Results for: be the change
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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: How Did You Know You Were Home?
Whether after moving to a new place, switching apartments in the same city, or finding the community you’d been searching for, what made you realize you’d arrived?
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A Love Letter to Butch People (That Is Accidentally About My Dad)
Being able to be soft in this world is important for a lot of folks; but also, I think it’s a privilege. And when you exist in a world saying “women look like this” and you do not look like this (and maybe even aren’t a woman), it takes being hard in order to thrive. There is beauty in being hard that way. There is a reason we tell our lovers their haircuts make them look “sharp.”
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Queer Girl City Guide: Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti
Two of the cutest cities in the Mitten State want you to come say hello! Yes, “the mitten state.” How adorable is that?
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Pop Culture Fix: The Lexa Pledge Hopes To Change Queer TV From The Inside
The Lexa Pledge will make sure Lexa didn’t die in vain, Steven Universe’s gayest episode is getting its own book, The Fosters is on Netflix now, Gillian Anderson wants to talk to you about her bisexuality, and so much more pop culture news!
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The Real-Life LGBT Outlaws of the American West and Writing Queerness Back to Historical Fiction
Each of these small bits of history made me hungry for more information, and brought home how many stories — especially those about queer folks — have been lost, compared to those few that have survived. I wanted to imagine queer people where they must have been, in shipyards and customs offices and coastal boom towns. I wanted them to be in love, to be gender outlaws and survivors, to triumph.
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69 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About “The L Word”
You’ve seen the show but do you really KNOW the show?
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 49, September 2018
“also can you truly — in your true heart — think of a better headline than “i put a sheet mask on my cunt””
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Before I Go, Here’s My Top Ten Favorite “Drawn to Comics” Comics of All Time
It’s time for me to say goodbye to Drawn to Comics. Here are some thoughts on what all of y’all have meant to me and my favorite comics along the way.
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Brown, Queer, Sad, Strange, and a Skilled Practitioner of Each
I found a different self slowly, learned to exist as if with many different goggles on at once. Always speaking from my mother’s kitchen in the Silicon Valley and, at the same time, my grandmother’s crowded living room in Punjab. In these years, I would feel the sharpness of many kinds of difference, marginalization. But when I looked down at myself for signs of why I felt so other, all I would find was the color of my hands.
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Queer Girl City Guide: Glasgow
Welcome to Glasgow, Scotland’s biggest city! You’re going to love it.
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“Supergirl” Episode 410 Recap: Forget Me Not
Alex and Supergirl butt heads with Haley, Kara and Lena go to spin class together, and Alex takes drastic measures to protect her sister.
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“Good Company” Is the Best Magazine a Queer Aspirant Could Ever Dream Of
“Good Company,” a new magazine from Design*Sponge’s Grace Bonney, is a radically diverse incredible new project you should support ALSO I JUST SO HAPPEN TO BE FEATURED IN ONE OF THE ARTICLES.
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Pop Culture Fix: King Princess and Amandla Stenberg Are One Helluva Gay Power Couple and Other Stories
Topics include King Princess in Billboard Magazine, Nicole Maines talking about being a trans superhero, Riverdale astrology, Hannah Gadsby, Lena Waithe’s new Showtime deal, Syd the Kid and more!
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Raising Baby T. Rex: How We Learn “Good” and “Bad”
“Good” and “bad” in a very bad world, fall fun, toddler logic, echolocation, fall fun, adults-only Halloween, and a requested cat + baby update.
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The Comment Awards Are Sauced on the Today Show
“Every conversion into Hayley Kiyoko fanhood that I enable makes me feel more holy and closer to g-d.”
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Queering the Jewish Holidays: How I Celebrate Shabbat
Last week’s Shabbat was a tragedy. Let us make this week’s Shabbat a space for mourning, for healing, for connecting, for resisting, and for peace. Shabbat Shalom.
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Lez Liberty Lit: The Queer Erotic Debut Novel of the Summer
How queer writers create queer stories, the history of writing as a history of book burning, queer bookstores to visit and more.
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Ring of Keys Collective Wants Your Heart to Say Hi
“I had felt so isolated as a queer woman in the musical theatre industry and… to get to talk to one other person about that experience has meant so much to me… I want more people who feel isolated in this industry to not feel isolated.”
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“The Bold Type” Episode 202 Recap: Meet the Parents
“Rose Colored Glasses” bites off way more than it can chew.
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Types of Crying as Mitski Songs
“Intense but very brief sobbing in the shower while you get ready for work because your roommate never leaves the fucking apartment and it’s the only time you can.”