Results for: be the change
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High Femme: Demystifying Lady Smokers
“But much like masturbation and other “personal relaxation” methods, it’s pretty obvious that most women are smoking marijuana, but not talking about it. There is a cloud of shame permeating these issues for women, where there is absolutely none for men.”
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Queer Outfit of the Week: Fall Foliage Walk
Dig out your favorite summer dress and revitalize it for a nice long autumn stroll in the crunching fallen leaves!
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Things I Read That I Love #97: I Lost My Way, Looking For A Flashlight
Topics include Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Cinnabons, mugshots online, young women in porn, Norman Rockwell, Nina Simone, “white girls” and so much more!
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15 Fears I Faced in 2013, With a Little Help From Autostraddle
I’ve been afraid to do so many things. This year, thanks to Autostraddle, I looked those fears in the eye, took action and started living my life the way I want to live it.
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Anti-Trans Radical Feminists Team Up With Conservatives to Harass Colorado Trans Teen
The Pacific Justice Institute issued a press release titled “Nightmare: Teen Boy Harasses Girls in Their Bathroom, Colo. School Tells Girls They Have No Rights.” The problem with all this is that the story is largely fabricated.
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IRS Decides Married Gays Can Finally File As Married: Let’s Talk Taxes!
Hey, Ladies Married To Ladies, the IRS now recognizes your marriage! Let’s talk about what this means (and how to do your taxes from here on out)!
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Wilder Hungers: Grey Weather and Olive Oil Cakes
The weather needs to get better because I have made a fall to do list that must be accomplished.
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A Prairie Homo Companion: Weather Watch Gender Presentation Fashion Crisis
I like to think my gender identity changes with the seasons. In the winter I can channel my great Canadian butch, and in the summer I can femme-it-up.
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Big Companies Wanna Make Big Change For GLBT Youth, Ellen’s Mom Is Involved
Johnson & Johnson, Walgreens, and PFLAG are teaming up to help stop bullying against LGBT youth.
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Not Just A Flicker: The Rise Of The New American Left
Grassroots leftist organizing is happening all over the U.S. right now, across generations, race, gender, sexuality and class.
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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Wants You To Take Off Your Shirt
This week on NSFW Sunday: living apart, what sex does/doesn’t do to your private parts, how to talk dirty in bed, when to change your sheets after sex and more.
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On Navigating the Unexpected Death of a Queer Friend
“You may have lost someone who may have meant different things to you than they did to other people, but at the end of the day you know who they were to you, and perhaps what they meant to your community of queers.”
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Trail Life USA Tries to Blaze A New Trail For Anti-Gay Scouting
Luckily there are other scouting alternatives for your kids!
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Things I Read That I Love #98: Everything Means Nothing To Me
Topics include Elliot Smith, larping, snuff, Lean In and facebook feminism, the lived history of Concord MA, child sex trafficking, growing up Chinese in West Van and so much more!
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Lez Liberty Lit #34: I Know Where Waldo Is
This week in lit: trans* poetry, finding Waldo, reviewing books in GIFs, Doris Lessing, closeted characters, riese reads “the circle” and more.
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Read A F*cking Book: Canary
Canary, a debut collection of queerish short stories from Nancy Jo Cullen, is all about the everyday. And the weird.
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22 (Mostly Weird) Superpowers I Wish I Had When I Was A Kid
9. The power to make people allergic to any food/cure any allergy.
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More Than A Minimum Wage: What Recent Protests Tell Us About Women’s Economic Justice
“This is the beginning of a war on an economy that makes certain people vulnerable so a select few can survive.”
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Star Trek N00b, Episode 2: The Man Trap (Oh My!)
“Okay, I had a fangirl moment once George Takei appeared on screen.”
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Straddler On The Street: Lydia
Lydia is a queer femme who writes an acclaimed personal style blog, Style Is Style. She’s been featured in BUST and Rookie but this is the very first official interview where she’s talking about coming out and being queer! Also her style is AMAZING. Prepare to fall in love.