“Smashing the patriarchy and organizing for a rape crisis center on our college campus while also taking a gender studies class. Also I was a data point in her thesis. It was about gender neutral housing.”

“isn’t anyone going to speak out against rachel for saying all men should be castrated and set on fire ???????”

“I’m ready to have an open heart and open mind and be ready to participate and show up for my community.”

“Do you think Putin is upset that we did not include “Vladimir” in this list? It is a pretty lesbian name.”

A-Camp Wisconsin, firebugs, depression that is rooted to a place, and the correct feelings to have after your partner cheats on you with a dude. It’s A+ Inbox LIVE and it’s ready for you!!

“Drink with nerds and feel good about people calling you mom.”

Whether you’re getting back into gaming after a long time away or starting for the first time, these stories are for you!

“I hope you gave birth to a swan, invented a new way to eat pineapples, started recycling or used a cucumber as a dildo after your dog ate your dildo. I hope only good things for you.”

Grieving a friend lost to suicide in childhood, the effects of harmful compulsory masculinity, and looking around at a life that could just barely have been imagined then.

How do real-life communities based off of online ones maintain safe and inclusive spaces? Let’s talk about it!

On the very last episode ever of “Faking It,” everybody attends a very weird New Year’s Eve party.

Welcome to Straddler Nation, a brand-spankin’-new series in which two rockstar meet-up group captains talk to folks building Autostraddle communities IRL around the world. For their first installment, they talked to some folks who started or are taking the reigns over their local groups.

Black queer women are magical. We’re innovators of style, technology, science, art, music, and all other sorts of badassery. This year for Black History Month, we’ve included another 50 Black trans and queer women that you absolutely must know about.

A Q&A with Julia Nunes and behind-the-scenes photos from her new “Make Out” video.

It would be like Rachel’s “Helping you Help Yourself,” but with more of a Stef vibe and maybe just a series of gifs or images with captions that get right to the heart of the matter. Like “DON’T GO TO WORK LATE, ASSHOLE.”

“As an adult, when I was presented with the option of creating my own Christmas traditions with my partner, my instinct was to completely ignore the holiday altogether… I also knew that I didn’t want to partake in the mad shopping frenzy that the holiday season had become famous for. So I started racking my brain for fun, easy DIYs that I could create in bulk for Christmas gifts.”

The names of the main characters, Nic and Battle, were gender neutral enough that I projected heterosexuality onto them, not yet knowing that gay YA lit was something even there to be looked for.

“A-Camp was sort of a turning point for me. We were talking about building a year-round Autostraddle community and it was decided that I’d be the coffee roaster. I was like, ‘Well, guess I better get good at this coffee roasting thing.’ You can’t have mediocre coffee in a queer commune. I started actually writing a business plan the next weekend.”

After eleventy hundred years of being pregnant, Daya finally has her baby.

“Even when we would get really drunk and make out to Ke$ha in front of hundreds of people in our own house, it was never a romantic thing.”