Results for: be the change
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Rebel Girls: How Women (and Women’s Issues) Are at the Center of the 2016 Election
This election has been shaped by Clinton’s campaign at least as much as Trump’s trainwreck of one. She’s aggressively capitalized on her gender by positioning it not as a side note, or even a historic anecdote waiting to happen, but instead as a tangible asset than shifts her ability to lead.
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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #10
Can you help me understand why I identify so strongly with 80s music videos?
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Rebel Girls: 5 Times Women Swayed Presidential Elections
When women won the right to vote in America, they changed the entire political and cultural landscape that surrounded their lives.
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“Supergirl” Episode 219 Recap: Hope Floats
Maggie and Kara work together to save Alex’s life. (And reader, they do.)
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Swords, Satan and Sexuality: Queer Nuns of the Past
“Somehow convincing the convent that she genuinely wanted to take holy orders Julie entered the nunnery with her girlfriend. Around a month in an elder nun died of natural causes and the two of them saw their chance; putting the dead nun in the girlfriend’s bed they set the nunnery on fire and ran off into the night.”
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5 Moments from Jeff Sessions’ Senate Hearing That Show How Dangerous He Is
From voter ID laws to his anti-LGBT record to ‘obscenity’ legislation to his deeply racist history, Jeff Sessions’ hearings have demonstrated why he can’t be allowed to become Attorney General.
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Pop Culture Fix: Lesbian Movie “Disobedience” To Star Two Actresses Named Rachel, What Next World?
Topics include a new movie about forbidden lesbian love from Rachel McAdams and Rachel Weisz, Suicide Kale, a superfan who managed to get her idol to leave her boyfriend for her, Grace Dunham, queer ghost hunters in Ohio and so much more!
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Rebel Girls: It Turns Out, Voting For Women Isn’t Enough
Voting for women isn’t all it takes to reach gender parity in politics. Changing our political system from the bottom-up will go a lot further.
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“The Good Fight” Episode 106 Recap: Bad Troll Rising
You can’t have a ripped-from-the-headlines legal show without a Milo Yiannopoulos episode.
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The 100 Most Lesbianish First Names, Ranked By Lesbianism
If your name is Alyssa, Nancy, or Kai… I have news for you. That news is that you are gay.
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Rebel Girls: Talking to Sarah McBride about Politics, Trans Rights, and Hillary Clinton
“It really was an honor to be able to stand on that stage and, hopefully, help educate the country a little bit more about transgender equality. More than anything else, I wanted to reinforce the simple fact that transgender people are people, who hurt when they are mocked, who hurt when they are discriminated against, and who want to be treated with dignity and fairness.”
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Rebel Girls: 10 Women Who Want to Save Congress from Itself
These women are running for open seats in elections pitting them against Republicans or are fighting like hell to overthrow incumbent Republicans. That matters!
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Empowering the Feminists of the Future: A Q&A with “Powered by Girl” Author Lyn Mikel Brown
I chatted with Lyn this week about the book, youth activism, and intergenerational activism. She had a lot of amazing things to say, spoiler alert.
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Queer Women Take Over The 2016 Emmys
Kate McKinnon and Sarah Paulson and Jill Soloway (and Ellen and Hillary and Laverne and Tatiana Maslany and Regina King and Marcia Clark and Holland Taylor), oh my!
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32 Recipes That Prove PB&J Is A Perfect Combo
Practically perfect in every way.
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Bottoms Up: A Way To Move Through The World
I started to see submission as less about what happens in play and more about a way to approach the world.
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Loving the Whole Me: A Bisexual Mom on Coming Out to Her Family
“I sent a short, simple message saying that although I didn’t realize it fully until recently, I was indeed bisexual, that this was an undeniable part of my identity, and I could no longer comfortably hide this fact.
He never responded.”
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Catching Flies With Honey: How To Change Anybody’s Mind
This is an essay about searching for the most effective ways to engage those ambivalent, apathetic, or misinformed people who might otherwise find themselves on the right side of justice.
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Monstering Magazine Turns Our Pain as Disabled Women and Nonbinary People Into Power
Monstering is the first ever magazine for disabled women and nonbinary people — and if that’s you, they want to see your work!
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Follow Your Arrow: Designer Sarah Gottesdiener On Creating Feminist Propaganda
“I offer products that strive to act as feminist propaganda, as a reality disruption. To pay my gargantuan monthly student loan debt by selling weird feminist gear? It seemed like an awesome joke on the universe.”