The hit Amazon series is making steps to include more trans women and make it’s stories and characters more authentic.

Oh, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous womankind is! O brave new world, that has such characters in it!

Weed! Talent shows! More weed! A dildo!

New Toni Morrison, make a tiny zine, literary podcasts, writing difference and more.

Really, I’m not sure why we feel like we have to keep on amplifying this fight. A solid two-thirds of trans women are on both sides of this so-called divide. We’re a part of both communities.

Birth justice, the passing of Marcia Diehl, a comprehensive LGBTQ bill of rights, the violence against Martese Johnson, St. Patrick’s Day parades and more!

Lip Smackers, Black Brunch, TLC, your period, Taylor Swift, the cops don’t give a fuck, I’m sorry we don’t have a Haim tag, a review of “Girlhood,” a lack of nacho cheese, Julia Nunes being acoustic, Missy Elliot being perfect and so much more!

You could go outside in 80 layers or you could get inside this week’s open thread.

More fun than a sleigh full of wombats and wine.

“I struggled with my sexuality for a long time and I think it would have been so much easier if I’d seen someone like me on TV or in a movies or in books. Femslash fan fiction gave me that; the stories I read showed I wasn’t alone because other people had to think like me if they’re writing about this stuff.”

Chang has a lot of secrets. The main one is she’s a total badass!

“I can’t focus enough to read the cool indigneous women article but I want to read it but I cam’t I had too much drug candy”

These women changed feminism forever with their scholarship. Let’s vow to never forget their names.

On January 27th, activists from around the country will converge on Jacksonville and in their home cities to stand in solidarity with Alexander on the day of her release and bring visibility to women who have been targeted for their resilience and survival.

Brittany and Santana are going to the chapel, y’all. They’re gonna get married!

“Ruth lifts her head, smiles demure and sweet, her lips swollen with kissing. ‘Can’t miss a chance to minister to a heathen like you, Idgie.'”

The goal of the Autostraddle Comic and Sequential Art Awards is to recognize and celebrate positive representation for queer women and feminist issues in comics, webcomics and graphic novels.

Maybe girl-on-girl action is like the antenna that boosts magical Wi-Fi. (That was an alcohol-inspired thought.)

Marginalia, feminist shelfies, expanding the queer canon, 2014 in queer diversity in YA and more.

Can one lesbian journalist and one straight, white cis man form the right kind of odd couple to keynote the queer women in technology conference’s second annual installment?