Results for: be the change
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“All American” Episode 202 Recap: Speak Ya Clout
Whatever my quibbles with All American, it’s moments like these that truly separate the show from nearly every other one on television. Everything about the scene between Coop and her mother felt real and lived in it’s not just that All American is telling this story, it’s that they’re doing it in a way that feels authentic.
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Insta Crush: WMN Zine Wants To Hear From Rural Dykes ASAP!
The theme for the first issue is Seasons of a Dyke. Deadline to submit is Thursday, 8/15. See what it’s all about!
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Into the A+ Advice Box #10: Is She Straight or Into You? Can You Dress Gay? and More!
Be the cool queer cousin you wished for as a kid, the polite way to turn someone down, sex is still great without an orgasm, creating your own queer community when you feel alone in the world, and 20 other questions from everyday readers like you!
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“One Day at a Time” Is Back When We Need it Most
To have this show on the air at this moment — even if Netflix had renewed the show, it likely would have debuted in January — it just felt fated. We needed this show at this moment and I was so grateful for it.
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KaeLyn Rich’s “Girls Resist!” Is a Guidebook for Intersectional Feminist Superheroes
“It’s the urgency of being a girl, in the broadest sense of that admittedly binary term, of being a marginalized person and knowing in your heart that you have the power to change your world.”
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Presenting the Winners of Autostraddle’s Second Annual Queer TV Awards!
Over 30,000 votes later! Here are your winners and our critic’s picks!
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 66, February 2020
I think it’s very Cancer of me to watch Mary Lambert’s “She Keeps Me Warm” music video on Valentine’s Day just so I could feel my heart clench and cry a little.
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Sunday Funday Worships With King Princess, Parties (for One) With Carly Rae Jepsen
Plus: Five Black women who can change the face of politics, bisexual women in the midterms, Ring of Keys live, lesbian Harry Potter proposals and more!
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Making Lovers Of Friends: My Bisexual Account Of Women Who Don’t Belong to Me
When it comes to my queer desire, my favorite feeling is a juicy lack — I don’t have the person or thing I want and that tastes like salted caramel perpetually not in my mouth. The distance is not only enjoyable, it’s my edge, but sometimes it feels like there’s something missing.
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I Went to the Minnesota Renaissance Festival and All I Got was This Shirt and Self-Confidence
While I really love the feeling of being transported to a new time and place, like when I’m reading a good book, what really got me misty-eyed about this festival was how inclusive of all weirdness it was.
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Generation Ex: 9 Chaotic Queers on Their Decision to Watch “L Word: Generation Q” With Their Exes
Some folks I talked to said they’ll be watching with exes, some with their current partners’ exes, some with exes who they’re still hooking up with. What a rich tapestry of messy queer life.
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Surviving Utopia: Finding Hope in Larissa Lai’s Piercing Novel “The Tiger Flu”
Life – fierce, painful, unyielding, complicated – bursts from every page of The Tiger Flu, which tells a story of love (and hate) between women in a futuristic world overrun by corporate technocracy and the effects of climate change.
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Wmn Zine: What It Means To Be A “Rural Lesbian”
Wmn Zine, the love letter to lesbians created by Jeanette Spicer, Florencia Alvarado, and Sarah Duell, is the exploring the radical nature of the word “lesbian.”
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 67, March 2020
“top 10 things you shouldn’t say to your girlfriend”
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Queer Horoscopes for July 2019: How Your Sign’s Navigating Security and Vulnerability Through July’s Eclipses
The best way to resolve relationship anxiety isn’t what you think this month, as the eclipses show us what’s been hidden.
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11 Poems to Read to Your Lesbian Lover in Isolation
11 poems of varying lengths that you can read to your lesbian lover with that expensive wood wick candle flickering on the bedside table.
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Finding Friendship Between Past and Present
She is living her best life. I am living mine. It is as though we released each other.
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“Pose” Episode 208 Recap: Truth Like A Blazing Fire
“Black people caring for each other or holding any sort of intimate space together is something that I rarely see on TV. With Black queer people and specifically. Black masculinity is politicized and weaponized so much that sometimes I think it walks into the room before I do.”
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“Gentefied” Will Drop Brown Queer Love Bombs All Over Your Netflix Queue
Put quite simply, it feels damn good to see two Latina lesbians fully themselves, accepted by their loved ones, and at no point expected to leave their queerness at the door.
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Four Ways the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Affecting the LGBTQ+ Community
In this pandemic, we are watching the compounded failures of capitalism and narcissistic government play out. We’re seeing issues that primarily target marginalized communities now take a broader toll. But as members of marginalized communities, we know what that means: our community is getting hit even harder than before.