Results for: be the change
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Style is Style: Put Some Pants On!
“Gazing at my reflection, I was dumbfounded. Could it be? Could I really be wearing JEANS?”
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Never Shop At Hobby Lobby Again: A List Of Alternative Craft Stores Both Chain and Indie
There are currently 628 Hobby Lobby stores in 47 states and we never, ever, ever have to shop there again. With this list, you won’t even miss it, I promise.
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Bra Tips and Picks for Ladies with Huge Racks
This meeting of the International Hot Chicks With Large Racks Society is hereby called to order.
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What is Agender? Five Things You Should Know
This will be familiar territory for many of you (and that’s great!), but for anyone who isn’t as well-versed, let the learning begin!
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Also.Also.Also: Queer People Are Organizing in Tech and Other Stories We Missed This Week
We need more queer people in hip-hop and fewer queer people in prison.
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10 Most Unstoppable Women Ever
Stories of ten incredible women who have overcome everything from racism to gravity to frostbite in order to push us all forward.
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Your CSA Box Must Be Eaten: 19 Ways to Make That Happen
I bet you’ve never even heard of salsify. Me either.
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We Thought We Had The Voice Forever: In Memoriam of Maya Angelou
“For me, as a black, lesbian, masculine-of-center woman, I thank her for showing me how to make my invisible self visible.”
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Laverne Cox Returns to “Katie”, Shows How to Do a “Teachable Moment” Right
“A part of me thought about making this article just be a list of Laverne Cox quotes from this interview because she says that many brilliant things. Where Cox was able to turn the conversation around and get in some great talking points last time, this time she was given free reign to talk about important issues for a full half hour.”
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26 Things to Dip Your Chips In, You Wild Animal You
What even is cooking? How does it work? You heat something, and then what? Nope, too hard. Really the only food I feel confident about being able to pull together and consume is some sort of thing I can put into a bowl and mindlessly dip chips into.
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Turkey’s Plan to Segregate LGBT Prisoners is Bad, But So Is the USA’s
Prisons in both Turkey and the United States separate LGBT individuals from the general population, but this form of segregation hardly solves the issue of violence in prison facilities. In fact, it may further endanger LGBT prisoners.
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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Your Five-Step Guide to Telling Me Everything
HAY, GIRL OR OTHERWISE IDENTIFIED HUMANS! It’s Friday, which means it’s time for you to both make a desire map and share your entire life history with me in this open thread. Get in here!
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Home Decorating Tips for the Trend-Conscious Bookpocalypse Participant
Oh my stars and garters. You’d better find your pearls and start clutching, because winter is coming and the death of print is upon us. Here are some home decorating tips to help you stay on-trend during bookpocalypse.
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Things I Read That I Love #125: To Understand As A Gut Reality The Phenomenon Of Rulers Setting The Ruled Against Each Other.
Topics include the whiteness of MFA programs, multiple sclerosis, fireball whiskey, social science, Gmail, rape culture in Universities and Ellen Willis.
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Recent EU Court Ruling Might Make Life Less Miserable For LGB Asylum Seekers
Last week’s ruling by the European Court of Justice is being hailed as a “landmark” change for LGB asylum seekers – that is, if you’re willing to overlook how asylum seekers in the EU are regularly detained, demonised and deported.
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Upon Going Home: Review of “The Messiah Complex”
“The Messiah Complex is radical because it takes on concepts of beauty, class differences, gender roles, and navigates love and life in a trans or gender-nonconforming body, all within a Black context. Never before have I seen so many nuanced themes in an all Black cast.”
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A Queer Fat Femme’s Adventure To Find A Bra That Fits
“It was daunting to go in for a custom fitting but I’m a convert, now. I definitely feel way more confident in my choice of size and style.”
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Social Skills or Stereotypes? What My Autism Classes Didn’t Teach Me
“Social skills classes are particularly bad places to learn gender and sexuality lessons because they combine direct instruction with the neurotypical authority of telling us how to act. Socialization groups seem safer, but sometimes, gender and sexuality discrimination still subtly invade them. Where do we go from here? I believe the solution is multi-tiered.”
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Make A Thing: Sacred Queer Heart Shrines
I wanted to create these mini shrines devoted to the badass bitches, feminists, queers and women of color, who’ve paved the way for us, so that we can be inspired and empowered by them everyday.
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Climate Change You Can Believe in, Even if These Guys Don’t
A crazy pastor thinks that all your scissoring caused Hurricane Sandy, and Romney thinks FEMA is a bad idea. And you thought Halloween was the scariest thing happening today.