Results for: be the change
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Why Everything Transphobes Think About Detransition Is Wrong
Coverage of ‘detransitioners’ may claim it’s just asking questions, but it rarely asks the right ones.
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“Wynonna Earp” Episode 402 Recap: Her Secret Garden
This episode is Way Haught from beginning to end, though things aren’t all quite what they seem.
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The Drop: Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drew’s “Black Futures” Is a Triumphant Celebration of Black Voices and Black Innovation
Black people are the future, creating some of the most beautiful and challenging art we have seen, forging a way out of the past while being entirely cognizant of it. As the editors state in the introduction, time is not linear, we are always in conversation with the past, present, and future. Black Futures as a collection is keenly aware of this.
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The Illuminations Grant Offers New Possibilities for Black Trans Women Artists
The Illuminations Grant is a testament to what can happen when cultural producers invest their energy not just in the documentation of trans people, but also in creative solutions for their lives and careers.
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Pop Culture Fix: “Blindspot” Teases a Patterson and Zapata Wedding in the Series Finale
Adventure Time: Distant Lands will escalate Marceline and PB’s relationship, Lena Waithe on humanizing Black people on screen, why aren’t big studios interested in LGBTQ rom-coms, putting Black icons on magazine covers isn’t enough, and more.
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Playlist: Musical Theatre for the End of Capitalism
We can end capitalism, and we will do it with showtunes! Because, to quote famed lesbian Elphaba, “Nobody in all of Oz, no wizard that there is or was, is EVER gonna bring me down!”
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You Need Help: Is It Normal To Be Happy In a Relationship and Still Think About an Ex?
Time won’t necessarily “fix” it, but the more distance you have from the relationship and the more time you invest in healthy coping mechanisms, the less destabilizing these thoughts will feel.
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Sunday Funday Is Rewatching “The Watermelon Woman” and Revealing in Cheryl Dunye’s Black Queer Joy
1997’s The Watermelon Woman is required viewing for 2020 (plus, Cheryl Dunye was fine then and is still fine now!). Compton has a legally recognized transgender district, Bay Area queers have a legacy of providing mutual aid for decades, Disney has bisexual lead characters, and so much more! Happy Sunday!!
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6 Queer Authors on What It’s Like to Launch Their Books in a Pandemic
If you’re looking to escape reality for a little while, look no further than this year’s absolute bumper crop of queer novels. As late spring and summer literary events are postponed and cancelled, writers are looking for ways to connect virtually with readers and the publishing community – and finding ways to keep their creativity flowing in a difficult time.
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Your Lesbian Aunt Who Loves You Writes Your Dating Profile
Lately I’ve been joking that I am everyone’s lesbian aunt (or grandfather, depending on whether or not I am offering encouragement or once again scolding half of our team for not having flashlights in their apartments!). And so I thought, what if I just embraced that vibe and put it to work.
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This is Your Friday Open Thread for July 3, 2020
What’s up with you today? How’s your heart?
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“Antebellum” Forgot That Black Women Can’t Save the World From Fascism, We Only Must Save Ourselves
Seeing as the modern police force is an evolution of slave catchers, for a film trying to make a point about how the horrors of the past still exist in the present — it comes across as both ahistorical and like a serious misstep.
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What It’s Like To Realize You’re Trans and Queer in Quarantine
Suffice to say that we’ll all be coming out of this pandemic different people than we were before — but for many people, being in isolation is specifically providing the opportunity to explore their sexuality and gender in an intimate and unprecedented way.
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Queer Sex Coven: A Saturn in Aquarius Quarantine Spell
When Saturn moved into Aquarius on March 21, society began to look to the future and collective ways of thinking and living.
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Edith Windsor, Lesbian Trailblazer Who Changed Your Life, Has Died
Gay rights pioneer Edith Windsor died today in Manhattan. She was 88 years old.
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Happy Hour at Home: Welcome To The Gay Club
I miss the rare fucking times of being in a room full of entirely queer people. Dancing and shouting together. Even the messy nights, the crying nights. So here’s how to turn your home into a hot gay club — with no bathroom lines! Playlist included!
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Anonymous Sex Toy Review: Unbound’s Puff Suction Vibe
“I thought the suction would somehow mimic a human mouth — well, the mouth of an individual who knows that a little light sucking can go a long way. It’s not like that at all — it’s way better. If there is a human who has a mouth that can do what Puff does, please send them my way as soon as fucking possible.”
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Pop Culture Fix: Cameron Esposito and Glennon Doyle Nickname LA’s NWSL Team “The Lesbians”
Heather Morris dances to Naya Rivera’s “Radio Silence,” BSC members as knights of the minor arcana, a new series for Pose creator Steven Canals, and Xena at her absolute gayest.
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The Comment Awards Are Normalizing Weird
“Yesterday I thought to myself, ‘I wonder what GayStew is doing in quarantine?’ And this morning I find myself reading this.”
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Queer Arabs Taking Up Space: An Interview With Zaina Arafat
Zaina Arafat’s You Exist Too Much is the bi Arab romance novel l didn’t know I needed. We chat about the book, first-gen traumas, sexual ambiguity and Arab parents.