Did you make it to the podium in this week’s commenting medal ceremony?

We wanted to sit down and share stories with you around this virtual campfire to somehow express one little piece of what it means to be queer and a person of color in this crazy, crazy world.

This week’s comment awards were brought to you by the letter “I” for “Incredible.” Which is what Community Managerette Carrie is.

That title may be awful, but these new shows aren’t!

Stick it to the man and be your own boss! These are the resources and inspiration I use most often for designing and freelance.

Mittsy’s new running mate is “thrilling,” “intellectual,” “a firebrand,” and also a regressionist who wants to take America back to 1932.

What do you do when you love people who live far away? You break out your best stationery and write a friendship into existence, obviously.

Jess chats with the couple about camp, the reality TV experience, the upcoming election, finding an anonymous sperm donor, Smash, Oprah, their Real L Word comrades and — in an Autostraddle exclusive — the sex of their baby, due in October!

In which the audience applauded upholding traditional family and booed the elimination of Obamacare, and Mitt Romney remained an idiot.

“We sat reading on the rooftop for hours, only stopping when the sound of a train drowned out our voices.”

Facebook has locked me out of my account for being a part of a peaceful, compliant, and legal protest in Washington, DC.

Have I told you lately that I love you? All of you? Because I do.

Not into all the transphobia that radfems have to offer? Enter the Radfem Scorpion!

Innkeepers are using their title of Boss to freely discriminate against patrons and spew hate on religious grounds. Luckily brave individuals are calling them out and you can too.

Remember that webseries Brittani created and Sarah Croce directed? It’s back. Words With Girls Episode 2 now available for your face with some surprise Hannah Hart action.

“This project is about teenage girls and young women at a transitional time of their lives, alone in the privacy of their own personal space and surroundings: their bedroom, a womb within the outside world.”

It’s been a rainy, windy week, but the promise of the Hot 100 looming on the horizon is enough to warm things up.

Marshmallows, campfires, single-ply biodegradable toilet paper and songs.

This week, rappers came out against homophobia, laws were passed that made us better off around the world, and a baby koala lived. I said “baby koala.”

Alan Chambers, president of Exodus International and married to Leslie Chambers with two adopted children, now says his group will no longer operate around claims of being able to “cure” anyone.