Results for: be the change
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Literally Queer Your Tech With The Lesbians Who Tech Summit
This is the first ever summit for queer women in tech. It’s from February 27th-March 2nd in San Francisco. And! There’s a discount code for Autostraddle readers.
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Annie Mok’s “Screentests” Tells Stories About Candy Darling, Personal Trauma
Annie Mok’s tremendous short comic Screentests tells gorgeous stories about coming to terms with trauma and gender and is absolutely gorgeous to look at.
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Mourning Madiba: South African Queers Grapple With An Uncertain Future
The rainbow nation is a country of contradictions and complexities when it comes to its queer citizens, and as LGBT South Africans mourn Mandela they also worry about the future.
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Marriage Isn’t A Coupon You Have to Redeem
“Marriage is like a chlorinated community pool that we now get access to. I think that people forget that queers have been swimming in the ocean the whole time.”
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Playing for Our Team: The 7 Out Gay Olympians at Sochi
There are only seven, and all of them are women. Let’s meet Team Gay!
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Five Girls You Will Bring Home In Your Twenties
“Her dog is super cool, though. You think you might still be sleeping with her because her dog is so goshdarn awesome.”
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Straddler On The Street: Jessica
Jessica has lived in London her whole life but currently attends Cambridge University where she studies English Literature. She spoke about Effing Dykes, intersectionality, mental health issues, and much more.
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Evan Rachel Wood Bisexual and Nikki Reed were Two Girls in Love During ‘Thirteen’
Evan Rachel Wood divulges and discusses the crush she had on Nikki Reed while filming “Thirteen” during a Q&A to honor the film’s tenth anniversary.
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“Fun Home” is Relatable, Brilliant and Paving the Way for Women Musical Theatre Writers
Not only does Fun Home put a lesbian center stage, the lesbian character is a fully developed, three dimensional human being with thoughts, feelings, and complex issues.
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Straddler On The Street: Lynare
Lynare is a 42 year old dapper lesbian living in Miami, Florida and she told me about seducing her roommate in the Navy, what dapper style means to her, and how the community has changed over the past twenty years.
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Rhymes With Witches: Making Frenemies With Pretty Persuasion’s Kimberly Joyce
Come take a walk on the wild side (switchblade not included) to explore the evil anti-heroine from Pretty Persuasion and why I love her.
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More Than Words: Tomboys R Us
“Is all your delite and joy in whiskying and romping abroad like a Tom boy?” This post is for you.
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“Faking It” Episode 101 Recap: Let’s Be Lesbians
In the first episode of “Faking It,” two girls are mistaken for a lesbian couple and they sort of just run with it.
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Everything Hurts All The Time
“I hated my body and punished it, and it hated me and punished me back. Is that what happened? That’s the thing about getting sick the way I got sick: nailing it down.”
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Krissy Krissy Builds It Up Brick by Brick: The Autostraddle Interview
Were you actually discovered in a karaoke bar? “Yes, I was.” What were you singing? “Like the Way I Do’ by Melissa Etheridge.”
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With “Portable Homes,” Domestic Violence Survivors Reclaim Their Bodies
The second book to come out of the “Attention: People With Body Parts” project invites survivors of domestic violence to heal through discussions with their own body parts.
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Read A F*cking Book: Denice Bourbon’s “Cheers!” Is All Booze, Burlesque, and Big Dreams
“Writing a Rita Mae Brown ‘Sudden Death’ or Jenny Schecter ‘Lez Girls’ was never an option.”
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Liquor In The House: Everything You Need For A Bar At Home
In which we stock a bar that is meant just for you and yours.
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Janet Mock Returned to Piers Morgan Live Tonight: Here’s What Went Down
After being misgendered and disrespected by Piers Morgan last night, Janet Mock returned to his show hoping to get through to him on how hurtful and offensive he was being.
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Captain’s Log: Deep Sea Diver
Sometimes, I like to give you a theme to describe all the glorious new artists I’ve assembled for you; this month, the best I can tell you is that they’re all songs you might want to dance around like a lunatic to. Let’s get to it.