Results for: be the change
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Into the A+ Advice Box #7: Gender Neutral Parent Names, So Many Questions about Crushes, and More!
Highlights include: going down while wearing a nose ring, surviving the United States as a queer immigrant, living on the same college campus as your ex, and also how to perfectly time your break up. That’s just the beginning!
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Monsters & Mommis: “Cat People” and “The Seventh Victim” Come Out of the Closet
The real horror is straight people.
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Boobs on Your Tube: It’s Unofficial Date Night on “How to Get Away with Murder”
Plus updates on All American, Legacies, Almost Family, Black Lightning, and This Is Us.
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“Good Trouble” Episode 113: Vitamin C
The end of Alice’s season one arc will make you cry, in such a good way, the way The Fosters always did. Plus, the return of The Men Are Trash (But Sometimes Not) Leaderboard!
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PHOTOESSAY: Merqueen of the Springs
Dive into this fantasy based world where the merqueen of the springs spreads her wings and takes up space.
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CherrÃe Moraga on Delving Into Her Queer Chicana Memories in “Native Country of the Heart”
Moraga’s latest, “Native Country of the Heart,” is a deep meditation on memory — reflections of the past, recalling hard moments, losing ourselves, and remembering who we are as Mexican-Americans, in more ways than one. She spoke to Autostraddle about her new book and the journey her queer feminism has taken over the course of her career.
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Things I Read That I Love #289: Your Body Turns Off The Gas If You Stop Paying Your Bills.
Topics include Law & Order, LA bookstores, podcasts, Jared’s Galleria of Jewelry, Barilla pasta, the millionaire hermit, the stolen kids of Sarah Lawrence and so much more!
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It’s A-Camp 2019 Campership Time: Apply For One, Donate Some Money
Read essays from our 2018 A-Camp Campership recipients and find out how to help send more lucky campers to this year’s celebration in Ojai!
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Writing Queer Ugandan Futures into the Present
The story of queerness in Uganda, bound as it has been to fictions about who we are and who we ought to be, is a story of resilience, love and community.
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The Truth About Cats and Dogs and Gay Dating
We’re here today to talk about dealing with your crush’s pets, and also dealing with your own pets in the context of your crush!
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Lez Liberty Lit Is Cussing Like No One’s Listening
Writing and money, machines learning from our texts (and replicating our power structures), whether books are clutter and more.
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“I’m Not Missing Anything in My Relationship”: Bi Women and Nonbinary People on the Challenges and Joys of Dating
Bi people’s dating experiences are often complicated by biphobia and sometimes, a feeling of isolation from both queer and straight monosexual people.
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Bi-Suited
With the golden age of women’s red-carpet suiting upon us, who is queer fashion for?
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Going Outside with Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
Maybe if trans women can redefine what it means to be close to nature we can also redefine what it means to be close to each other.
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Insta Crush: Jamie Thrower, the Fat Femme Behind Studio XIII Photography, Creates Visual Love Letters to Our Community
“I believe that stepping in front of a camera is one of the most vulnerable things you can do, and so I want everyone who allows me the honor of photographing them to feel celebrated and seen and loved.”
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Please Don’t Touch: A Trans Lesbian Does India
In the span of a few hours, in two different Indian airports I experienced a spectrum of responses to my gay trans self that would serve as a microcosm of not only my trip, but of my entire queer experience. There are no guarantees, so I’m learning to be my own safe space.
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The “To L and Back” Live Podcast With The L Word®: Generation Q Cast is Here
We had an incredible time on Wednesday talking to the Generation Q cast about filming sex scenes, L Word origin stories, riding losing winning, falling in love with your best friend and so much more! Plus: a full transcript of the podcast!
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Here’s Why Trump-Era Republicans Are Obsessed with Trying to Outlaw Trans People
In a post “love-wins” America, we’ve circled back to the underlying legal thinking of the 1950s. In the late 2010s and especially under Trump, gender and gender conformity are back under the legal microscope in a move that targets the gender nonconformity fundamental to aspects of gay identity for many, and also increasingly and dangerously, trans people.
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Natalie Morales on Playing a Revolutionary Bisexual Bartender on “Abby’s” and Sharing the Stage With Squirrels
“It’s so important to tell stories about marginalized people, but if we tell stories that reduce them always and only to the ways they’re marginalized, it just perpetuates the problem.”
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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Loves Tiny Moments of Mutual Recognition
The importance of small weak everyday social ties, the difference between the narrative you build about a relationship and its truth, why PornHub buying Tumblr won’t save it and more.