Results for: be the change
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This is the Court Case That Could Finally Make Anti-LGBT Workplace Discrimination Illegal
This is yet another case in a series of cases at different courts asking the same question if sexual orientation and gender identity are covered under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
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Sara June Woods Wants to Write About Being Fucking Weird: The Autostraddle Interview
“I think I feel a little less desperation to be liked and a little more “fuck you if you don’t like me.” I think I enjoy flaunting my monstrousness.”
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Things I Read That I Love #214: It Was Time To Leave The Noise And The Bodies Behind
Topics include Dominos pizza, Cracker Barrel, leaving New York City, an alcoholic sportswriter, Stitch’s Great Escape, Kesha and SO MUCH MORE
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How Leslie Feinberg Changed Our Lives: The Autostraddle Roundtable
“I could feel the power that came from being butch, the paradox of growing up a girl and then becoming the suited partner of a beautiful woman, the torture of being such a social outcast, and the deep craving hunger for being accepted.”
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50 Blogs and Books and Podcasts That Inspire Queer Entrepreneurs
The internet is full of resources to help you start and run your business. These are some of our faves!
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“Until Dawn” Takes You Inside Every Trashy Horror Movie Trope
It’s surprisingly beautiful for a game that features multiple beheadings.
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Notes From A Queer Engineer: All-Occasion Presents For Women In STEM
Being a woman in STEM is hard work every single day, and I’m ready for our collective efforts to be recognized. Down with the patriarchy! Presents for all occasions!
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Lesbian Couples Sue Because Only Women with Male Partners Get Fertility Treatments Covered
New Jersey defines infertility as not being able to become pregnant after two years of having unprotected sex with a cis man — so the Krupas have spent about $50,000 out of pocket as they try to conceive.
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Things I Read That I Love #215: They Drank Champagne and Ate Cake, and She Told Him She Was Happy
Topics include Donald Trump in 1997, The Tower of Terror, My So-Called Life, Steve Bannon, Tom Hanks, Chipotle, Carl’s Jr, how we break, and more!
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Boob(s On Your) Tube: “Jane The Virgin” Makes Luisa A Real Human Again
Luisa gets a storyline with Rogelio, Pippy and TMI go dancing, Maggie hosts Sapphic Shabbat, and Stef wonders what Betty and Tara are getting up to.
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Acknowledge Your Universal Truth In This New Jane Austen MMO
No one who had ever seen MMOs in their infancy would have supposed them to be taken over by Janeites.
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This Was The Best Ever Lesbians Who Tech Summit
Politics, Black Lives Matter, Flawed Data, Weed—all were discussed at Lesbians Who Tech, proving that there’s no other technology conference like it.
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“Supergirl” Episode 205 Recap: Welcome To The Team, Danvers!
From the beginning, Supergirl has been fundamentally about three things: Women, love, and hope — and knowing how much strength is in each of those three things. Alex’s story is no different. Our story is no different.
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Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for August 2016
“New Moons are often a time for planting seeds and quiet reflection, but that with all that fire energy, expect this time to feel more erotically charged, more restless, and more externally focused. Use that fire energy wisely!”
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The Movement for Black Lives Puts Black Queer and Trans People First
The Movement for Black Lives released their list of demands for Black liberation and they definitely want to center queer, trans and gender nonconforming people in their work.
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Drawn to Comics: Get Pulled into Orbit By Tillie Walden’s Teen Space Webcomic “On A Sunbeam”
Walden is far and away one of the best cartoonists working today. She crafts such simple stories and images, but they hold in themselves universes of feeling, emotion and meaning. On a Sunbeam has one of the most interesting and compelling future worlds and character rosters of any comic I’m reading right now.
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How This 1976 Landmark Lesbian Film Helped Me Find Myself
How did I, a girl growing up in 1970s New York City, relate to a drama about two women who fall in love during WWI? And, why has it remained with me for 40 years?
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Lord Ivar Mountbatten is Bisexual, First Member of Royal Family to Come Out
Lord Ivar Mountbatten, cousin to Queen Elizabeth, has become the first member of the British Royal Family to come out.
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View From The Top: Playing Through Depression
It’s almost impossible to master while grieving. When that grief turns into a depression, is it even M/s anymore?
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The Best Episode of Netflix Series “Easy” Is Also Its Gayest, Duh
“Vegan Cinderella” ends on a bright note, entering the small canon of TV love stories between queer women that get a happy ending.