Results for: be the change
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Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: July Is a Black Unicorn
I’m still angry. Breonna Taylor’s murderers still walk free. Let’s be real, they’re probably running around without masks. Audre Lorde’s sense of restlessness and barely concealed fury are evident. But so, too, is her unwavering belief in our magic.
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Building Relationships Is Thriving: Interview with Meenadchi
Conflict is meant to happen. Relationships are strengthened by conflict. What are our capacities to engage with conflict in a way that doesn’t destroy us, but help us better understand each other?
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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is The Busiest Dating App Day of the Year
Today – January 5th – is the busiest dating app day of the year. Plus: A vibrator is a CES finalist, don’t live with your ex, and how to set boundaries around rough sex.
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“Gentefied” Trailer: Latina Lesbians Are Here to Save the Day! (And Their Family’s Taqueria)
America Ferrara’s new bilingual comedy series combines my absolute favorite things: Latinx families, drool-worthy close ups of food, and brown girls making out. What more could you ask for?
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Extra! Extra!: Have a Little Knowledge About the State of Voting Rights, As a Treat
Autostraddle writers discuss voter suppression, reproductive rights and access to care, and the fights for basic rights and freedoms around the world in this week’s Extra! Extra! Rejoice with us as London prepares to host the first Muslim pride festival in the world, coming April 11!
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“Indebted” Review: While You’re Waiting for “The Nanny” Reboot, There’s a Lesbian Daughter in Fran Drescher’s New Wacky Family Sitcom
Joanne — Jo, obviously — arrives on the scene in the pilot with a puppy in a BabyBjörn, thus endearing her to me immediately.
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L Word Generation Q Episode 208 Recap: Launch My Party and I’ll Scream If I Want To
Finally we return to the stuff everybody REALLY misses from the original series, like vague dialogue, bats out of hell and funding the CAC
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15,000 Stand Up For Black Trans Lives in Brooklyn, Show Us What Pride Month Should Always Look Like
Over 15,000 people turned up for the Brooklyn Liberation Action for Black Trans Lives this past weekend and these are the best photographs I have ever seen.
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Living While Black, Queer and Sometimes Mistaken for Male
My white queer friends don’t know why it’s such a big deal for them to not do any of the stupid and obviously illegal things they tend to do if I’m the one behind the wheel.
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Portland’s Black Lives Matter Protests Prove the Power of Mutual Aid
Donald Trump has described Portland’s Black Lives Matter protesters as “sick and deranged anarchists and agitators.” But after more than 100 nights of collaboration, protesters describe the crowd as “the most welcoming and caring community I’ve ever seen or been a part of.”
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Queer Horoscopes for February 2020: Find What’s Real and Start Anew
In a year full of pressure, February brings some cosmic sweetness that can help heal or hearts—or encourage escapism.
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A Quick and Easy Guide to Making Consent Exciting, Not Scary: An Interview with Isabella Rotman on Her New Book
Rotman’s comic A Quick and Easy Guide to Consent is a fun, well-written, and much needed refresher that I strongly recommend to anyone with a body that wants to connect with others and their bodies.
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The Dyke Kitchen: Strawberry Pie For Repeat Juneteenth
On this July 4th weekend, the only appropriate celebration of freedom is a repeat of Juneteenth. I’ve always had a festive and carefree association with strawberries, plus everyone’s bomb-ass strawberry Juneteenth desserts inspired me to make this cream cheese strawberry pie with a coconut cookie crust.
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Queer Tarotscopes: Aquarius Season Breaks the Things that Need to Be Broken
After this recent season of focused movement and intensive structure, Aquarius invites us to expand our vision of what’s possible, to let our imaginations take over, to consider what kind of future we want to build not only for ourselves, but for the world we inhabit. Where Capricorn helped us to stay grounded, Aquarius demands that we soar.
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Seeing the Wind: How It Feels To Be A COVID Nurse
The first time I took care of COVID patients, I felt helpless. I’d lost access to my purpose, to my spiritual practice that lives within deeply connecting to my patients. I felt undeserving of human connection. I’d become a “dirty” nurse.
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“Legends of Tomorrow” Episode 505: Charlie’s In Charge
Charlie runs from her past while helping Ava and the Legends run after Genghis Khan.
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Making Beltane Meaningful in Lockdown
Beltane is fast approaching and for many of us it’s going to be a solo celebration this year.
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Also.Also.Also: Straight People Apparently Wanna Make Their Marriages Gayer? How Sad for Them.
A mini-edition of “Straight People Watch.” Also, Roxane Gay’s favorite things of 2019, menstrual cups can save you, and the history of Playboy’s first black cover girl.
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Staying Sane While Staying Connected with Pauline Oliveros’s Queer Lineage of Deep Listening
Experimental composer Pauline Oliveros approached her identity as a musician not as a solitary genius but as a collaborator and facilitator. Her Deep Listening practices emphasize the connection between healing and activism, and can teach us how to navigate fear and despair together.
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Country Queers Documents the Myriad Experiences of Rural LGBTQIA Americans
“Community is a very complicated and roomy word. Rural queer people also have other layers of identity that inform their realities.”