Results for: be the change
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Queer Tarotscopes: Scorpio Season Is Ready for a Deep Dive
Scorpio invites us to dive as deep as possible, to consider what we want and to go after it with intense focus and endless drive. For those that can navigate this energy with an open mind, there’s endless potential for understanding, connection, and learning to trust personal intuition and magic.
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Gentrification Inside the Club and Out: How Stigma and Respectability Are Impacting the Sex Industry
The very same free speech arguments that lawyers used to attempt to defend sex shops and strip clubs in the late 1990’s are being used to defend against SESTA/FOSTA now — and the fallout is largely the same: erasure of so-called “deviance” for the sake of respectability and supposed “safety.”
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The L Word: Generation Q Episode 106 Recap: Loose Ends and Exes
This week on Generation Q, we get a special surprise blast from the past, young queer love, thruple MAYHEM and a very sloppy bro night as the town recovers from Bette Porter’s latest brush with scandal.
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“To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 508: “Lay Down The Law” with Ari Monts!
“My one note is, “God, I wish Tasha was a firefighter, so I didn’t have to feel conflicted about her.”
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The Lunar New Year Coming Out Letter I’ll Never Send To My Mom
I’m not coming out to you as a lesbian, umma, I’m coming out as your daughter. I’m tired of being a stranger to you and I’m tired of tripping over boxes in my living room because you’re incapable of just being vulnerable with me.
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Finding My Own Chinese American Community Through KTV
I’ve heard so many times that Asian America is about being caught tragically in the space between, never fully accepted in the U.S. and too Westernized to ever be Asian. Listening to my friends, I thought there was something defiant about singing in languages that we were told would never be ours, languages that this country wanted to force us to forget.
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5 Girl-on-Girl Vampire Relationships That Do More for Me than Willow and Tara’s
Five vampire couples who may not be safe to hang around when they’re hungry, but are pretty good girlfriends
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“Legends of Tomorrow” Episode 502 Recap: Never Trust a Big Butt and Smile
Sara and Ava go back to the ’40s in this off-the-cob episode, and jeepers it’s a real gas.
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Netflix’s “Hollywood” is a Land of Dreams — But Does It Earn the Fantasy?
“There’s a once-in-century virus eating away at the fabric of everything we know about how to live, just let the gays kiss for once! Let women of color win the fucking Oscar!” Drew, Riese and Carmen binged Ryan Murphy’s newest Netflix release, and they can’t wait to talk about it.
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Tell Us About Your Impulse Buys, This Is A Safe Space
No, but really, who can be trusted in a CVS?
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Extra! Extra!: Reopening Spikes and New COVID-19 Transmission Info Ring Us into Pandemic Summer
As the world crosses half a million confirmed deaths due to COVID-19, this week’s Extra! Extra! turns its focus to the latest COVID news and the disparate toll of the virus. In the US, battles are raging on reopening schools in the next month or so and the Supreme Court had another big week of rulings. Meanwhile, police brutality and intimidation, along with activism against police violence, continue.
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Raising Baby T. Rex: What Lies Between Us
“Do you feel like we’re drifting apart?” I asked.
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Extra! Extra!: VEEPSTAKES Edition
In this week’s Extra! Extra!, we take a break from our usual fare and instead offer commentary on some of the women who are on the short list to be Joe Biden’s Vice President.
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“Bachelor in Paradise” Finale: Demi and Kristian Broke Rules, Mended Hearts, GOT ENGAGED!
Beyond making Bachelor history or breaking boundaries, the conversations these women have had about jealousy, internalized homophobia, coming out, physical intimacy, open relationships, fear, and communication have far surpassed what we normally see between couples in these charged, difficult situations.
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You Need Help: Why Am I So Tempted to Cheat?
Cheating is a form of escape from our current situation; it allows us to momentarily be with someone else, maybe even be someone else, for a night. Honesty has consequences. Cheating, if we don’t get caught, does not.
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Extra! Extra!: Conservative Supergroups and Progressive Campaign Organizing, Oh My!
This week’s Extra, Extra! brings you some reflections on the 2020 US election (not the primary!) from our beloved political writer and 2020 Democratic Debate Recapper Natalie, more disheartening immigration and LGBTQ+ news, conservative organizing, a new progressive campaign arm from AOC, and an update on the Wet’suwet’en land protectors.
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Climate Change is a Problem Much Bigger Than the US — Here’s How All of Us Can Fight It
The Trump administration’s battle against environmental regulations and denial of climate change are terrifying, but the US isn’t the only nation that needs to do better by the planet, and fast. A scientist tells us what needs to be done, and where we can start.
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Queered & Careered: Things to Bring and Leave Behind
Queered & Careered is a column that offers tips and tricks on how to navigate career development as a queer person — from job searching to career inspiration to dealing with straight nonsense in the office.
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We Deserve To Be Selfish
I was ready to declare myself and to bring everyone else who was ready along for the ride. I thought, “I’m going to put as many women as I can into one publication, and they’re gonna get to say whatever the f*ck they want.” And Selfish, the magazine, was born.
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Autostraddle’s Favorite and Least Favorite Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans TV Characters of 2019
Here’s what we loved this year and what we didn’t like very much at all. We’d love to hear your opinions too, obviously!