Results for: be the change
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“The 100” Finale: Clarke and Lexa Reunite One Last Time
Lexa might not have seen peace in her lifetime, but her legacy will be equality in representation, in defying the tropes, and in holding creators accountable for minority representation.
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Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for June 2016
This month is all about love as a learning process. We begin the month with Sun and Venus (our sense of self, and how we attract love) in Gemini–sign of curiosity, humor, and investigation.
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“Orange Is The New Black” Episode 406 Review: Piece of Sh*t
No Hope Allowed.
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You’re Invited on My Journey Towards Understanding Snapchat
Here’s exactly what I found in my quest to understand Snapchat. Let’s take this journey together.
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 28, October 2016
“I would give anything to see Rachel start a discussion with a writer that begins with ‘Can I be frank'”
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Interview With My Ex-Girlfriend: MA
“Rather than the ‘Irish goodbye’ where you slip out without telling anyone the ‘lesbian goodbye’ is to have a sort of intense breakup and then continue to sleep in each other’s beds.”
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 24, June 2016
“I hope you gave birth to a swan, invented a new way to eat pineapples, started recycling or used a cucumber as a dildo after your dog ate your dildo. I hope only good things for you.”
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“Scream” Halloween Special Recap: Shear Horror
Attention, new folks in charge of Scream: Queer women are loyal viewers. Be good to us and we’ll be good to you.
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Fool’s Journey: How Can I Create Harmony in My Genderqueer Identity?
“How can I balance or better integrate the masculine and feminine sides of myself, in a healthy way? As a genderqueer individual, I’ve been struggling in expressing these traits as I feel completely at war with myself. Lately I’ve been trying to find my strength again, but it seems to be coming out all wrong.” A tarot reading explores the process of integration.
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Kourtney Yochum Becomes the 7th Trans Person Murdered This Year, We Find Ourselves Asking the Same Old Questions
Seven trans people have been killed this year, six trans people of color. That’s two every month, and we’re not even done with March yet.
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Chelsea Manning Hospitalized With No Explanation, Denied Access to Lawyers
The military refuses to tell Chelsea Manning’s lawyers about her status; Diamond ‘Lavish’ Reynolds, Philando Castile’s girlfriend, speaks out; a gay man was brutally arrested at Riis Beach; the FBI is investigating the case of a man found hanging from a tree in Piedmont Park and more news stories.
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News Fix: North Carolina Democrats Motion to Repeal HB2, Don’t Get Your Hopes Too High
North Carolina Democrats file to repeal HB2 and 54 protestors are arrested; Florida’s 24-hour waiting period before an abortion is halted — for now; three teenage girls drowned in a stolen car and their families are questioning if the cops did all the could to save them; an editor of a LGBT magazine in Bangladesh was violently killed and more news.
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Bottoms Up: She Wants Me To Send Nudes But I Think She’s a Fuckboi
Nude selfies are how I first learned to see myself as a sexual being, and now they also let me determine how others see me — especially within kinky power dynamic relationships.
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Spike Reported in LGBT People Reaching For Guns In Wake of Orlando Shooting
There’s been a spike in memberships for a LGBT pro-gun rights group and a new surge of Gays Against Guns; Black Lives Matter temporarily shuts down Toronto Pride, the UN voted to create a position dedicated to LGBT rights around the world, married lesbian parents can now be on their child’s birth certificate and more news stories.
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14 Snacks to Feed (and Impress) Your Unexpected Guests
Here are some quick recipes utilizing inexpensive ingredients you likely already have on hand that will sate your guests and ensure your grandma won’t disown you. She can deal with the whole “gay thing,” but God Forbid you embarrass her with poor hosting skills.
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Root and Shaw’s “Person of Interest” Reunion Is One of The Best Gay Things I’ve Ever Seen On TV
All it takes is treating two women with scorching on-screen chemistry the same way you’d treat an opposite-sex pairing with that same rare and wondrous spark.
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Faking It Episode 301 Recap: Summer Lovin’ Had Them A Blast
Welcome back to “Faking It,” a show in which Amy definitely doesn’t have feelings for Karma anymore at all, definitely not.
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Hey, TV Writers — Here’s the Disabled Character You Need
I’m hopeful, though, that TV in particular has the potential to introduce richer disabled people with stronger context and more to say than “look how sad my life is.”
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Countdown to Baby T. Rex: Sipping My Way Into the Third Trimester (27 Weeks)
“Sometimes I turn to Waffle and randomly exclaim, ‘This is happening!’ I should probably stop doing that as we get closer to, like, the possibility of me going into actual labor.”
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“You’re Carrie, Y’Know?”: 7 Ways My Nondisabled Friends Get it Right
Because the world sure as hell isn’t telling me my body matters. And having nondisabled friends who do, who affirm me precisely for standing out, means I don’t have to accept pity masked as kindness.