Results for: queer parenting
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 30, December 2016
“Do you think Putin is upset that we did not include “Vladimir” in this list? It is a pretty lesbian name.”
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Walking and Talking, Kicking and Screaming: An Interview with Ruth Curry of Emily Books
“If I saw my writing career through the eyes of a mediocre white man I’d be, like, that dude would be fucking high on himself constantly.”
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Mama Outsider: How I Learned the Definition of Obscene
“I was unstable and grieving and more suited for a patient friendship than the dramas of new love. But I loved her and in thirst, I acted unlovingly by climbing into a lap in which I wasn’t welcome. My behavior is the definition of obscene.”
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From Fashion to Radical Art: 8 Disabled-Owned Businesses You Should Know About
When the world isn’t built for you, you build something for yourself. We know how to adapt and generate new ideas because we’ve been doing it out of necessity for our entire lives. So sorry, tech bros – “entrepreneurial spirit” doesn’t exclusively belong to you.
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The Comment Awards Loves A Good Frozen Yogurt
This week we have adorable prom stories, comment poetry, arts and crafts, Game of hotness and so much more!
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Countdown to Baby T. Rex: Sipping My Way Into the Third Trimester (27 Weeks)
“Sometimes I turn to Waffle and randomly exclaim, ‘This is happening!’ I should probably stop doing that as we get closer to, like, the possibility of me going into actual labor.”
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Things I Read That I Love #206: At Last I Saw A Woman, Younger Than I’ve Ever Been
Topics include Black Lives Matter, catching up with the prisoners whose sentences were commuted by Obama, OJ Simpson circa 2001, Marie Kondo, Bill Cosby, Miami Beach and moar!
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You Need Help: Talking to Your Family About Your Partner’s Pronouns
If they are feeling hurt by people who don’t want to use their pronouns or just by a long day of having to gender in the world, listen to them and ask how you can help ease the stress.
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Team Pick: “Queer Kid Stuff” Brings Fun LGBTQ Videos to Preschool Children
Lindsay Amer is the cool Queer Big Sister you wish you had when you were a wee tot and she’s changing the landscape of kid-friendly content for ages 3-7.
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141 Arrested for Peaceful Standing Rock Protest; White Armed Militia is Acquitted
141 arrests were made at Standing Rock on Thursday, police in Washington fatally shot a pregnant Native woman during a welfare check, a new lawsuit filed in Utah challenges the state’s “no promo homo” law, two proposed anti-abortion laws in Alabama were blocked by a judge and more news.
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38 Lesbian Magazines That Burned Brightly, Died Hard, Left A Mark
AfterEllen is a part of a legacy of brilliant publications created by passionate lesbian, queer and bisexual women that unfortunately no longer exist, but were cool for a while.
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Playlist: Queer Summer Suburban Ennui
This playlist accompanies all of the feelings I have being queer in suburbia: gay, lonely, bored, and confused by my neighbors’ dedications to their lawns.
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I Didn’t Know How to Be Poor, Black, Biracial, AND Queer; So I Wasn’t
“I wasn’t in denial, I had just become extremely successful at compartmentalizing difficult emotions that I had no idea what to do with.”
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Notes From A Queer Engineer Recommends “Lab Girl”
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren is one of the most exquisite pieces of science writing I’ve ever read. As a researcher and professor of geobiology for the past 20 years, Jahren has earned accolades for her work. Here, she shares her passion.
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Béatrice Martin Of Coeur de Pirate Is Queer
“I can’t be scared that someone will stop listening to my music, or that parents might not want their kids listening to me because of the fact that I want to love whoever I want to love.”
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Also.Also.Also: New Yorkers Getting Free Tampons and Gender Neutral Restrooms and Other Stories for Your Friday
LINKS! I’ve got some for you! NYC is becoming a utopia of free tampons and gender neutral restrooms, fat-positivity in reproductive justice, Janet Mock on Stonewall, female graffiti artists, Gaby Dunn loves A-Camp, and mama bears using humans to protect their cubs.
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5 Tech Toys Way Less Disturbing Than This Furby
Furbies are awful, Furby Connects are worse. Here are five tech toys that aren’t Furbies.
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10 Badass Disabled Women You Should Know About
Disabled people deserve to know, from our school days, that we’re not just cases, diagnoses, or “not really disabled”; we’re part of a community with its own histories and triumphs.
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Drawn to Comics: Artist Rebecca Mock Talks Adventure and Gender in “Compass South”
“As a queer woman, I personally felt strongly connected to Cleo’s feelings about donning men’s clothes. To me she is someone who comes to prefer presenting as male or agender, and finds strength and acceptance through that. The 13-year-old version of me yearned for heroines like Cleo.”
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Moments Like These (Where People Are Repulsed By My Existence)
Like the time we got kicked out of a restaurant mid-meal by the owner because of a kiss.