“Faking It” forever! Or for ten more episodes, anyway!

Quotes from a new Rolling Stone cover story just make explicit the themes she’s been shredding about for years.

The Miseducation of Cameron Post’s removal from a summer reading list, literary books coming out this fall, trigger warnings, marginalizing women’s writing and more.

This week on “Faking It,” Amy woke up in bed with Liam, Tommy spills Lauren’s secret, and Karma waterboards Amy’s heart! Welcome back!

Shit is going down in the bathroom, y’all.

Welcome to the first ever Autostraddle Insider, one of many perks available to Autostraddle Plus members!

We’re still mad about Hobby Lobby, but this is still an important political moment for LGBT elected officials, students, and more.

Carmen Carrera, a transgender model and activist is set to star in a brand new docuseries about a group of young trans women living in Chicago. The series, produced by Tyra Banks, will debut its eight hour-long episode run on VH1 in late 2014 or early 2015

“Start-up culture is odd. There’s a lot that I struggle with — it’s not something particularly designed for anyone who isn’t already privileged. It’s hard to go into it without a safety net. There’s a certain element of romanticizing struggle that is hard to internalize as a woman, a queer woman, and/or a woman of color. “

“You can take makeup off or pile it on, and it can mean so much to you and how you see yourself. That’s powerful. That’s very potent. That’s witchwork.”

ABC, NBC, and FOX have released their upfronts for this fall’s new shows and I have a lot of feelings.

The issue of immigrant children being detained in immigrant detention centers is not exactly a new story. But this past week, an influx of children from Central America who were detained while trying to cross into the U.S. has drawn new attention to the extreme and inhuman treatment undocumented immigrants face from U.S. Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Wisconsin’s Janesville School District issued an apology for showing a pro-marriage-equality video without also showing an anti-equality rebuttal. When it comes to educating kids, though, that kind of “fairness” doesn’t help anyone.

From packing to arrivals and back home again, we’ve all got our own way of doing things. In this roundtable, some of Autostraddle’s finest editors share theirs.

Grab some popcorn and get comfortable, kids, because it’s time to catch up on our favorite teen drama about tiny liars who are pretty.

Here’s the news we missed while I was freaking out about a potential technological disaster.

Everyone: ALI NO
Ali: ALI YES

A New York Times cover story graphically depicts the sexual assault a student named Anna experienced when she was freshman at Hobart and William Smith colleges. It also details the pathetic excuse for a judiciary hearing she and countless survivors across the United States have encountered when reporting rape and sexual assault to their universities.

“This show is a testament to amazing writing, and the exceptional acting of Tatiana Maslany, who embodies each clone with such fervor it’s hard to reconcile that they are all played by the same person. Each woman is extremely complex and strong and make perfect examples of the badass and fearless women that I write about every other week.”

“Bad girls” in YA, lack of diversity, an awesome interview with Janet Mock, reconsidering adverbs and more.