Results for: be the change
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Thank You Jeanne Córdova, Love Autostraddle Dot Com
We’re closing out LGBT History Month with Jeanne Córdova — a legendary publisher and activist who died last year and included Autostraddle as one of many beneficiaries of her estate, which is why we didn’t lose our minds this year.
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Muscle Up: How to Get Bigger and Stronger, One Deadlift at a Time
Get bigger and stronger with this guide to putting on muscle mass.
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Raising Baby T-Rex: My Mom Says We’re Exactly The Same
I wasn’t at all ready for the feelings I’d have about being adopted and queer and raising a toddler who still isn’t as old as I was when I came to the United States on an airplane.
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Gifts To Help You Win at Dirty Santa (Which, Yes, Is a Competition)
The only thing standing between you and that sweet, thrilling thrum of victory is finding the perfect ridiculous gift.
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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Moving Forward Oh My God
Let’s gather ’round and build each other up! Deep breaths.
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Angela Robinson on Her Queer, Kinky Wonder Woman Origin Story and the Power of the Female Gaze
Also, of course: Who really killed Jenny Schecter?
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You Need Help: Your Friend Needs a Therapist, You Don’t Want It to Be You
You’re tired of feeling like your friend’s therapist; how do you opt out of that without just avoiding them forever?
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Things I Read That I Love #253: Surrendering To The Trash Aesthetic
Topics include screwed millenials, America Online going offline, lana del ray / the love witch / i love dick, the reckoning, photo-editing apps, wrongly accused, Plimouth Plantation, the most hated poet in Portland, murder, and so much more!
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Boob(s On Your) Tube: Arizona Robbins and Annalise Keating Suffer Through Their Midseason Finales
Plus some thoughts on this season of Queen Sugar!
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PHOTOESSAY: Transgender Day of Remembrance in West Hollywood
For Transgender Day of Remembrance, I went to the City of West Hollywood’s event and talked to some of the community and those elected to serve about what TDoR means to them, what they’re doing to fight for the living, and what we can do every day.
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“One Day at a Time” Brings Even More Heart and Humor and Gayness to Season 2
One Day at a Time is the most generous, compassionate, loving family sitcom on television. Carmen reviews the season, plus a bonus interview with her mom!
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“The Alternative Is Awful”: Sexual Justice Pioneer Carol Queen on Why Sexual Justice Needs to Evolve
“Sexual justice has to adapt. The alternative is awful.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Writer Alexandra Franzen on How Words Change the World
Over the years, I’ve gotten emails from people who have said things like, “You inspired me to quit my job and pursue my real passion.” I want everyone on the planet to experience that same feeling — that feeling of knowing, “I matter, I am helping, I am making a difference,” whether you’re connecting with an audience of 1 person or 10,000.
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Monday Roundtable: Feels Like the First Time
Here are first time experiences that seem mundane to everyone else but were truly special for us.
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Putting the Her in Herb: “Queens of the Stoned Age” Talk Marijuana and Matriarchy
Merry Jane’s new series “Queens of the Stoned Age” brings us all things cannabis from an all-female cast. But which fires will it stoke?
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“Imposters” Is a Perfect Show for Lesbians Who Love Love (And for Lesbians Who Think Love Is a Lie)
Come for the gooey feelings, stay for the deception and scissoring quotes.
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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Into Small Fierce Moments
Love as a series of small moments, how to be a better listener, why couples use babytalk, dating someone with sexual trauma and more.
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Carrying Heavy Shit: Teaching and Unteaching Gender in the Wilderness
“There’s an easily accessible narrative in wilderness travel, to pretend we’re living outside of society, and to strive to create a better version of it. The temptation to argue that “x doesn’t really matter out here” rears its head in all of the usual places: race, socioeconomics, gender, age. What I’ve come to struggle with in the canoe, and years later, is which way to go. To continue my first argument, to dismantle gender, or to teach gender – to teach what it means to be a strong, dirty woman, to ask my co-instructor to teach positive masculinity.”
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One Pair of Tomboy Toes Boots Five Different Ways
What’s better than a great pair of ankle boots? A great pair of ankle boots made for queers by queers!
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Y’All Need Help #14: Yes or No Edition!
Answers to all the yes/no questions you sent in since last Tuesday!