Results for: be the change
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How I Claimed Being Thirsty as a Personal Lifestyle and Learned to Live My Dreams
The more I allowed myself to want, the more I realized I wanted. The more I leaned in to my desires, the clearer they became.
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For Your Consideration: Revisiting The Books You Loved in Middle School
You’d be surprised the kind of memories that can be sparked by a simple phrase or even by the look and feel of a book.
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You Need Help: How Do I Tell If I’m a Butch Cis Woman or a Trans Non-Binary Person?
If I could tell everyone how to differentiate between gender expression feels and gender feels, I’d be Sovereign Ruler of Gender and maybe things would be easier, but probably also a lot less fun.
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Queer Your Ears July 2019: New & Upcoming Releases from Queer & Trans Artists
I’m rediscovering how much I love simple, catchy, fun pop music. There’s some other solid rock, folk, and R&B this month, though, too!
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8 Summer Affair Books featuring Lesbian and Bisexual Women
Eight books with steamy summer affairs between women, with some settings abroad to boot!
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Things I Read That I Love #285: A Person Who Refuses To Try Something Better Is a Person Who Will Never Make Something Good
Topics include rats, being awake during surgery, defining disability, aerial skiing, a deranged mayor in late-90s Connecticut, Luke Perry, college admissions, Fox News, Outdoor Voices and so much more!
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Autostraddle March Madness — Best Coming Out: Elite 8
You have 48 hours to vote your faves through to the Final Four!
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How I Let Queer Literature Come Out to my Middle School Students for Me
Middle school is weird. It was awkward as hell when I was a hormonal, monstrous, uncertain twelve-year-old, and only slightly less so when I went back to teach English. So when I found myself, a 23-year-old rookie teacher, standing in a cafeteria fielding a question about how lesbian sex works from a seventh grader, I can’t say I had any right to be surprised.
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Femme Brûlée: Vegan Chocolate Mousse
Use the best chocolate you can find. Queer life is hard and you deserve it.
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December 2018 Queer Horoscopes: Time to Hold All This and Still Face the Future
As this epic year winds to a close, take some time this month to have all the feelings — and prepare for a dreamier, queerer future.
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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: On Cats And Sunsets
One of my cats died suddenly two weeks ago, but I still have two perfect cats and get to experience the sunset every night, so everything is different, but I’m okay.
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You Need Help: Navigating Aggression, Desire and Gender in Dating
You don’t need to measure up to any of the things you’ve been taught are the “right” ways to be as a sexual being. There is no way to do sexuality “right” by any objective, external standard.
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Queer Tarotscopes: Libra Season Is Ready for You to Lighten Up
Justice often feels hard and fast, black and white, intense and unmoving, but Libra reminds us that there are always multiple perspectives, gives us space to listen and process and be flexible in our decision-making. The deep transformations of the summer may have passed, but that doesn’t mean we stop growing.
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“Legends of Tomorrow” Episode 414 Recap: Is it Nippy in Here?
The Legends get trapped in the Ice Age trying to save Ray, while Ava, Nora and Mona try to stop Evil Gary.
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“Black Lightning” Episode 212 Recap: Double Dutch and Heartbreak
Sometimes you need to take your cute superhero girlfriend out for a movie and stroll through the park. And then sometimes, you have to leave her.
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For Your Consideration: 30 Slightly Unhinged Post-Breakup Activities That Aren’t Actually That Bad
Embrace a little chaos without getting in trouble with your therapist.
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Queer Horoscopes for February 2019: Time to Get Romantic with Yourself
February can really hurt. It’s a time when we all need a little extra love. Luckily for all of us lucky queers, we’ve got each other.
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“Riverdale” Episode 310 Recap: Broke Betty
The dads of Riverdale are acting out.
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“Pose” and “Tales of the City” Remember the AIDS Epidemic in Very Different Ways
The question becomes, are the generational differences portrayed in Tales of the City actually generational differences? Is the argument actually between baby boomers and millennials, gen x-ers and gen z-ers? Or have we simply widened the conversation to include, or begin to include, voices that were already there?
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“Legends of Tomorrow” Episode 410 Recap: Legend(ary) Family Vacation
Sara takes the Legends back to the 70s where they have to face their truths whether they like it or not.