Results for: be the change
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Boobs On Your Tube: Sorry, “The Bold Type” — We Can’t Agree to Disagree
The Bold Type is romanticizing repugnant viewpoints, like hardline immigration and conversion therapy, and treating those issues like they’re things we can just agree-to-disagree on. Also: an inexplicable In The Dark finale.
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Extra! Extra!: Let’s Look at What Freedom Means During Times of Crisis
This week’s Extra! Extra! takes a look at a variety of human rights and governance issues which have existed for a long time. Some of these problems are being exacerbated by or taking on new dimensions because of the pandemic. Others are flying under the radar as the COVID-19 crisis has drawn our collective attention.
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Extra! Extra!: A Socially Distant Democracy
This week’s Extra! Extra! considers the shocking indictment against Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and what democratic action looks like during social distancing.
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Bipolar Disorder, Trans Dykes, and Celestial Catastrophe
One patient in the study “Observation of Trends in Manic-Depressive Psychosis” by O. Spurgeon English recounted that living with bipolar disorder “is like opening all my pores on a cold day and subjecting myself to catastrophe.”
I too have felt like a catastrophe of a person, a catastrophe of a star, a catastrophe of emotions. -
I Am Who I Am: Annalise Keating and the Power of Black Reflection
All I ever wanted to say is, “this thing that happened to me…is why I am the way I am.” But it was easier to deal with everyone else’s disappointment than to speak that truth aloud. I wasn’t strong enough for that. Annalise Keating was.
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“Disclosure: Trans Lives On Screen” Is a Vital Document of Trans Cinema
Trans film history — like all film histories — is one filled with contradictions. “Disclosure” succeeds by making these contradictions its subject.
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Queer Horoscopes for April 2020: What Are Your Keys to Control, Connection, and Staying Centered?
The astrology of this month is about deepening into the places where we need to heal. Losing control, we find our connections. Here are some tools for working with fear.
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A+ Roundtable: The Sex That Taught Us What We Really, Really Like
“I don’t know how to explain what that did to my guts, unless you know exactly what I mean in which case youknowwhatImean. It was so mind-blowing.”
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Be The Change: 5 Quick Tips for Finding and Keeping Activist Volunteers
Pro tips for attracting, engaging, and retaining volunteers to help you win campaigns and get shit done!
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Queer Tarotscopes: Aries Season Gives Us Courage, Guides Us Forward
Ambitious and bold, this is an opportunity to take on new challenges, to see things through our most optimistic lens. When have you been holding back? Where have you been afraid to voice your desires, your ambitions, your deepest wants? What the hell is stopping you from going after what you want?
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Are You Ten Years Ago: We Remember Tegan & Sara’s “The Con,” Which Changed Our Lives
“I was nineteen when The Con came out, and boy did I ever feel her in my heart.”
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“Motherland: Fort Salem” Centers Women And Its Queer Relationship In Its Powerful First Season
Motherland casually and seamlessly put queer women at the center of its story.
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Queered & Careered: 12 Ways to Cope at Work When You’re Just Not Feeling It
For those days when you wake up for work and a repeated round of “fuck this” is going through your head.
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WAP Is Still Bringing Wet Ass Joy To Queer Black Twitter
Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion set Queer Black Twitter ablaze with WAP. The lyrics, the video, and strong femme sexuality have kept it on replay — and give us permission to be audacious in the pursuit of pleasure.
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Anonymous Sex Toy Review: The Stronic Surf
Fun Factory’s Surf, the latest in their line of pulsators, lets you ride the wave of deep massaging ridges as far as they’ll take you.
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8 Great Queer Scandinavian Books, from Tender Novels to Supernatural Horror
This list includes a variety of different genres. The only requirements were a main queer woman or non-binary character, written by a Nordic / Scandinavian author, and set in a Nordic / Scandinavian country or featuring a Nordic / Scandinavian protagonist. Enjoy!
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Also.Also.Also: Stop Killing Black People
Ahmaud Arbery Should Be Alive Right Now. Also: support queer and lesbian bars and businesses, how our LGBTQ elders are faring in the pandemic, and honoring Ida B. Wells with a posthumous Pulitzer Prize.
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Remaking Myself and My Desires on the Comics Page
An exploration of how this cartoonist came into her bisexuality by seeing her desires made manifest in others’ art and decided to make herself seen through her own art.
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The Dyke Kitchen: Top Your Instant Ramen
I don’t see it as a culinary failure to plan to have instant noodles for dinner. But before I get into my favorite ways to elaborate on, accessorize, perhaps even elevate a pack of instant noodles, it’s important to note that not all instant noodles are created equal.
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Trusting Abundance: A Conversation With Organizer, Sammie Ablaza Wills
“I’m not interested in creating comfortable spaces. I’m interested in safer spaces where people can be challenged.” Sammie Ablaza Wills gathers wisdom from their elders and fellow trans, queer community to lead the grassroots org, API Equality Northern California.