Results for: be the change
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Why the Dust Must Remain Unsettled: This is India’s Stonewall
“It is a pivotal moment to reignite the movement, pick up the momentum, and strike again. Yes, we will not have it easy but meaningful, sustainable changes in history have never come easy.”
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Sober in the City: Surviving Pride Without Liquor
Here are some tools I employ to protect my sobriety while still allowing me to participate in all of the fun. If you’re concerned about being a sober queer at Pride this year, some of these tools may come in handy.
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Sunless Sea Knows The Difference Between Presentation and Gender
And also it’s mega-challenging. Like for real, mega-hard. My love for this game far outweighs my skill at this game.
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Protesters Take Stage at Health Conference Because NY’s Trans Healthcare Failure is Inexcusable
#TransHealthcareNOW reminds New Yorkers that trans people need real action.
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30 Ways To Treat Yourself With Dark Chocolate
Dark chocolate makes life a little more bearable.
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Playlist: Sunrise On The Mountain
Morning is a glorious time. Morning with you weirdos is even better.
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And Now, Every Character From “Orange Is The New Black” As They Appear On “Law And Order”
There is no tradition more time-honored than playing the role of a random New Yorker who discovers a corpse in Central Park on an episode of Law and Order.
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Pretty Little Liars 512: Summer #fAtalfinale Liveblog Situation OF DEATH
Someone is going to die on tonight’s “Pretty Little Liars” mid-season finale! Who will it be? Maybe it will be you! But probably it will be Mona.
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Making It Out Alive: Theodora and the Lesbians of Horror
“After a while though we stopped thinking we were just reading this film with a gay lens (like I can’t help but do with Kiki’s Delivery Service) and actually looked it up online — where all the facts come from — and there it was. Theo is a lesbian.”
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New Thor Will be a Woman! Five Other Heroines Who Have Taken Up a Man’s Title
“It’s pretty common for a younger man to take up the mantle of an older male superhero, a younger woman to take up the mantle of a female hero, or even for a younger woman to sort of take up a male hero’s mantle but then feminize the name. What’s happening here is much less common. While Thor is the most high-profile example of this, it’s not the first. Here are some of my favorite examples of this happening before.”
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Cards Against Harassment Creator Better at Recognizing Sexism Than Institutional Racism
One woman’s well-intentioned crusade to end street harassment has some racially insensitive side-effects.
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This Thing Bigger Than Us: Sexuality, Religion and Wellness
No matter the hate we have faced, we can reclaim our spirituality in a world where many people would call us sinners.
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25 Berry Delicious Ways To Eat Berries
So berry excited for berry picking season!
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What’s Your “Root?” Autostraddle Editors Remember What Brought Them to This Website for the First Time
For a myriad of reasons, we all somehow ended up clicking over to this very special place called Autostraddle Dot Com at some pivotal point in our queermo lives, and now we’re all still here making it happen! In this roundtable, our editors and writers share their “root” — the posts that brought them here for the first time.
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Taking Over the World One Controller at a Time: The Good News About Queer Games
Like playing video games? How about the queer, genderqueer and trans people who make them? Here’s how your queer worldview is carving out more real estate in the world of gaming.
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Drawn to Comics: Lumberjanes #4 has Hipster Yetis, Friendship High-Fives and Archery
The Lumberjanes are back! This time they have to deal with mysterious forest apes, campers from the near-by boy’s camp and a whole lot more. We also exclusively have the complete, official playlist from this issue!
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25 Ways to Make Your Kitchen Bloom: All the Edible Flower Recipes
All floral everything.
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Orange is the New Black Episode 210 Recap: The One with All the Flashback Secks
Wherein in Alex Vause returns and we all collectively wet our pants.
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Hauntings and Banishings: Loss and Rage for a Queer Adoptee
“Whether or not you are out in the world, being queer and belonging to a community of marginalized folks (even if it’s a community you only align with in a spiritual or distanced way) has its own problems with feelings of enoughness and the disenfranchisement or everyday trauma of living with an identity that is consistently questioned or belittled.”
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Completing Your Motherf*ckin’ Dissertation In A Week: The Kit
THINK OF HOW GOOD IT’LL FEEL TO RETURN ALL THE LIBRARY BOOKS.