Results for: be the change
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Panic and Parenthood: Having A Baby, Being Torn Apart, and Putting Myself Back Together
“In one of my college psych courses we had to try to use conditioning to get rid of bad habits. My classmates tried to stop biting their nails. I tried to stop panicking during sex.”
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17 Incredible Autostraddle Personal Essays By Trans Women
This post is 25% Mey Rude Appreciation Club and 75% “personal essays by trans women oh my gosh how do I pick only 16.” (I picked 17.)
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Drawn to Comics: Ranking the All-New All-Different Marvel Female-Led Titles
Did you know that there are 19 female-led titles from Marvel that I was able to put in this list!? How cool is that?
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This Business of Art Fix #9: The False and Unsound Will Be Vanquished
What’s going on with Gawker, what’s going on with Reddit, Facebook’s algorithm, coming up with ideas as a freelancer, why many entrepreneurs are comfortable taking risks, and more!
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Boob(s On Your) Tube: “Jane The Virgin” and “Supergirl” Make Monday The Most Feminist Night On TV
Jane the Virgin is a feminist masterclass, y’all. I also want to talk about the five things Supergirl is getting really right. Oh, and Mulan will be back on your TV in two weeks. I have included a photo of her with Merida for you.
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Daily Fix: #SayHerName Protests Remember Black Women and More News Stories
Why some members of San Francisco’s BlackOut Collective protested topless, the Girl Scouts of America reaffirm their trans inclusive policies, a man is charged with London Chanel’s death and other news stories!
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Orange Is the New Black Episode 312 Recap: The World is a Vampire
After eleventy hundred years of being pregnant, Daya finally has her baby.
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40 Recipes For Getting Fruit Into Your Face
If you, too, dream of a world where fruit is less of a decorative item in a basket and more of the main event, get ready to put some of these recipes into your mouth immediately.
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This Is How We Do It: Turn Your Smartphone Into a Hologram Projector
If I can do a craft, trust me, you can do a craft.
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue Seventeen, November 2015
It would be like Rachel’s “Helping you Help Yourself,” but with more of a Stef vibe and maybe just a series of gifs or images with captions that get right to the heart of the matter. Like “DON’T GO TO WORK LATE, ASSHOLE.”
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32 Summer Drinks, Boozy and Not
Infusions, tonics, tea, lemonades, fizzes, sangrias and more.
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Immigrant Trans Women Can Now Be Detained in Women’s Facilities, But the Fight Isn’t Over Yet
U.S. Immigration officials announced they’ll allow detainees to be housed in facilities that match their gender identity. While this announcement sounds good, many think it will have minimal effect on the lives of actual trans detainees.
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GBT Pods Won’t Keep Trans and Queer People in Immigration Detention Safe
Jennicet Gutiérrez, Rita, Karolina and Joselyn tell us what real support for undocumented trans women looks like.
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue Sixteen, October 2015
“I woke up to 57,000 emails reminding a user to resubscribe”
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21 Times The Gay Marriage Dissenters Stomped Their Feet Like Petulant Children
The gentleman on the losing side of the gay marriage decision didn’t go quietly. Here’s some of the worst of their grumbling.
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A-Camp 6.0 Recamps Part One: We Get By With A Little Help From Our New Friends
Welcome to the first recamp of A-Camp 6.0, in which everybody has a lot to say about the airport, cabins get decorated, campers show up, and opening ceremonies are had.
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9 Lies They’re Spreading about Planned Parenthood (and the Facts to Fight Them With)
You’ve probably heard a lot of alarming claims made about Planned Parenthood over the past few months — now here are the facts that prove them wrong.
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Gal Pal Chronicles: Rachel and Lizz Have Been Obsessed With Each Other Since Roughly 2008
Rachel: “The writing & philosophy class I was required to take freshman year mostly sucked. But there was this one girl, Lizz, who seemed cool. She wore comic book tshirts and had beautiful shiny hair. One day after class, I announced to a friend, ‘Lizz is not straight. I can just tell.'”
Lizz: “There was something about Rachel that I just couldn’t shake. She spent a lot of time quoting feminist theorists who I’d never heard of and she had what I would later come to call ‘Congenital Gay Face.'” -
Read A F*cking Book: Tanwi Nandini Islam’s “Bright Lines” Adds Color To LGBTQ Fiction
In a multigenerational, transcontinental tale, Bright Lines weaves together issues of gender and sexuality across cultures, migration, in/dependence, family secrets, conflict and tragedy, and well, botany.
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Butchbaby & Co. Brings Maternity Wear Out of the Women’s Section
Their philosophy is one of the best I’ve ever heard: “Don’t change just because your body does.”