Results for: be the change
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Make Your Own Kickass Block Printed Patch
A patch that you’ve made and sewn on yourself — especially if it’s sewn with dental floss — is a badge of honor professing your ideals, feels, and crew.
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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Permission To Be Yourself
How to grow out your pubic hair, consider the assless panty, clean your sex toys, prevent summer UTIs, learn what your astrological sign says about what you’re like to date or dump, and more.
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Top 8 TV Moms To U-Haul With Right Now
There comes a time in every queer lady’s life where you start identifying way more with the mother figures in all your new and old favorite shows. Coincidentally, that also happens to be when you start noticing how crush-worthy they’ve been all along.
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Read a F-cking Book: Nicole Georges’s “Fetch: How A Bad Dog Brought Me Home”
“Fetch” is a beautiful love letter to a pet, a coming of age story, and an exploration of all the complexities of what it really means to take care of another living being.
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Sunday Funday is Wearing Rainbow Chucks to the Frontline Awards
U.S. national soccer is sporting rainbow letters for pride, super gay sneakers from Nike and Converse if that’s your thing, self-care according to the laaaadies, Astrea’s Fueling the Frontlines Award are intersectional feminist fire, a new album from artists living in countries where being gay is dangerous or illegal, and more good queer stuff!
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6 Super Shops for Building a Dapper Vegan Wardrobe
An introduction to cute, cruelty-free clothing.
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Interview With My Ex-Girlfriend: Kelly
“I think that’s a distinct problem that two women face. It’s that, first you’re friends with somebody. And you know you’re compatible. But you don’t know if you’re compatible just as friends or if you’re compatible as a couple because you care about each other.”
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“Orphan Black” Is Back For Its Final Trip
The setting is new, the stakes are higher, but the excitement and the humor and the tension are the same.
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You Should Go: Queer Family Meal in Portland, OR
What better way to celebrate Portland summer than with an intimate dinner featuring a multi-course meal with a specialty cocktail?
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Five Skincare and Grooming Products for Masculine of Center Folks
Masculine of center people are often left out of conversations about skincare, but we all deserve to feel good and comfortable in our skin.
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Boob(s On Your) Tube: “Claws” and “Dark Matter” Didn’t Quite Live Up to Their Queer Potential This Summer
“These stupid white dudes fighting (with Whitney Houston playing in the background!!) while this black woman waits for them to tire themselves out so she can fix their problems. As ridiculous as it is, it’s my absolute favorite scene of the entire first season…and a fitting metaphor for the moment our country is in.”
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7 Bar Games To Make Your Holigays Merry and Bright!
Bookmark this list on your phone, send it to your friends in your group text. Be the hero who saves The Holigays! (Or at least, be the hero who kicks your party up a notch!)
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9 Queer-Run Podcasts You Should Be Listening to Right Now
If you’re having trouble shaking the feeling that all of your media feeds are one giant grief orgy, try changing the pace of what you take in. Not even the content, necessarily — just the rate. Podcasts are an easy way to do that: 30 to 60 minutes later, you’re done, informed, and ready to fight your next battle.
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It’ll Be Fun: Take The 2017 Autostraddle Reader Mini-Survey!
We wanna know more about you! Make our day by taking this survey.
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Notes From A Queer Engineer: Messed Up Middle-earth Mountains, Building Demolition And More
“Middle-earth’s got 99 problems, and mountains are basically 98 of them.”
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How Stiletto Nails Helped Me Embrace My Queer High Femme Identity
My nails may contribute to the erasure of my queer identity, but they represent a departure from following other people’s rules — and instead listening to my own voice.
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Rebel Girls: 20 Autostraddle Community Members Who Are Changing the World
Documentary films. Policy initiatives. Direct action. These 20 activists are doing it all to save the world — and they’re Autostraddle readers just like you!
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A+ Roundtable: The First Time We Kissed A Girl
“There were all these fairy lights and we drank and were drunk and everything felt warm and easy.”
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Protect Our Community By Supporting The Trans Relief Project Today
The Trans Relief Project is an organization working to help as many trans and gender nonconforming people as possible get updated U.S. identification – passports specifically – before the regulations surrounding those rules potentially change.
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“Orange Is the New Black” Episode 502 Review: White Male Lives Matter
Hey did y’all know white guys have feelings too?