Results for: be the change
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Lumberjanes Launches TODAY! Grace Ellis and Shannon Watters Are Spilling Their Guts
I figuratively locked Grace Ellis and Shannon Watters in a dark room and made them talk a little bit about their creative process in celebration of today’s AMAZING launch. Also: preview art!
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Noelle Stevenson’s Webcomic “Nimona” Is Filled With Science, Shapeshifting And Cool Hair
Noelle Stevenson, the co-writer of the upcoming series “Lumberjanes,” is the creator of the fun, creative and brilliantly written and drawn webcomic “Nimona” about a super villain and his shapeshifting teen girl sidekick with awesome hair.
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Dear Queer Diary: Journaling While Left-Handed
Adventures in non-normative handedness.
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Top Five Alternative Cheeses Nearest to This Vegan’s Heart
It’s helpful to know which fake cheeses are so delicious you can eat them straight out of the box, and which are merely bright orange globs of gelatinous sawdust that even the dog won’t touch.
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Jacqueline Nantumbwe Must Stay: Why the Current UK System For LGB Asylum Seekers is Broken
The UK Border Agency has detained Ugandan asylum seeker Jacqueline Nantumbwe, placing her at risk of abuse and deportation unless she can “prove” she’s gay.
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Rhymes with Witches: Forget Backstabbing, Gilmore Girls’ Paris Geller Fights With Wit And Brains
Though her name is not Gilmore, Paris Geller is the true break out character in this gem of a series, as one of the most heart wrenching and complex portraits of a teenage mean girl.
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That Time I Got Paid $50 To Make Out With My Girlfriend For A Protest Video
“After three hours of waiting, the director sits us on the couch amongst three or four other couples. We stare deeply into the camera. I hype myself up. Look into the camera like it is a lover, NO, a hamburger! Look at the camera like it is a hamburger.”
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Anonymous Sex Toy Review: Rabbit Habit
Though this iconic toy is just as famous for its mixed reviews as it is for its cameo role on Sex and the City, our anonymous reviewer found a very happy ending to her love story with the Rabbit Habit.
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Ten Books For Queers And Feminists To Read This Spring
Ten important queer and feminist books coming this spring.
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Australian High Court Shuts Down New Marriage Equality Law, Gay Marriages Declared Invalid
In extremely upsetting and infuriating news, Australia’s High Court has overturned ACT’s legalization of same-sex marriage.
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Trends This Butch Is Loving: Jogger Pants
Make a note on the back of your hand or the back of your girlfriend’s hand or write this on your cat for all I care: Jogger pants. Jogger pants are the future.
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Read A F*cking Book: 5 Truths About Sex Work I Learned from “Playing The Whore”
It’s not up to just anyone. It’s up to sex workers to define their own destiny.
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Two “New” Poems By Sappho Uncovered and Translated, Prove She’s Still Got It
After having been lost to the world for a couple thousand years, two poems written by Sappho have unexpectedly turned up in London following an anonymous collector’s submission to Oxford.
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Our Willow, Ourselves
Is Willow’s insistence on identifying as gay, not bi, a biphobic or bi-erasing gesture? Or is she actually something separate, something more progressive and interesting than bi erasure – a strong, dynamic character whose sexual orientation is genuinely fluid?
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State of the Struggle: First Come LGBT Legal Protections, Then Comes Marriage
The new Momentum Report from the Movement Advancement Project proves that gay marriage is just the tip of the iceberg. How is the LGBT community doing when it comes to everything else?
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Edie Windsor Recognized On Time’s Person of the Year Short List
In turn, the “matriarch of the gay-rights movement” released a statement recognizing the gay community. Recognition all around!
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We Need Help: Seeking New Fashion Writers
If you’ve ever felt like Autostraddle could be the perfect place to put your words about fashion, style & beauty for a smart queer lady audience, your time has come!
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I’m Going To Homeschool These Damn Babies
I finally feel safe enough to imagine the big queer family I never had. A home where gender is an option, not an obligation, where parents can apologize to each other as well as to their kids and where long, ongoing conversations about race, power and privilege exist.
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DeAnne Smith and Hot Yoga
“This is a ridiculous amount of sweat. I know this is hot yoga and everything, but how is there even this much sweat in me? How is this possible? This seems unsafe. Is this normal? Maybe I’m peeing. Am I peeing? How can there be this much sweat in a person? I think it’s pee.”
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Strong Female Protagonist Is The Perfect Superhero Comic Even If You Don’t Like Superheroes
“Strong Female Protagonist” is a wonderful superhero comic that places more importance on the humanity of it’s characters than their super-humanity. It tells the story of Alison Green (formerly Mega-Girl) as she tries to negotiate post-superhero life.