Results for: be the change
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25 Books Relevant to Your Queer Feminist Interests Coming Out Spring 2020
Many of us are intentionally spending more time indoors, and it’s a great time to pick up a new book. Here are some of the most exciting and interesting books by, about, for, or otherwise relevant to queer women, nonbinary and trans readers – not an exhaustive list, by any means, but a good place to start!
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Queered & Careered: Practice Career Cocooning
Inspired by a caterpillar, cocooning describes a time when you are forced to wait and prepare for the transformation that is taking place inside you. Thanks to Covid-19, many of us are dealing with career cocoons right now. Here’s how to cope.
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Sunday Funday Is Already Getting Ready for Pride with Janelle Monáe
Happy Sunday! Janelle Monáe is headlining NYC Pride Island, lady basketball coaches, new music videos, and so much more! Come celebrate with us!
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Lez Liberty Lit: In The Temple of Horror
New original fiction by Carmen Maria Machado, approaching queer community from a place of love, on being publicly shamed, linguistic gatekeeping and more.
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We Find Freedom in Black Trans Joy
We place joy at the center of our spaces, because spaces created for us are often only interested in our trauma and pain.
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“Work in Progress” Is Too Much and So Am I
Throughout its eight episodes Work in Progress showed the value in being there for people even when it’s hard – and the importance of knowing when to walk away.
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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Learning New Skills
Why sex workers have always known Zoom is anti-sex, the post-pandemic future of porn, why now is a great time to learn to how to take nudes and more.
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How to Have Gay Sex for the First Time: A Workshop with Luna Matatas
From owning your erotic imagination to navigating your anatomy and someone else’s, here’s your intro to having gay sex for the first time.
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Juniper Moon Folk Arts: Crafters, Activists, and the Glories of Gas Station Food
During Pride month, rural queer owned Juniper Moon Folk Art is doing weekly giveaways to raise funds for black-led organizations and bail funds working in antiracism and prison abolition.
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Chatting With Meg Elison About Investigating Rural Poverty in “Find Layla”
Elison’s latest novel, Find Layla, looks at the realities of poverty and neglect for teens in the age of social media.
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Sunday Funday Is Ready With VIP Couch Access to the Hottest Queer Zoom Clubs
Happy Sunday! We’ve got so many queer clubs for you to visit in your jammies, movie news, history lessons, feminist art talks and more!
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Here’s Your Latest COVID-19 and Coronavirus News, Updated Throughout the Week
To keep everyone abreast of the latest pandemic-related news, we’re creating a Coronavirus edition of Extra! Extra! that will be regularly updated with the latest news. We’ll continue our regular Extra! Extra! column each Friday with non-Coronavirus news because, after all, the world keeps on turning.
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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power’s Final Season Gives The Gays Everything They Want
“Even after all the growth and apologies, all the blushing and teasing, all the conversations about what they both want, I couldn’t let myself believe it. I was so afraid to be let down. But holy shit y’all, THEY DID IT.”
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Things I Read That I Love #309: Like The Cone With Flowers Coming Out of it to Look Like Ice Cream
Topics include Kinfolk Magazine, the Jazz vs Thunder no-game, 24 hours as EMTS during coronavirus, the opioid crisis, chain pharmacies, Estonia, Katie Porter and so much more!
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Police and Prison Abolition 101: A Syllabus and FAQ
The work around decarceration has been some of the most successfully documented, accessible, and digitally interactive of any movement. This is a guide to guides, organized loosely by some of the main questions and thought processes that often come up around entry into abolitionist thinking, offering resources addressing some important ideas.
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My Top 10 Television Characters: Kayla, Who Has Mommy Issues
A prime selection of Mean Moms and Women Who Could Beat Me Up.
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Resistance 101 Reading List: A Crash-Course for Aspiring Revolutionaries
You’re joining a fight that is by no means new, check out this list of books to make sure you come correct to the next rally.
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Yo! That’s Not Cool #16: Resolutions
Change doesn’t have to be made just once every 365 days.
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“To L and Back” Podcast Episode 501: LGB Tease
We’re back NOW WITH TRANSCRIPTS for Episode 501, in which Jenny refuses a croissant and Tasha calls to say she can’t talk right now and Jodi hates table cloths.
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 72, September 2020
I did make out with my ex in the house here and there but the family was French and basically encouraged it and gave me wine every night.