Results for: a-camp
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The Illusion Of Safety
I don’t want to be caught parading around in last generation’s false sense of security. I’m kicking off Autostraddle’s first Asian Pacific Islander American (APIA) Heritage month by exploring the values my own South Asian and Japanese American parents and grandparents imparted to me, to learn to carry them forward.
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Episode 4, Season 8 of MTV’s Bisexual Trainwreck Are You The One?: A Love Story in Screenshots
This is the greatest television show of all time.
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The Comment Awards Are Sex Benching
“No cops at Pride, just a group of queers eating through these thousands of cookies that I brought from home.”
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The Comment Awards Are Freckled And Bug-Bitten And Just So Happy to Be Here
“Rosanna Arquette as Cherie Jaffe is *definitely* Mommi.”
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The New “Charlie’s Angels” Delivers Fights, Fashion, and Friendship
The movie pays homage to its predecessors while still charting its own course.
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“Wait, Is This a Date?” Podcast Episode 110: It’s In the Stars (and Cards)
How could we talk about queer dating without talking about astrology and tarot?
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Into the A+ Advice Box #39: FASHION
Jumpsuits at weddings, overalls, office wear, thrifting and tailoring and more! The Autostraddle team talks FASHION, specifically your fashion, in this special themed A+ Advice Box!
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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Might I Suggest A Themed Party?
Themed parties: Love them or hate them? Either way, happy Friday! Get in these comments and let’s talk about it!
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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #29
Good morning to everyone who woke up with the a cappella hand clap chant from Portrait of a Lady on Fire in their head 🔥
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The Comment Awards Are Asking: Are You The One?
“I went out last night with another Rachel…it wasn’t super awkward until she told me her ex’s name is Rachel.”
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Team Pick: “Nancy” Goes To A-Camp
Kathy Tu and Tobin Low create a sound-venture of queerness from the perspective of two Asian-American homogays. And now, they have an episode in which Kathy goes to A-Camp for the first time.
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A Weaver of Unique Variety: The Magic and Legacy of Debbie Friedman
In her life, Debbie Friedman did not want to be defined by her sexuality, but there’s something that feels queer about her music. The hidden history, the lyrics about liberation and joy, and, yes, a whole lot about women dancing with timbrels.
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#BlackLivesMatter: A Longform Reading List
Fifty years of words I liked reading and you will too! Authors include James Baldwin, bell hooks, Kiese Laymon, Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Toni Morrison, Bayard Rustin and Dr. Brittany Cooper.
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To L and Back LIVE! Episode 509: Liquid Heat With Gaby Dunn, Mal Blum, Brittani Nichols and Cerise Castle
The lights are out and everybody’s making out and we are having a live episode that you can watch (or read the transcript of!) right now, and also a podcast episode! WOW!
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The Comment Awards Are Taking It One Day At A Time
“Baby Glum, definitely. Maybe to the tune of ‘Baby Shark’?”
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Golden Animals in Manland: The Strange Place Queer Women Occupy in Bushwork
Bushwork — work done in the backcountry, often off-grid — offers a kind of freedom difficult to find in modern life. It is also a culture steeped in toxic masculinity in which queer women do not have a place.
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 64, December 2019
“i love it when middle age white women lose their shit and yell in lengthy monologues, too”
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Bipolar Disorder, Trans Dykes, and Celestial Catastrophe
One patient in the study “Observation of Trends in Manic-Depressive Psychosis” by O. Spurgeon English recounted that living with bipolar disorder “is like opening all my pores on a cold day and subjecting myself to catastrophe.”
I too have felt like a catastrophe of a person, a catastrophe of a star, a catastrophe of emotions. -
‘Wait, What?’ Is the Body-Affirming, Gender-Expansive Sex Ed Comic Preteens Need
The book deftly acknowledges that each of its five main characters is different in their experience of their bodies, sexualities, genders, romantic interests, and overall development. It allows each kid to define their experience on their own terms and shows a little of their process of becoming comfortable with their unique selves, while promoting kind and thoughtful behavior toward all peers.