Results for: be the change
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Faking It Episode 202 Recap: I Am A Homo. A Homo SAPIEN.
This week on Faking It, Girls Night becomes “Lots of Girls Night”!
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Lesbian Obesity Study Misses the Point: We Don’t Care If We’re Fat
The NIH has spent millions to find out why lesbians are more often overweight than straight women. But is it a matter of public health, or a product of the accepting nature of queer culture?
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My Little Sister Fights The Patriarchy Like A Girl
As a teenager, I reeled from the shift in the how society now viewed me: as a collection of body parts for anyone and everyone to comment on. Today, watching my teenage sister on social media gives me hope.
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5 DIY Wellness Recipes for Your Next Sick Day
Goes well with Netflix marathons and pajama pants.
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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Will Sext You The Correct Number Of Kisses
Sexting, the patriarchy, lesbian sex haiku, a guide to (and some erotica about) eating pussy and more.
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Laverne Cox on Her Emmy Nomination, Music Video and Fighting for TWOC: The Autostraddle Interview
I talked with the flat-out amazing Laverne Cox about everything from Emmy reactions to deconstructing transgender tropes in a John Legend video to dealing with intersections of racism and transmisogyny. It was awesome.
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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Sexting With Only Emoji
The music that made you figure out sex existed, successful long-distance relationships, sexting using only emoji while you have a headache and also your period and more.
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Lesbian Badass Megan Smith Named Obama’s Chief Technology Officer, Rejoice!
It’s just awesome to be able to point at a very visible, recognizable and powerful government position that is based on having a massive amount of technology knowledge and say “LOOK WE EXIST LOOK LOOK LOOK.”
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“Mother Blaming” Is Bad Journalism, Shaky Science
The cumulative effect of media coverage on pregnancy paints a pretty warped picture: that pregnant people are the number one health threat to their future children.
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Drawn to Comics: Six Comics I’m Excited About for Fall 2014!
With Autumn approaching and Summer coming to an end, many new comics are getting ready to start up. For this week’s Drawn to Comics, I’m going to highlight six titles that I’m excited to take a look at in the next few months.
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Emojli Is Here, Probably We Should All Download It
I received a text from my fiancée with just the word “EMOJLI.” The caps were hers, not mine. But they do reflect how I felt. Maybe the caps are also mine, then. Maybe they are also everyone’s.
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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Will Soak The Sheets
Porn soundtracks, sex work and labor practices, making your own strap-on harness, OkCupid’s social experiments and more.
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Supreme Court Rules “Free Speech” More Important Than Safe Access to Abortions, Healthcare
The Supreme Court has cast out a Massachusetts law that created a 35-foot protest-free zone around abortion clinics, citing freedom of speech rights for the protesters.
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How To Have Lesbian Sex: Anal Edition
The only barriers I want when I have anal sex are safety related.
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Rebel Girls: The Writing That Made A Movement (Or A Bunch of Feminism’s Primary Sources)
Women’s studies, as a whole, is a discipline grounded in words. These pieces are some of the words that ground the entire thing.
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The Disappearing Act: Fighting Disordered Eating as a Masculine-of-Center Woman
I got a taste of something I had never known — shopping in the men’s department afforded my body the opportunity to take up the amount of space it actually takes up.
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George Fox University Updates Trans Student Housing Policy, Remains The Worst
In response to the general freakout over the school’s discrimination against Jayce M, George Fox upped the ante on its discriminatory cluelessness. He and other trans students can live on campus in gender-appropriate dorms — if they get genital surgery.
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After Yet Another Trans* Woman’s Murder, Change Is Coming for Hate Crime Sentencing in DC
Last year Deoni Jones was stabbed to death at a bus stop. This year, at her vigil, her family asked some tough questions about why the murder was not prosecuted as a hate crime. Mayor Vincent Gray responded to those questions.
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Getting Back to Geek Roots with 10 Little Known Facts About Xena: Warrior Princess
Xena and the Xenaverse may be long dead, but lesbians can survive for years on subtext alone.
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Surprise, Study Confirms Hiring Discrimination Against LGBT People Is Real
This study draws attention to precisely the issue President Obama aims to address with his forthcoming executive order banning LGBT employment discrimination by federal contractors.