Results for: be the change
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The Other Shoe Drops: North Carolina and Mississippi Both Face Federal Lawsuits for Anti-LGBT Laws
Attorney General Loretta Lynch says some truly awesome words to trans people and against North Carolina’s HB2, The ACLU of Mississippi is challenging the state’s “religious freedom” law, a group of parents and students filed a federal lawsuit because they believe they’re being discriminated when a trans girl uses the correct facilities at their school and more news.
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Annotated: Jenny Owen Youngs “Fuck Was I”
“Everyone I had dated or made out with (or even thought about making out with) in the past year thought it was about them. At the time, I was certain they were all wrong — except, you know, one of them.”
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Disability and the Gym: Let My Body Do the Work
“I like toughness because it acknowledges an uncomfortable, complicated truth—that being disabled is hard—but rejects pity as an acceptable response. Instead, it gives my body credit for outlasting, adapting, and thriving in ways able-bodied people can’t imagine.”
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Lez Liberty Lit #98: So Sleepy
Reading nooks; the links between language, culture, and the way we think; queer books with POC protagonists; unlinking mental illness and creativity; and more.
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Countdown to Baby T. Rex: “Mommy” Feelings and Dinosaur Mobiles (25 Weeks)
There is no chance I’m going to evade the Cult of Mommy-ness. My undercut can’t save me.
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27 Packable Lunch Ideas To Up Your Brown Bag Game
These meals and snacks serve well at room temperature and stay fresh for hours in your brown bag, backpack, or bra (maybe not your bra).
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Countdown to Baby T. Rex: Crying Over MasterChef Junior and Halfway There (23 Weeks)
I’m not a crier. I really resist the idea that hormones affect me, but pregnancy hormones affect me. OMG.
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Pulse, Pride, and the Police: Why Liberation For Some Isn’t Enough
Rainbow stickers on one car does not make the NYPD and the areas it patrols safe for all queer people, especially those of us who are the most vulnerable members of the community.
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Failbetter Wants You To Succeed with Fundbetter
Failbetter’s Fundbetter is looking for narrative games from LGBTQIA creators, and they’re looking to help pay for their production.
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Here We Go Again: Mississippi Governor Signs Sweeping, Dangerous Anti-LGBT Bill Into Law
Mississippi is the latest state to pass an anti-LGBT bill that protects people who don’t believe in same-sex marriage, trans people and extramarital sex; the man who killed Islan Nettles took a plea deal to get a shorter prison sentence; Texas is considering protecting “religious freedom” in its constitution; a man from LA killed his son because he was gay and more news.
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Say My Name, Mey’s My Name Pt. II: Independent (Legally a) Woman
“As I write about my name now, I feel strength, and contentment and comfort and home. I feel more like myself than I ever have before.”
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LGBTQ People Can’t Have Safe Spaces But We Still Need Community
“Our community is at once intimately connected and hopelessly far-flung, legitimately linked by no more than three degrees of sex partners on a worldwide daisy chain and profoundly lonely. I only had community last weekend because I’d flown three hours to get it.”
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You Need Help: You’re Bisexual and Your Girlfriend Wishes You Weren’t
“Am I in denial? Should I view this as a total dealbreaker? What is a girl to do?”
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“Mother May I Sleep With Danger?” Is The Best Movie I Have Ever Seen
Misandrist. Lesbian. Vampires.
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 26, August 2016
“i’m stepping down from autostraddle
bye
you’ll miss calling me out when i give my body to the sea so” -
Things I Read That I Love #203: The Feeling That Your Body Is Running You
Topics include bias risk-predictors employed by sentencing judges, The Rainforest Cafe, Black Trauma Remixed For Your Clicks, journalism, how/why millionaire athletes go broke, IBS, the man with ten wives and more!
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View From The Top: Coming and Crying; Master and Slave
“Master and slave — in consensual, intentional contexts — are the precise words for the cravings I have in my heart and gut to own, control, protect and nurture my partner.”
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The Topless Touching Panel and Other Activities My Friends Think Happen at A-Camp
“The Dark Closet Private Conversation Area.”
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14 Crawfish Recipes to Spice Up Your Spring
14 recipes for leftover crawfish boil tails hanging out in your freezer.
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Witch Hunt: We Are the Weirdos
“We wanted to be pagans too or witches, maybe. Anything that would make us feel powerful because mostly we felt like we were at everybody else’s mercy. We wanted skirts and big boots, like ‘I will french kiss you and then stomp on your face.’ I wanted to be Neve Campbell. I wanted it to be real.”