Results for: be the change
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Breakups and Being Alone 101: The Autostraddle Guide To Life After Love
We’ve got advice on breakups and exes, playlists to see you through, unhinged behavior we highly recommend and so much more from the annals of Autostraddle’s achy breaky hearts.
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Started from the Bottom: A Lifelong Bottom’s Adventures in Topping
Much like how everyone told us “OMG you’re both Geminis? This will never work,” we were also told “OMG you’re both bottoms? This will never work.” Joke’s on everyone else; the healthiest relationship and the best sex of my life has been with another bottom.
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“Supergirl” Episode 515 Recap: Dare to Dream
Dreamer and Supergirl team up to fight one of the ugliest villains National City has ever seen: transphobia.
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You Need Help: Can I Tell My Poly Roommate Not to See Her Partners Because of Coronavirus?
It becomes increasingly difficult to ask individuals to make huge personal sacrifices, at great cost, when it is clear the government is doing almost nothing to move us toward a different world.
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Be The Change: 5 Tips to Plan a Damn Good Activist Meeting
How to organize a meeting that won’t result in headaches, boredom, or existential dread.
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Queered & Careered: 10 Tips on Working From Home in the Era of Social Distancing
Since working from home is a part of the national call to practice social distancing, many of us are also navigating loneliness, restlessness, and anxiety. Here are a few tips that can help you on your journey.
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Enduring “Straight Time” to Build Our Own Radical Queer Utopia
The world tells us that we should not want anything beyond what is here and now, right in front of us, but what’s in front of us is violent and harmful. What’s in front of us is killing us. Wanting for more is such a queer project.
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What Your Therapist Wants You to Know
Your therapist will probably never tell you the intricate personal details of what their work with you sets off in them, but please don’t doubt that we learn just as much about what it means to be a human by working with you.
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The Future We Lost in the Fire
Book archives and research on queer identity from the Institute for Sexual Science were destroyed by Nazi book burnings. Our history and culture got lost. What else had I missed about the queer past of my city?
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Raising Anti-Racist Kids: A Guide and Book List for White and Non-Black POC Parents
Protecting our children from hard conversations about race is actively aiding and abetting white supremacy. We can’t afford to stay complicit.
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A-Camp Is Taking a Break in 2020
We’re pressing pause to rebuild.
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Winter 2020 TV Preview: Where To Find All The LGBTQ Women and Trans People on Your Television
Behold! Our seasonal list of every single TV show — new and returning — featuring a queer or trans woman character!
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“Wait, Is This a Date?” Podcast Episode 102: The Chart
This episode is all about lesbian interconnectivity — hooking up with friends’ exes, friends hooking up with our exes, and the culture created by all that drama. Come for the gossip, stay for the emotional processing.
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My Top 10 Television Characters: Carmen, Who Never Forgets the Women Who Deserved Better
Is it a coincidence that this list of “women I loved who deserved better” is comprised of women of color — and almost exclusively queer women of color? Given the intertwined histories of sexism, racism, and homophobia in this country, I think not.
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VIDEO PLAYLIST: These Bangers from Rhythm + Flow’s Lesbian Rapper Londynn B
Londynn B is a lesbian Cardi B by way of Grace Jones — all charisma, swagger, and sex. With the bars to back it up.
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Boobs on Your Tube: Are Those Wedding or War Bells We Hear on Black Lightning?!?
Plus updates on The Bold Type, Grey’s Anatomy, Station 19, S.W.A.T. and All American!
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Tips on Staying Sober Through The Holidays
Staying sober through the holidays can be anxiety inducing even for the best of us. Here are some tips to get through the big three!
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How Social Media Fucked Up Lesbian Breakup Culture
Breakups are so often garbage and hard, and managing the social media that surrounds it is just another gross layer that makes them even more garbage and even harder.
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Be the Change: Using Your Words as Weapons of Resistance
How to use a message triangle, come up with impactful slogans, and why we need to sharpen our words to fight back.
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Things I Read That I Love #305: How Various Plaid Shirts Made Their Way Into My Closet
Topics include hangovers, ArtPrize, the George Foreman Grill, Patriotic Millionaires, The Talented Mr Ripley, 100 books that defined the decade, fair food, the year in pivoting to video and so much more!!