Results for: be the change
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Sunday Funday Is About Gay Moms, Charice’s Sense of Self, and Everything Related to the Golden Girls
The New York Times is swearing off the “h-word” (again), Charice is really happy, a bunch of puppies are longing for treats, and Michigan’s gay moms have a new reason to smile.
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Queers for Economic Justice Closes Its Doors Thanks to Lack of Economic Justice
“QEJ will always be a philosophy. If you are a queer, you can be for economic justice. …You don’t have to have a 501(c)(3).”
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Idol Worship: The Women of Woodstock
This week marks the 44th anniversary of Woodstock, the music festival that changed the world.
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Nicaraguan Lesbians Make Visibility Dreams Come True With “Cuando Las Lesbianas Hablamos”
In Nicaragua, homosexuality is decriminalized, but queer people have few legal protections. This project provides a new avenue for people to understand the experiences of Nicaraguan lesbians.
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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is A Spooning Switch
How to fingerblast, air sex, how to start using sex toys, bathroom hook-ups and more.
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Fancy Fun Femmes: The Bra Guide
Sugar and spice and lace and bra-fitting and lingerie and everything nice.
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Pretty Little Liars Recap 504: The Cause of Death is Murder, Duh
Everyone: ALI NO
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Glee Episode 516: “Tested” Will Test Your Endurance For An Episode Without Lesbians
This week on Glee, Blaine ate a lot of cronuts and everybody got tested for STDs!
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Notes From A Queer Engineer: Yuna Kim And The Physics of Figure Skating
Today we pause, momentarily, for a half-step sideways into the intersection of two other awesome international spectacles intermittently fraught with weird political controversy: science and the gayest Olympic sport since the IOC dropped wrestling.
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Star Trek N00b, Episode 20: Tomorrow is Yesterday (And We’re No Longer N00bs!)
The very last Star Trek N00b recap!
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NFL Teams Might Be Less Homophobic Than You Think
While early reports seemed to indicate that out NFL prospect Michael Sam wouldn’t have the warmest welcome into professional football, recent statements by league executives and a new poll show that that things might be better than we thought.
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Stand By Me: Historically Black Churches and LGBTQ Allyship
The question of homophobia in historically Black churches is way more nuanced than conversations about Christianity and queerness often take into account. If the Black church and LGBTQ movements joined forces, they would be a force to reckon with.
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Obama’s State Of The Union Respects Women, Wants You To Have More Money
If all goes according to his plan (and it very well may not) this will be a year of leaps and bounds for many of the Americans who felt left behind in 2013. Women, people of color and those living in poverty could all benefit from Obama’s plans to use executive orders rather than waiting on a gridlocked Congress to pass anything to his desk.
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You Should Go: Autostraddlers Are Meetin’ All Over The World for Pride!
Now, I come bearing the ultimate gift: a selflessly and tirelessly compiled list of future Autostraddle Pride meet-ups that has all the information you’ll need to hop on this crazy train of life and ride it right into Hangin’ Out With Cool Strangers Or Maybe Event Old Friends station.
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Orange is the New Black 202: Thank Lesbian Jesus It’s Taystee’s Episode
Litchfield, O Litchfield! How hast thee fared? Didst thou miss me? Much as I have learned over time to not only tolerate Piper but also genuinely enjoy what she brings to the show, a Piperless Litchfield is somehow the best Litchfield yet.
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Pretty Little Liars 419 Recap: Shadow Play, or One With Paige Finally
In this episode, we, for no explainable reason, go back in time to the 1940s. But Emily and Paige “climb trees,” so I’m fine with it.
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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Tell Me What You’re Listening To So I Can Stop Listening to Bruno Mars
Welcome to this amazing OPEN THREAD in which you can deliver me from Bruno with your probably more hip music taste. Get in here! Tell me about your life! Show me your face! Or your pet. Whatever.
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Also.Also.Also: Uh Huh Her is Googling Stand Your Ground Laws and Other Stories We Missed This Week
Marissa Alexander needs to be free, Google needs to stop blocking the word ‘bisexual,’ and you need to see this cute pic of Shane.
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Mozilla CEO Brenden Eich Resigns Over Prop 8 Controversy, Mozilla Remains Pretty Cool
Earlier this week, OKCupid joined the outrage at Mozilla’s new choice of CEO Brenden Eich by asking their users to uninstall Firefox. Yesterday, Brenden Eich resigned.
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Loretta Saunders Found Dead; Epidemic of Violence Against Canada’s Indigenous Women Continues
Loretta Saunders, Inuk woman writing on missing and murdered Indigenous women of Canada, found dead in New Brunswick.