My favorite thing about this upcoming American holiday is when people who’d originally said they weren’t going to make [X Traditional Food Item] decide, at the eleventh hour, to 100% totally make that thing. It’s the giving in! The reckoning! Raw human honesty distilled into one beautiful cheese ball! It’s beautiful.

Stay hydrated out there and remember: it’s never too late to be honest with yourself about what you want and need!

Queer as in F*ck You

+ Support Abeni’s surgery fundraiser! Everyone who wants boobs should have boobs. That’s the future liberals want. Read Abeni’s work on Autostraddle right here!

+ I’m a Trans Teenager in Northern Ireland, Where Bigotry Is Taught in School.

+ EU Fails to Identify and Protect LGBTQ Asylum Seekers.

+ How Two Reverends Are Queering the Modern Day Church.

+ Turkish Capital Bans All LGBT Screenings, Exhibitions, and Events Over Public Sensitivities. Ban straight people.

+ Showtime’s ‘The L Word’ Revival Finds Its Showrunner.

+ Protest, Marriage Equality, and the Future of Activism.

+ Seven Trans Women Share the First Makeup Product They Wore.

Welcome to the Hellmouth

+ ‘Christian Values’ Leader Helped Cover Up Alleged Assault Committed by Closeted Anti-Gay Lawmaker. A doozy!

+ I Spent My 20s As an Obama Speechwriter. Here’s What He Taught Me About Growing Up. Related:

Doll Parts

+ NYT White House Correspondent Glenn Thrush’s History of Bad Judgment Around Young Women Journalists.

+ Woman Targeted By Sheriff For ‘Fuck Trump’ Decal Says Fuck That Guy, Too. Beautiful.

+ Nigerian Bobsled Women Qualify for Winter Olympics.

+ Why We Need to Talk About Violence Against Women When We Talk About Cervical Cancer Prevention.

+ Scandal Paved the Way for Imperfect Black Female Protagonists.

Keep Up

+ Jeffrey Tambor is Leaving Transparent.

Saw This, Thought of You

+ An Unabashed Appreciation of Smitten Kitchen. Yes.

+ How Culinary Propaganda from a Women’s Magazine Made Thanksgiving a Thing.

+ So You’ve Sexually Harassed Or Abused Someone: What Now?

+ The Motherboard Guide to Not Getting Hacked.

+ Airbnb Is Making Travel More Accessible.

And Finally

Meet Doug Jones, One Of The Biggest Movie Stars You’ve Probably Never Seen. Hi IT’S THIS DUDE: