Results for: be the change
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You Need Help: How Do I Get My Sexual Confidence Back?
You’re at your most vulnerable when you describe how afraid you are of never being desired by another again. Own that vulnerability, because really owning our soft parts is part of what confidence is.
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“JT LeRoy”: Kristen Stewart Is Phenomenal But Everything This Movie Tries To Say About Gender Is Bad
JT LeRoy is not a great movie. In fact, it’s pretty bad. And yet in so many ways it’s the perfect JT LeRoy movie, the inevitable conclusion to this whole twisted saga.
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Queering the Wild
Hey there science nerds! This is like taking high school biology all over again! Except this time when we explore nature, it’s going to be truly, deeply queer.
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Golden Animals in Manland: The Strange Place Queer Women Occupy in Bushwork
Bushwork — work done in the backcountry, often off-grid — offers a kind of freedom difficult to find in modern life. It is also a culture steeped in toxic masculinity in which queer women do not have a place.
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23 Lesbian and Bisexual Romantic Drama Films, Ranked
Our team weighs in on 23 romantic drama films including High Art, The Handmaiden, Carol, Blue is the Warmest Color and so many more.
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With “Pity Boy,” Mal Blum Is Ready to Be Seen
Plus, the new music video for “See Me” was filmed by Straddlers, featuring Straddlers, at A-Camp!
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 65, January 2020
“Sometimes with people my age it’s like are you gay or do you just live in a major city.”
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Cracked Apart
In the middle of a winter night in 1973, while the residents of a small island fishing town in Iceland slept peacefully in their beds, a crack opened up in a flat patch of farmland and began spewing fire.
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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: What Are We Gonna Do About Pride Though?
I want us to have a giant queer brainstorming session about how to bring the focus of Pride back to it’s origins.
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Boobs on Your Tube: “grown-ish” Says Goodbye to Shane
Plus updates on Claws, Siren, Grand Hotel, and Ambitions!
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6 Takeaways from the HRC Power of Our Pride LGBT Presidential Town Hall
From the crucial necessity of giving Black trans women a platform to speak to the legacy of the fight for marriage equality to the urgency of addressing FOSTA/SESTA, six takeaways from last night’s Presidential Town Hall.
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The Comment Awards Need a Poster of Megan Rapinoe
“If Katie McGrath could spend her one precious month of Supergirl hiatus to go on the other side of the globe, where every spider is a killer, to kiss women on screen again, I can face another day of my gay life.”
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My Old Elementary School Is a Toxic Waste Site and Other Environmental Nightmares
“Environmental problems are hitting Black neighborhoods particularly hard, but going unresolved because Black lives are deemed less valuable than others. A lot of us are being left in the dark about harm being done to our environment.”
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“Legends of Tomorrow” Episode 416 Recap: Lost and Found
All hell breaks loose in the season finale of Legends of Tomorrow. Also Sara wears a Supergirl costume.
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PHOTOESSAY: Taking My Chosen Body Outdoors
I decided to meet Syd in Oakland to celebrate my newly healed chest. We hiked out into the Happy Boulders, selected our first climb and immediately took off our shirts. It was glorious, but also terrifying and vulnerable.
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Queer Horoscopes for April 2019: Get Ready to Receive Deep Gay Magic
As Jupiter moves retrograde, get ready for some deep, gay magic coming at you from the cosmos this month.
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Boobs on Your Tube: “Queen Sugar” Finally Dealt with Its Queer Erasure Problem!
Plus updates on Burden of Truth, grown-ish, Ackley Bridge, and Tessa Thompson’s version of Eartha Kitt on Drunk History.
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You Need Help: What Does My Crush on Someone Older Than Me Mean?
“I have recently grown attracted to someone who is older than me. Not too much older, but enough to make me question where I’m coming from.”
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Vida’s Gay Vaquero Episode Breaks Emma’s Heart, Asks Hard Questions About Who’s Included in the Queer Community
We don’t get to define Emma’s queerness. We don’t get to tell her the terms of our understanding. She’s going to make those choices for herself.
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A Weaver of Unique Variety: The Magic and Legacy of Debbie Friedman
In her life, Debbie Friedman did not want to be defined by her sexuality, but there’s something that feels queer about her music. The hidden history, the lyrics about liberation and joy, and, yes, a whole lot about women dancing with timbrels.