Results for: be the change
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What the Border Wall Destroys
A border wall further fragments and disrupts nature, the land, and the people who are intricately woven into the Rio Grande Valley’s natural ecosystem. With increased militarization on the border, who has access to the land? Who is allowed to enjoy the land?
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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Getting Good At Boundaries
Why and how to set boundaries in any type of relationship. Plus, don’t date people who are ambivalent about you; how to take good nudes; how to know whether you’re ready to date again and more.
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“Good Trouble” Episode 110 Recap: Re-Birthday
Alice is finally starting to figure her way out of her Sumi problem, and introducing Good Trouble’s Men Are Trash (But Sometimes Not) Leaderboard!
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I Still Don’t Look Like Myself
“I can’t be a woman without the right clothes. I’ve been on HRT a year by now, but I still haven’t been gendered correctly by a stranger. It’s a lot of things. I try not to think about bone structure, about shoulders and necks and foreheads.”
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 54, February 2019
“I’m eating a candy cane and drinking wine and am like WOW I GUESS I NEVER LEAVE NOW”
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“Good Trouble” Episode 106 Recap: Imposter
Mariana has to explain boundaries to Raj again and Jazmin finally gets Gael to understand the bigotry she’s up against.
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The Mammalian Dive Reflex
I changed. But it was a gradual process, in the way a forest becomes stone. Petrified forest of a body.
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Hello, Goodbye: This Is Way Better Than a Lesbian Breakup Letter
After more than five years at Autostraddle, Yvonne is stepping down as senior editor. But before she goes, she wanted to take some time to reflect on her time here and to thank the incredible team and community that she’s had the pleasure of getting to know over the years.
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Stray City Is a Love Story about Friendship, Portland, and Chelsey Johnson’s Queer Community
If I could have willed a book into existence, that book would be Stray City — so I talked to Chelsey Johnson about her debut novel and what it’s like to render queer community so intimately for the public.
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Monday Roundtable: The Jewelry We Wear Every Day
“My favorite thing in the world is when people ask if it’s a mood ring so I can say yes.”
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A+ Roundtable: Our Favorite Mistakes
“I don’t really view those choices and connections as mistakes, because anything I did that I overall don’t regret isn’t really a mistake.”
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“In Between” Review: The Super Gay, Super Feminist Film No One’s Talking About
No false promises of “girl power” or happiness. Just a reassurance that being alone together is better than being apart.
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Holigay Gift Guide: Let’s Scissor Under the Mistletoe
Scissoring: the greatest sex act in the world? Who would be foolish enough to make that claim? Me, and this gift guide!
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Generation Q Showrunner Marja Lewis-Ryan On Period Sex, Why Carmen’s Not Coming Back and Dating Your Neighbor
“You can’t ask me that. Well, you can ask me. But I can’t tell you.”
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“The L Word: Generation Q” Episode 103 Recap: Lost Love
Who buys a bar and who gets punched in the face and who wears double-denim and who goes to church and who sat on a doll and who wants to reserve the Crystal Ballroom? There’s only one way to find out: reading this recap.
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“They Want Trans Shit to Be a PSA”: A Trans Woman Writers’ Roundtable
“I was going to do a story about trans women arming themselves? And all the edits we got back were like, ‘Can your characters look directly at the reader and quote trans murder statistics from last year?'”
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Birthdays I Remember
Melanie was born on August 5, 1982. I know this because I fell in love with her in fifth grade.
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How Coretta Scott King Leveraged MLK’s Legacy to Fight for Gay Rights
On this Martin Luther King Day, Autostraddle remembers the activist legacy of Coretta Scott King and her fight for gay rights.
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“Supergirl” Episode 411 Recap: Paradise Lost
Nia finally gets a place on Team Super and Alex’s hair somehow gets gayer?
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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #22
“All horror is queer culture, as is Halloween as you correctly stated, and the 1970s in general, AND all final girls are queer culture in a very specific way that can only be discussed when you’re extremely high during a full moon.”