Results for: be the change
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1 Queer Girl + 10-Day LGBTQ Film Festival + 20 Tons of Popcorn = These Movies You Need To Watch
I am in an extended food coma from 10 days of eating nothing but fast food and concession stand snacks. Send help. But first, check out these lesbian romcoms, queer comedies and dramas.
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Lez Liberty Lit #52: Lazy Reading Days
Zadie Smith, superlatives, reader’s block, Samantha Irby, public domain reviews, queer book fairs and more.
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No Tampons, No Diva Cup, No Problem: Two Earth-Friendly Tampon Alternatives
Yes, Virginia, there are choices beyond Diva Cups, maxipads and tampons.
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So You Want to Put A Ring On It: Engagement Ring Shopping 101
A resident Engaged Queer Person helps you figure out how to you start looking for/purchasing an engagement ring!
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Gloria Casarez, Organizer, Activist and Total Badass, Dies at 42
“The work she did at City Hall enabled us to position Philadelphia as the greatest LGBT city in the country.”
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“Fake Gamer Girls” Make Up 48% of Gamers, Play More Video Games Than Teenage Boys
A new survey shows that adult women are one of the largest demographics when it comes to who plays video games.
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“Fun Home” The Musical Is Officially Heading To Broadway, Thank Goodness
After months of rumors, after winning all the Off-Broadway awards you can win, after a Pulitzer Prize nomination, “Fun Home” the musical is FINALLY transferring to Broadway! YESSSSSSSS!
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Warner Bros Working on a Supergirl TV Show; Here’s Who It Should Star
Warner Bros. has announced that they are working on a Supergirl TV show written by out TV writer and producer Ali Adler. Although no actors are attached yet, I’ve got some ideas of who I’d like to see.
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What the Criticism of Lingerie-Clad Women in Tech Got Wrong
Hold your horses, unicorns, and angry pack of wolverines — there’s more to this campaign than you may first assume.
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If They Build A New Queer Bookstore, Will You Come
Listen up all queermos within striking distance of Philly! There’s a new bookstore coming your way — a very very queer bookstore with a café and art and all sorts of amazing things. And it’s being built from the ground up by community members Makella Craelius and Puppett.
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It’s Bisexual Awareness Week! Here Are Five Ways To Celebrate
The first ever Bisexual Awareness Week aims to celebrate what makes bisexuality and bisexuals great, and honor our accomplishments throughout history and today.
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BPM: Everybody
What if we just talked about ALL THE SONGS AT ONCE?!
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Autostraddle’s Favorite LGBT TV Characters Of 2014
There were 128 queer lady characters on TV this year, if you can believe that. It’s a brand new world.
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Pretty Little Liars Episode 518 Recap: Them!
Emily and Talia, sitting in tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G!
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Rebel Girls: Defining Privilege, Oppression, and Everything In Between
In which we learn about the basics of privilege, oppression, and what they have to do with each other.
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Texas GOP Walks The Plank of Its Own Platform As State Shimmers With Purple
The GOP is digging its heels into the sand as the tide turns. But hateful platform language and fist shaking will not stop the ocean. Texas is too big to smother with such small ideas.
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Black Advocates Address Stigma, Discrimination Around Breastfeeding and Black Motherhood
“Black motherhood and bodily autonomy has been historically undermined and often robbed from Black women in numerous ways. From this country’s first visions of us as wild oversexed Jezebels able to easily produce the next generation of slaves and doting mammies, caretakers and nannies for our slave-master’s children, we haven’t been seen as individual and capable loving nurturers to children.”
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Quaker School Wins Religious Exemption to Exclude Trans Student From Campus Housing
African American trans student Jayce M has lost an appeal to receive on campus housing at George Fox University after the Department of Education granted the school a religious exemption from Title IX requirements.
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Ten Truly Terrible Pieces of Advice Offered To and About Bisexuals
Emily Yoffe isn’t alone! A lot of advice columnists have terrible opinions that they’re excited to share with bisexuals.
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Also.Also.Also: Mary Lambert is Writing Children’s Books About Women in STEM and Other Stories We Missed This Week
LGBT people are leaving some of America’s famously gay neighborhoods but cool projects are highlighting feminism, queer families in children’s books, and masculine of center fashion.