Results for: be the change
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Facebook Wants You To Do You, Adds New Non-Binary Pronoun and Gender Identity Options
Facebook has released an update that allows users to move beyond binary pronouns and the male/female gender options they’ve had since the social network launched a decade ago. Here’s how to change your settings.
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This is Beyoncé/Nicki Minaj Femslash
“And how is it that no one texted me that Nicki Minaj was in my hotel wearing denim cutoffs, 7″ black Louboutins, and a cutoff tank with my face on it? I’mma fire everyone on my security team.”
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Rebel Girls: The Illustrated (And Quite Condensed) History of Women’s Studies
Women’s studies. What the f*ck is that? And how the f*ck did it get that way? Let’s find out!
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The Big Reveal
“In fact, the strain of hiding my illness would likely have caused me to break down with even more frequency. How would she have coped with those dysphoric, hallucination-ridden breakdowns — and how would I have dealt with her uneducated reactions?”
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How Racism, Not Shonda Rhimes, Created The Angry Black Woman
“For whatever reason, Stanley assumes that these contemporary characters are living in the same post-racial world that many people prefer to pretend we’re already living in. It’s within the confines of this utopia that these characters appear to be nothing more than sexually charged Angry Black Women, instead of oppressed minorities living in a white man’s world.”
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Fool’s Journey: Good Cards, Bad Cards
I was doing tarot readings at an event a few weeks ago, and, as always happens, someone came up to me saying ‘I hope you’ve taken all the bad ones out!’ I don’t buy this good cards/bad cards idea — it’s not compatible with my belief that there is a tarot card or combination of cards for every human experience.
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It’s Time For People to Stop Using the Social Construct of “Biological Sex” to Defend Their Transmisogyny
The Chicago Sun-Times recently republished a hateful and ignorant article claiming that Laverne Cox is a man due the “biological reality” of sex. Unfortunately, this essentialist, simplistic and just plain incorrect understanding of sex is often used against trans people.
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Top 11 Gayest Things Lucy Lawless Has Participated In
The shiniest things you need to know to enhance your (already excellent) crushing on Lucy Lawless.
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If You Like This, Then You’ll Like That: Queer Your Tech’s Epic 100th Post
If you liked this app, then you’ll like that app. Think of it as a 100th birthday present from me to you.
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Barbie Doesn’t Earn Feminist Empowerment Badge for Becoming A Girl Scout
By creating this “For Girls” section of their site and featuring the Barbie products, the Girl Scouts have made a dramatic shift in their branding and in the language they use to describe their girls, which up until now has been pretty conscious of making the “girl” in Girl Scouts mean a lot of different things.
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Why Advertising Directed At People of Color Doesn’t Land For Me
STOP TRYING TO SELL ME CHEERIOS!
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Most Important Ugly: My Chemical Romance and Other Majestic Monsters
“Putting yourself first and living for yourself and your opinions is generally attributed to selfishness, which is seen as negative. But you need that most of the time, to survive, because you can’t please everyone and you have to live with yourself first.”
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Rosie O’Donnell, Ellen, and the OITNB Cast Are Having Mimosas in Colorado This Sunday Funday
I have a historic amount of good gay news for you today, and you won’t wanna miss a thing.
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Sober in the City: An Atheist Walks into AA
“The fellowship said I was thinking too hard about it, that I was stubborn, and that I was not willing to admit that there were forces bigger than me. What they didn’t get was that I did believe there were forces beyond my control, powers bigger than me. Let’s just take gravity as one of many examples. I just don’t believe that praying to gravity or the radiator or the ocean would cure me of my alcoholism.”
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Beyond Definition: On Queer Black Love and My Kaleidoscope Identity
“My queerness was exactly the durable and malleable fabric that brought me here to this love. I am so grateful to finally have this powerful Black revolutionary in my life, I am thrilled about the quickly manifesting potential of our combined energy that nurtures creativity both for ourselves, our kin and our community.”
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More Than Words: On the Word “Gay” and Definitive Dilemmas
Which should change first — society or the dictionary?
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25 Bowls of Ramen That Taste Way Better Without the Spice Packet
You and your instant ramen have a beautiful future together.
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Most Important Ugly: Becca, Bekah, Angels and Masks
“You can take makeup off or pile it on, and it can mean so much to you and how you see yourself. That’s powerful. That’s very potent. That’s witchwork.”
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It’s Sunday Funday’s First Gay Pride — And Then, A Bear in a Hammock
President Obama is puttin’ his rainbow mardi gras beads on, Rachel Jeantel has a diploma (bitches!), and also: A BEAR IN A HAMMOCK. IMPORTANT.
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Top Ten Brunch Hacks That Will Save Your Life
“Fried chicken fixes most problems, especially ones involving sad soft toast.”