Hello, my beloved flowers and shrubs! Are you having a hard week? I am having a hard week. Let’s all do something in the next few days to celebrate ourselves! Even if it’s just like…turning off all the lights, lighting a candle, and whispering, “I celebrate myself.” I know it sounds silly, but you are so deliciously perfect and singularly amazing and your body and your brain deserve a little of the kindness that I know you’ve been showing to others on a regular basis! This is your homework! I love you! Go be amazing!

Also I want to re-pot a peace lily this weekend, does anyone have any tips on how not to kill it? Thanks, babes.

This week, Grease Bats reminded every single one of us that “keeping things casual” entails more than just saying the word “casual” over and over and over again.

Kayla dove straight in to The Bold Type’s season 3 big gay heartbreak! Ow!

Kayla also did…this.

This was so lovely, from Samantha: How I Let Queer Literature Come Out to my Middle School Students for Me.

This is a meditation practice disguised as a comic. Please believe me when I tell you that you need it in your life.

Riese is still doing the dirty work, breaking down the data from the Survey of Lesbian Stereotypes, and oh look! We’re hippies! I personally spent a majority of the ten years I lived in Santa Cruz wearing a purple woven grocery bag printed with an eggplant as a purse, so I am…not surprised. (People outside of Santa Cruz had a really hard time understanding my fashion choices at the time, I must say.)

Crushes: they’re real! They’re lovely and scary and delicious and awful, all in one big shiny package. Thank goodness for Vanessa, who wants to help you celebrate your feelings and manage your expectations!

Big things happened in The Magicians season finale, and Valerie Anne’s here to help you make sense of them.

And then there were your comments!

On 5 Unofficial Lesbian Relationship Milestones:

The True Love Lube Award to Caitlin:

buying a two pack of coconut oil to make vegan gingerbread for her, then never hanging out again so you’re left with 1.8 containers of coconut oil that you will likely never use because butter

On The 18 Best Lesbian Knifeplay Scenes in TV History:

The 10/10 Clones Agree Award to kourei, Michelle and amidola:

I feel like Helena doing anything on Orphan Black belongs on this list

On Pop Culture Fix: Kristen Stewart’s Charlie’s Angels Are Here, Surely One Is Queer:

The Root^3 Award to Holly:

New Charlie’s Angels sounds like it might actually be good??? But personally, it will never be gayer than when bitty me became obsessed with a fairly subpar trilogy of films because of Lucy Liu.

On No Filter: Maybe Rachel Maddow Will Go Fishing With Melissa Etheridge!

The Fisting Trip Award to Carmen L:

I’m at work reading autostraddle in secret and I read fishing as fisting and legit fell out of my desk chair and now I’m bruised and embarrassed my coworkers heard me squeal and fall. Worth it.

And the America Runs on Dinkin Award to Blackmar and AnnieStinkle:

Radar called Kristen Stewart’s girlfriend Sara Dunkin. It’s Dinkin, you donks!

On How I Let Queer Literature Come Out to my Middle School Students for Me:

The Librarians Award to Ray:

Queer books are super powerful, and queer teachers even more so. I wish I had a queer teacher in middle or high school, your students are lucky and you are awesome.

On Look At These Butch Heroes:

The Heroes We Deserve Award to leep:

extremely imagining this as a picture book

And the Gentleperson Award to lex:

So sweet, cute, andddd I initially miss-read the first one as like “the butch who smiles at you and literally hold the door open for you

And on Also.Also.Also: Tegan and Sara are Ready to Take You Back to High School:

The Who Run The World Award to Mathilde:

Michelle Obama (profiled by Beyoncé)

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