It’s time to apply for and/or donate to camperships for A-Camp 6.0! And for inspiration, read about the experiences of campership recipients at A-Camp 5.0.

Ambient contact, having sex for the first time, smut, sideboob and more.

Litchfield, O Litchfield! How hast thee fared? Didst thou miss me? Much as I have learned over time to not only tolerate Piper but also genuinely enjoy what she brings to the show, a Piperless Litchfield is somehow the best Litchfield yet.

“He didn’t feel any pain. He died instantly.” That was how she told me that my father was dead. I was 14.

“I began to step back. Not because of low confidence, or a fear of public speaking, or an inferiority complex — all of them were about my story, and my skin, and my inability to find a way to belong in spaces for people of color without first justifying and laboriously explaining both.”

I want to say things like “white people” without someone telling me we’re in a post-racial society and I wanna be surrounded by love that reminds me of my grandma’s house.

Women’s studies. What the f*ck is that? And how the f*ck did it get that way? Let’s find out!

“Much has been speculated regarding the sexuality of Ms Stewart, which has in some cases has taken on an air of self-evident truth.”

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court upheld a Michigan state ban on the use of race as a factor in admissions to state universities, allowing voters to decide the matter on a state-by-state level.

Cats with jobs, dinosaur facts and escapes from bad dates. It was a big week.

Prisons in both Turkey and the United States separate LGBT individuals from the general population, but this form of segregation hardly solves the issue of violence in prison facilities. In fact, it may further endanger LGBT prisoners.

“She’s not the protagonist in this one but she does kiss a girl and is very self-righteous which I think does it for a lot of people.”

The attack of this woman just nine days after she made her girlfriend her wife in the eyes of the law brings into sharp relief the problem with the LGBT movement focusing so intensely on marriage.

“Unlike the mean girls in other movies who serve as the core of their clique, Lisa and Cokie are on the outskirts looking in. I related to Sokoloff’s characters because they were just like me, dying to be a part of a group that would never accept her.”

It’s Bra Week on Autostraddle! Read all about it and kick off the celebrations with a mega-gallery of grrrls and bois in a variety of over-the-shoulder-boulder-holders and otherwise-inclined brasseries.

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Brandon “Enigma Face” Foster

Zoie Palmer gave a shout-out to her long-rumored ladyfriend, Alex Lalonde, at The 2014 Canadian Screen Awards and the gay internet is RUNNING WITH IT.

The only way I’d ever be interested in watching any of these stupid shows would be if their female characters were upgraded from subplots to the main event. Actually that would be AWESOME.