Results for: be the change
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AM/PM: It’s Morning
Welcome to AM/PM, where Autostraddle team members share our morning and evening rituals. This is how Erin starts her day!
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3 Apps to Help You Make the World Better
Three more apps made for the Resistance as we continue to rail against the corrupt white nationalist regime that has taken hold in the U.S.
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VIDEO! Getting In Bed with Gabby Rivera: Summer Body Love
I went all the way to New York to get in bed with Gabby Rivera last week, and we talked all about body image, summertime feelings, and America Chavez. It RULED.
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Introducing Camp Autostraddle X
We’re going back to California to chill at the pool with Mary Lambert, Jen Richards, Liza Dye, Mara Wilson, Gaby Dunn, Be Steadwell, Brittani Nichols and a bunch of weirdos (that’s you!)
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Laverne Cox’s Latest Role Is a Turning Point for Black Trans Women in Fashion
By choosing Laverne Cox as a brand ambassador, Beyoncé is turning the spotlight onto her black, queer supporters, and allowing us to be seen.
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These Queer Humans Are Going On Tour To Make Your Autumn Even Gayer
Check out tour dates and ticket availabilities; there’s a good chance one of these awesome acts is headed to a city near you!
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What Actually Useful Things Did You Learn From Your Exes?
So grateful to our exes for opening our eyes to these tips and tricks and vital life skills. No really, we’re actually grateful. Sarcasm-free.
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I Get Bi with a Little Help from My Friends
In general, my bi friends understand the alienation, erasure and self-doubt that comes with being bisexual in a “can’t you just pick one” world. By seeing and believing each other’s negative experiences, we help each other reduce the harm of those things.
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Bad Religion
“Here was a community where race apparently didn’t matter, because we were all humans, made in the image of God. Where a pacifist, sensitive, caring Jesus was the primary male role model. I finally felt at home. I was promised complete acceptance and understanding, and all I had to give was… well, everything.”
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Monday Roundtable: What Reality Show/Game Show Would You Destroy?
“Does anyone at the CIA who is for sure reading this want to hire me?”
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Y’All Need Help #16: You Can Do Things About You!
Being miserable at your 9-5 job, your family isn’t wild about your fiancee and you’re embarrassed to get married, you’re not wild about your current roommate, and people think you might be related to your gal BUT YOU’RE NOT. Come on in!
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Get Ready, Stay Ready: Allied Media Conference Reps the QTPOC Future
“The conference serves as a portal to collective dreaming and scheming where barriers become bridges to a more just future.”
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Things I Read That I Love #247: A Pit of Pink Snakes That Will Inject Me With Pink Venom
Topics include group chat, murder, Jamaica High School, Rosé, Basic Instinct, libraries, the injustice of the criminal justice system, why cops shoot and more.
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Pop Culture Fix: “Degrassi” Is Adding Its First Ever Genderqueer Character This Season
Yael is coming out as genderqueer, Fun Home’s lyricist responds to de-butching allegations, Gillian Anderson also thinks The X-Files behind-the-scenes sexism is baloney, Wonder Woman continues to shine, Jennifer Lopez share a story about her lesbian aunt for The Fosters new promo campaign, Sense8 is kinda coming back, and oh so much more!
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Holigay Gift Guide: Support These Indie POC Designers
From makeup and skincare products to statement tees and accessories, I’m confident that you’ll find more than a few items on this list to love. Also, almost everything is under $45.
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Five Trans Service Members on the Glory and Agony of the US Military
These are stories of trans people who have served or are serving in the US military; their experiences range from the positive to the deeply traumatic and everywhere in between.Â
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Refund Equality Act Aims to Recover Same-Sex Couples’ Tax Benefits Denied by DOMA
This legislation would ensure that legally-married same-sex couples – who, until the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2013 Windsor decision, were barred from filing federal taxes jointly – are permitted to file amended tax returns back to the date of their marriage.
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A+ Roundtable: Misconceptions About Lesbian Sex
There was a time before time, in the yawning abyss of darkness and starfire that is the infinite and ever-expanding universe — a time before any of us had had lesbian sex. Most of us thought about it, though, or tried to imagine how it would work! We were not always correct.
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 40, October 2017
You’re really gonna wanna see this video Heather made us while on painkillers after taking apart her Roomba to see if she could put her Roomba back together.
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“Wynonna Earp” Episode 206 Recap: Beaver Buzz
You didn’t expect to have your heart broken and healed and broken and healed, over and over and over again, when you started watching a sci-fi western for the kissing girls, now did ya?