Results for: queer parenting
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“Orange Is the New Black” Episode 412 Review: “The Animals”
“With one more episode in this heart-wrenching season, we are all still gasping for air and dreaming of justice.”
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Riese Finally Read Harry Potter: The Autostraddle Interview
It was a real treat watching her learn to love the series too, and so when she was all finished, I called her up on the phone and talked to her about her magical journey.
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My Virtual Brunch With Dolly Parton
“Dear Editor: You are cordially invited to have brunch with country music icon Dolly Parton this Sunday, August 7th.”
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Lez Liberty Lit #98: So Sleepy
Reading nooks; the links between language, culture, and the way we think; queer books with POC protagonists; unlinking mental illness and creativity; and more.
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A-Camp September 2016: It’s Time To Donate To Or Apply For Camperships!
Read these essays and feel inspired to apply for and/or donate to the campership fund for our September 2016 camp in Wisconsin!
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Also. Also. Also: Amandla Stenberg Thinks Your Hair is Perfect and Other Stories For Your Friday
It’s officially Pride month! Obama says so! Also Stonewall Inn gets official, bisexual bisons, immigrant-owned tamale co-ops, feminist Hogwarts slogans, Canadian indigenous people in video games, Amandla Stenberg has some hair and life advice for you, Brazilian women demand an end to rape culture, free food for Pride, supporting incarcerated LGBT parents, new emojis, and vagina manga memoirs.
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Follow Your Arrow: #periodpositive Creator Chella Quint on Challenging Taboos With Joy
“I’m psyched that I invented a thing, and I don’t wish to make money from it. I just want to try to retain a little influence over it with the support of fellow taboo-busters so we can make some changes around here.”
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Y’All Need Help #4: You’re a Person with Complex Emotional Responses to a Variety of Situations
A 28 year-old closeted lesbian and married mother of three, and a token gay friend who’s feeling quite encroached upon. Calling it like I see it!
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12 Big Baby-Making Questions This Queer Couple Asked Before Taking The Plunge
Questions I never thought I’d have to consider, but here we are. Get an exclusive peek into my over-processing journey towards queer parenthood.
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Things I Read That I Love #201: What Kind Of Grinch Would I Be To Have a Problem With a Bunch of Kids Dancing?
Topics include Cosmopolitan circa 1970, the abuse of mentally ill prisoners, job-hunting, Prince, Franzia, a boy injected with HIV by his father and so much more!
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The True Price of Salt: On the Book that Became “Carol”
“There are many American readers for whom The Price of Salt would still be a revolutionary, shocking, immoral novel, the kinds of readers who have never, to their knowledge, met a lesbian or bisexual or pansexual woman before and who imagine us all as monstrous caricatures.”
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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #7
Yvonne gets super-real about dealing with a very difficult situation, Aja talks toners, Cee takes a kitten on an airplane, and Laneia, Riese, Rachel and Heather say other things in response to things you said to us and well I don’t know I just think this is a really good one.
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Follow Your Arrow: Gym Owner Nathalie Huerta on Hard F*cking Work
“I didn’t get any funding until year three and it came from a member who truly believed in me. Now in year six, funding opportunities are coming from multiple places, thank you baby Jesus, but all of those opportunities are coming my way from relationships I have formed, not from banks or investors.”
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 19, January 2016
“It was like throwing a tennis ball at a wall and expecting it to bounce back but against all odds it gets stuck in the bricks.”
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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Pretty on Fleek
I’m feeling myself this week. Are you? Get in here and tell me about it!
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Stigma and Sisterhood: Life for Trans Women Since 1994’s “I Don’t Wanna Be a Boy”
“It took watching I Don’t Wanna Be A Boy to show me that the negative attitudes towards trans women have always been pervasive in society, that from 1994 to 2016 there hasn’t been much change in how society views us. But it also taught me that we share a sisterhood of sorts. No matter what time and what place, trans women of color are connected by our similar experiences.”
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 25, July 2016
“Today in the bisexual celebrities beat, I have fucking died”
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“Grey’s Anatomy” Says Goodbye To Callie Torres, TV’s Best Ever Bisexual Character
She told America they couldn’t pray away the gay, and she was right, and we believed her.
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Meet Autostraddle’s Newest Staff Writers!
You’ve read their writing so now let’s officially meet them!
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The Other Shoe Drops: North Carolina and Mississippi Both Face Federal Lawsuits for Anti-LGBT Laws
Attorney General Loretta Lynch says some truly awesome words to trans people and against North Carolina’s HB2, The ACLU of Mississippi is challenging the state’s “religious freedom” law, a group of parents and students filed a federal lawsuit because they believe they’re being discriminated when a trans girl uses the correct facilities at their school and more news.