Results for: be the change
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The Comment Awards Can Have Nice Things
“The heart with a dot below it is the menstruation heart you cannot change my mind.”
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Into the A+ Advice Box #11: Meeting the Parents, Department Drama, Friend Breakups and More!
Recovering after being ghosted, dealing with queer tokenism, knowing if you’re a top or a bottom, straight people are STILL not ok, and did that organizer ask you for an organizing coffee or a COFFEE coffee??
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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Mastering Pain
How to stop yearning and make your own magic instead, figuring yourself out, tell a friend their partner is bad without using those words and more.
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Warren Leads Autostraddle’s Politics Survey, Sanders Is Second and Everyone Else Is Far Far Away
Who do the LGBTQ+ women and non-binary people who took our Politics Survey plan on voting for in the Democratic Primary?
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Sunday Funday Has Gay Shit to Watch While You Cook From Home
We are still here and there is still so much good in the world! Here are things to watch on a screen from your home — including Bad Bunny, Lizzo, and Trixie Mattel. Happy Sunday, babes!
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“Wynonna Earp” Episode 409 Recap: I Dream of Ginny
Purgatory’s Trivia Night turns into a competition for who has the tastiest brain and Waverly learns why Nicole has been too afraid to show her face in town.
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OPEN THREAD: Listen I Just Like The Word Christmakwanzakah Okay?
You will have a better time hanging out in this Autostraddle open thread than you will hanging out on Twitter today, I promise. It’s science!
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9 Poems to Read in These Trying Times
One place that I have found comfort before and continue to find it now is in poetry, the words of others who have experienced and seen unspeakable things and come out on the other side. I hope you can find some comfort in them, too.
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Samantha Irby’s “Wow, No Thank You.” Masters the Art of Self-Deprecation
Irby evokes Nora Ephron in her latest essay collection.
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A Candid Conversation About Queers in the Labor Movement with Longtime Union Activists Miriam Frank and Desma Holcomb
In 1990, Miriam Frank and Desma Holcomb released Pride At Work, a booklet on organizing for gay and lesbian rights in the workplace. They spoke with Autostraddle about their lives, this “naughty little pamphlet,” and the future of queer labor organizing. Plus, for the first time ever, the full 100-page pamphlet is being released online – right in this post!
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Black August: A Feminist and Queer Syllabus for Black Liberation
There’s a long and proud Black radical history of fighting back against the prison industrial complex and criminal (in)justice systems. So why is it that most of the voices that are upheld come from cis men?
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Holigay Gift Guide: Planners for Your Most Organized Decade Yet
Planners can be so many things: super structured, super loose, artistic or woo-woo or politically radical or conservatively minimalist. Here are some options to start with for yourself or a loved one!
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“Wynonna Earp” Episode 408 Recap: If U Seek Amon
It’s Halloween in Purgatory and Waverly and Wynonna don’t remember their own names.
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8 Amazing Audiobooks About Queer Women
The following 8 books are mind-blowingly good fiction audiobooks about queer women. I’m talking incredible voice acting that takes the story to a whole other level.
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My Top 10 Favorite Lesbian Films: Valerie Anne, Who Loves a Cheesy Movie and Won’t Apologize For It
I swear the Blockbuster cashiers knew I was gay before anyone else in my life.
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You Need Help: How Do I Spice Up My Relationship?
So you’re not looking for anything new… but something has got to change for you to feel more fulfilled in this relationship.
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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #29
Good morning to everyone who woke up with the a cappella hand clap chant from Portrait of a Lady on Fire in their head 🔥
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The Poet’s Choice
It takes effort to choose an ending. It’s a lot easier to get back together, to catch a flight, to miss a flight, to fuck someone else. It’s easier to be with someone until you hate them than to walk away with love.
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Bisexual Ice Dancer Karina Manta on Leaving Competitive Skating and Joining the Circus
Seeing two queer skaters having fun and being themselves, while incorporating dance elements that are so tied to queer history in ice dance, the most heteronormative of the figure skating disciplines, is a thrill. So I asked Karina Manta how she does it.
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Pop Culture Fix: Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe Keep Powering Each Other Up
Missy Elliott joins a new Cinderella adaptation, Batwoman casts a Nocturna (oh no!), Will & Grace cannot get bisexuality right, the cast of Pose is rightly honored again, and I hope you treated yourself to this Laura Dern song.