Results for: be the change
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15 Activists to Follow Right Now for Some Much-Needed Hope and Empowerment
I don’t scroll mindlessly through Twitter and Facebook anymore. What I do instead is engage with the women activists who are leading our way in the battle through the darkness.
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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Tell Me Your Spookiest Stories!
It’s the Friday before Halloween and I want to know your spookiest stories!! ??
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Traveling to Meet Your Long-Distance Online Crush: A Gentle Guide
It’s 2019 and the world is our hot gay oyster! But… how do you actually go about planning a trip to meet the faraway queer of your dreams?
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Does Project Ara Signal a Sea Change?
Google’s open hardware platform for creating modular smartphones is back, but it’s different.
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Five Steamy Lesbian Reads for the Holidays
Are they literary heavy hitters for which you’ll need a thesaurus and previous experience reading Nietzsche? No! Are they fun romps through a winter wonderland with queer characters? Yes! Are said characters often trapped in places and hate each other at first but then fall in love and there’s really no risk except that which makes the love even more defined? Yes!
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“Legends of Tomorrow” Episode 402: Be Careful What You Witch For
Sara and the Legends go to Salem during the Witch Trials to fend off an evil Fairy Godmother while Ava works with Nate to save the Time Bureau.
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Sunday Funday Isn’t Afraid to Be Angry, Loud, and Proud
Stephanie Beatriz and Natalie Morales talk queer Latina power with the Advocate, refugee and activist belly dancer Shrouk El-Attar, a cafe in Mumbai that hires transgender servers, “Queering Desi,” Brazil makes legal gender marker changes easier, Mara Wilson on feminism and angry women, and of course Earring Magic Ken.
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“Supergirl” Episode 401 Recap: A New Hope
Nia Nal is the hope we all needed on this show, and Alex Danvers’ haircut is gayer than ever.
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It Sure Has Been a Week!: A Feelings Atrium
It’s been a rough fucking week! Come hang out in here with the rest of us who feel like we’ve aged 25 years in seven days if you need it.
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“To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 505: Lookin’ At You Kid With Zeke Smith
“I saw how they reacted to Max and I was like, ‘ohh, I’m gonna transition and I’m gonna be shunned from this community that I’ve longed for for 18 years, I’m gonna lose my community if I transition.'”
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 53, January 2019
“It’s been so long since I watched a lighthearted dramedy not set in the UK that I’ve forgotten the American way to pronounce condom.”
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15 TV Shows We Loved and Lost and Were Actually Sad About
News breaking last week that queer fan favorites One Day at a Time and Wynonna Earp were facing an uphill battle getting another season made has caused our TV team to: a) wail and gnash our teeth, and b) reflect on some of the shows we’ve actually mourned losing.
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“Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice” Draws Real-as-F*ck Maps of Justice and Care
A true map, it never says: this is the way to go, what to do. Instead, Piepzna-Samarasinha tells us what has worked for some people at some times, what could be done better, and also what went super wrong.
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“Riverdale” Episode 304 Recap: It Was Never Just a Game
John Hughes meets Wes Craven in Riverdale’s fun but surprisingly emotional ’80s tribute.
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Boobs on Your Tube: Sara Ramirez Breaks Hearts in Madam Secretary’s Family Separation Episodes
Plus the first updates of 2019 on grown-ish, S.W.A.T., Coronation Street, The Young and the Restless, General Hospital and Critical Role!
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“Supergirl” Episode 405 Recap: Healing Hearts and Taking Names
Alex works with Col. Haley to stop Jensen, while Kara works with Nia interviewing an alien healer.
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For Your Consideration: For Your Consideration
Bear with me here.
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A Birthday Party No One Else Was Invited To
The first time someone described Casey as having “stalkerish” tendencies, I defended her. For the most part though, I didn’t talk about it.
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The Life We Never Knew Would Find Us: Navigating Loss as an Interfaith Queer Couple
“We’re in Lancaster County at Erin’s family’s house, surrounded by plastic Bible quiz trophies adorned with gold crosses and family portraits taken at national parks. My bewildered partner comes to me, face slack, and tells me I need to call my mother.”
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Feelings, Rendered Material
I claimed to be a kid who “just loved birthdays,” when what I really loved was a socially sanctioned reason to shower my crushes with affection.