of this slippery one, full of answers and questions and buoyant hope tunnels.

Plus updates on Nancy Drew, All American, Arrow, and The Bold Type!

Who loves infographics??? WE DO!!

Brandi Carlile and Demi Lovato at the Grammys, Angelica Ross is the new face of Louis Vuitton, remembering Gigi Bryant, and more news to kick off the week.

The entire TV Team weighs in on the sex scenes and potential/actual relationships that warmed our hearts and thighs during Season One of “The L Word: Generation Q.”

“It’s not a fair comparison because Are You The One? was entirely queer and went on all summer and sooo many people I know were watching. However, I will say no one on AYTO was as crushable as Sammie.”

This week on Generation Q, we get a special surprise blast from the past, young queer love, thruple MAYHEM and a very sloppy bro night as the town recovers from Bette Porter’s latest brush with scandal.

Band t-shirts are a way of both presenting and defining acceptable enthusiasms, and the baseline for what kind of enthusiasm is permitted is always socially established by straight men.

REI invited Abeni, Vanessa, and Heather to choose one of the zillion classes they offer and sent them some apparel from the extended sizes line to test drive. Afterward they got together to talk about the gear, the outdoor sessions, extended sizing in general, and what it’s been like to work with REI at Autostraddle over the past year.

Our TV critics smashed their heads together to deliver our picks for the years’ 25 best shows with queer, lesbian, bisexual and trans women characters as well as each of our individual top 15s. So much TV you’ve gotta see in here!

The fact is most of the films about us — and especially the films by us — do not get the attention they deserve. But nobody is better equipped to tell our stories than we are.

The movie pays homage to its predecessors while still charting its own course.

Plus updates on Nancy Drew and HTGAWM!

“Lol yes just got off work and ready for dyke shit”

Plus: Angelica Ross keeps surprising us on American Horror Story, Tess Pearson is still the world’s best tween (even if her anxiety won’t let her know it) on This Is Us.

It’s fall, so #feelingsfall continues — Claud has some baby gay angst anthems, Heather Mae has all the feelings if you want to cry, and Big Thief gets raw and vulnerable.