Results for: be the change
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105 Trans Women On American TV: A History and Analysis
Autostraddle walks you through the entire history of trans female characters on American television from 1965-2015.
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This Business Of Art Fix #17: A Really Sort Of Creepy Relationship With Women In General
Changes and layoffs at Gawker and a rebuttal from Wonkette, layoffs at pretty much every print magazine ever, FHM folds ’cause dudes are embarrassed to be seen with it, more digital publishers are asking their readers for money, Uber drivers sound off about their actual work conditions and more!
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Fool’s Journey: 10 People-Free Tarot Decks for Your Collection
When tarot decks are filled with images of people, it can sometimes feel hard to relate to your cards. Here are some decks that use animals and other symbols instead!
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20 Excerpts from Kayla’s Elementary School Journals, 1998-2003
With illustrations!
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The Comment Awards Really Get You
We’ve got alpacas, blood oaths, mozzarella sticks and so much more!
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Five Images Of My Family
“I’m going to be a single, poor, gay, mom, and it’s going to be fine. It’s going to be amazing. I mean sure, I might date sometimes, but I don’t need a partner. Partners just get in the way. And what are the odds that I would meet a woman I would want to be with who would also want to have children with me? I can’t even picture it!”
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Someone You Love Is Voting For Donald Trump — Now What?
Here are five ways you can cope with the knowledge that a person you love is making a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad decision.
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22 Smoothie Recipes To Freeze (And Fuel) Your Brain (And Body)
Nothing is better than cold fruit giving you a brain freeze on a warm day. It makes you feel alive and invigorated!
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Helping You Help Yourself #23
Getting that weird label glue off things, making a thousand tacos, growing herbs indoors, avoiding tax scams and more!
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Saturday Morning Cartoons: Little Things
On the little things that have changed.
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Riese Finally Read Harry Potter: The Autostraddle Interview
It was a real treat watching her learn to love the series too, and so when she was all finished, I called her up on the phone and talked to her about her magical journey.
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Rebel Girls: 9 Queer Glass Ceiling Crashers Currently Doing Good Sh*t
There’s a whole lot of patriarchy left to shatter in this cruel world, including at every level of our government. And we need people to crash through glass ceilings in politics who aren’t just straight women.
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With the Passing of HB 2, North Carolina Signs Hate into Law
“What’s so scary about HB 2 is that it doesn’t seem discriminatory when first read, but the contradictions are all over it. It says that North Carolinians have the right not to be discriminated against, but then makes the basis of that protection “biological sex”, immediately endangering anyone who isn’t cisgender. This is terrifying.”
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5 Things I Learned from “The Gutsy Girl”
“The Gutsy Girl” is part memoir, part instruction manual, part unbelievable true adventure tale. It’s also a New York Times bestseller, which gives a hint about how ready we all are for a no-holds-barred hurrah for bravery now that we’ve integrated the term “impostor syndrome” into our mental catalogue of what’s holding us back.
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The Cast of “Orange Is the New Black” Performs “Pinot Noir” This Sunday Funday
Politicians and laws that don’t suck, an LGBT-friendly church AND an LGBT-friendly gym, “Pinot Noir” by the Orange Is the New Black cast, and “Formation” by some Pikachus.
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Let Me Google That For You, Pt. 3
“When will I—”
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LGBT Youth Get New GSA Name and Tagline; LGBT Elders Get Left Out of Key Legislation
The GSA is now more inclusive of all genders and sexualities but the Older Americans Act isn’t inclusive of LGBT elders; Islan Nettles’ killer will go to prison for 12 years; progress on Merrick Garland’s confirmation, a congresswoman crusading against online harassment and more.
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India Beaty, Queer Black Woman, Killed By Police in Norfolk, Virginia
India Beaty, a queer black woman, was fatally shot by Virginia police for carrying a replica handgun, bombs in Brussels kill at least 31 people, a new study finds Canadian LGB people have chronic stress and drink heavily, The Bronx Trans Collective opens and more news!
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Fool’s Journey: A Tarot Reading for Restlessness
“I feel lost. I have the time, but I don’t know if I have the drive anymore to put my whole self into something new. Or even where to find something new at this point. Is finding something new no longer new enough?”
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Queer Girl City Guide: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Today, Baton Rouge is as much a travel destination in Louisiana as New Orleans. The city has seen a revival the way many mid-sized cities across the U.S. have in recent years. Here you’ll find a highly curated list of activities, sights to see, and places to be seen in Baton Rouge from a resident queer.